Rural historic thatched home

Historic House homestay in North Wessex Downs

Key info:

• 3-4hrs per day, 2 days off per week
• Self catered
• Gardening/ Decorating / general property maintenance
• Lambourn Downs, UK

Accomodation:

The volunteers will have a private bedroom and private en-suite bathroom to yourselves. Shared kitchen space with us.

What we need help with:

General building and outdoor maintenance, any time of the year. Internal plaster repairs and painting (if experienced). Painting outdoor fences and sheds, perhaps helping replace roof tiles on garage (if experienced, this would be a priority request and we could look at a longer stay duration if someone was available to do this). General garden maintenance: planting of vegetables and weeding.

Who we're looking for:

Positive attitude and willingness to help with daily tasks Practical minded

Your schedule:

Flexible hours, around 3-4 hours a day, 5 days a week Free time to explore the local area

Local area

Happy to collect Guest from Hungerford or Didcot train stations on arrival and departure.

Set in the heart of the Lambourn Downs horse racing district, our home is in a rural location but the village of Lambourn is a 20 minute walk away with a couple of shops, church, dentist and barber and hairdresser. Also two pubs. Public transport is limited to a couple of buses a day to Wantage and Newbury, with a wider network from there including Oxford which is around a 1 hour journey by bus.

This is a beautiful area to explore on foot with the oldest White Horse in the country just a 1.5hrs walk away, with stunning views. The oldest road, the Ridgeway runs East and West once you get to the White Horse. A very pretty part of the UK.

Interested?

Send us a message and tell us:

• A little about yourself
• Why you'd love to join us and help us out with our various projects
• Any experience you have with the project help that we’ve listed above

We’re looking forward to meeting like-minded people who are interested in staying with us.