At Russet Hall, the full-size football pitch is just the start. There’s more? Oh yes. Acres more.
Bring your dog to wander the kitchen gardens, ten-acre apple orchard, and beehives. Bring your kids for the two-storey treehouse with slide and swings or fun on the trampoline. And bring your sense of hearty fun for the newly surfaced tennis court and outdoor pool, heated to 26 degrees between April and September.
You’ll book this grand country house because you’re getting the family together, because you’re reuniting, because you’re celebrating, because your stags or hens will love it, or just because. And if open fires, a porticoed entrance, high ceilings, and sash windows were all Russet Hall offered, you might be perfectly happy. But it’s not.
Bag a book from the library and slide out through the French doors to the terrace and tennis court. Get together in the media room for movies or X-box gaming on the huge screen. Gather around the karaoke machine, alongside the cocktail bar. Take your after-dinner drinks in the drawing room. Pound the treadmill and punchbag in the gym. Play table tennis, basketball and darts in the
games room.
Make every meal magnificent with the four-oven Aga, and Fisher and Paykel fridge-freezer, stocked up from Sainsbury’s and Wellington farmers’ market. Dim the bulbs on the dining-room chandelier, pour the Prosecco and pass the bread basket. Or eat out on the sun terrace with prime cuts from Jeremy’s butchers on the coal barbecue.
Lazy night off? Of course: you’re on holiday. Book DineIndulge, our in-house chef service, for a multicultural special celebration or fully catered break. Or consider a takeaway from Pink Garlic for Indian, Munchies for Turkish, Baan Thai, or Sabeez for chicken, chicken and more chicken.
Drive five minutes or take a cross-country walk to eat out at The Queen’s Arms in Pitminster for homemade salmon fishcakes or slow-cooked lamb and aubergine rogan josh. Enjoy grilled sea bream fillet or chicken ballotine at The Greyhound in Staple Fitzpaine. Or head to The Lamb and Flag for crispy pork belly or venison steak.
Tuck into a taste of the East at Mei’s Buffet Restaurant, with dishes from China, Japan, Malaysia, India, Singapore, and Thailand. Try Cosy Club in Taunton for its grand setting, rustic interior, and feel-good menu of panini, burgers, and tapas. Or step inside a slice of authentic India at highly rated Mattancherry.
There’s no short straw among the nine bedrooms at Russet Hall (plus two more in the stable flat). Snuggle up in luxury cotton sheets and wake to birdsong and the heady aroma of the Somerset countryside.
Bedroom one (Royal Russet) provides a superking bed with TV, en-suite with deep bath and lovely views, dressing room, and space for a cot. There’s even a chaise longue and sofa. Black Apple, meanwhile, offers a kingsize bed with a balcony over the front porch. And Ashton Bitter is an en-suite superking with cot, chaise longue, chair, and sofa.
Somerset Red gives you a splittable superking bed plus two sofa beds, while Pippen is a kingsize with fireplace and armchair. Golden Knob offers a superking bed, love seat, feature fireplace, and en-suite with separate bath and shower. An interconnecting door to the next bedroom makes it perfect for families.
Hoary Morning provides a splittable superking bed with armchair, feature fireplace, and garden views, while Shoreditch White gives you a superking bed, armchair and stable views and Dabinett a superking or splittable twin beds.
The stable flat offers a superking or twin option bedroom and a kingsize room, both with countryside views and space for two additional zedbeds. With it’s own lounge, kitchen and dining area, this makes a great space for a large family.
You can provide all the period features in the world, but they’re not going to impress kids with energy seeping out of their socks, although Russet Hall does present an impressively never-ending game of hide-and-seek across its myriad rooms. Luckily, this sprawling Somerset gem also comes with games galore.
Bring the whole family on holiday, and don’t forget the dogs, because Russet Hall sleeps up to 26 in the main house and stable flat. That means kids will feel right at home, because you’ll be bringing home with you. Pick from 11 stunning bedrooms with splittable kingsize beds, or bag the family suite with interconnecting bedrooms.
The fun begins in the huge garden. How huge? There’s a full-sized football pitch, and that’s before you even get to the ten-acre apple orchards and beehives. Stay outdoors in the warmer months to swim in the pool, heated to 26 degrees, play on the two-storey treehouse and swings, jump around on the trampoline and fire up your forehand on the all-weather tennis court.
Head indoors to bag a book from the library and choose from table tennis, basketball, darts, and board games in the games rom. Children of all ages will look forward to the karaoke bar, chilling with movies in the media room or challenging worthy opponents on the big screen with the X-box console. Fuel up with food from the Aga and do it all again tomorrow.
