Residences
Each of our residences offers three en suite bedrooms of the highest quality sleeping six in luxurious comfort and practicality. Our large open plan living areas include large kitchen and dining areas with a lounge areas that benefits from log fire and large flat screen TV.
Award winning design, stunning open plan living and sustainable build are only a few highlights of these superb residences. From the start we knew we wanted to create something special. A new kind of luxury residence that offered a different experience for travellers to this hugely popular National Park.
We wanted to design residences that blurred the boundaries between the living area and the luxury provided by nature. The huge expanse of glass positively invites our guests to explore nature and allows the magnificence of the surroundings to be as much a part of the luxury experience as the exquisite attention to detail we offer internally.
We wanted also to capture the luxury of space and freedom in the design. By making our residences open plan and by choosing furniture that blurs the division between living, eating and cooking we sought to make the whole experience inclusive and conducive to holidaying as a group.
Facilities
- quipped kitchen
- Washer/dryer, iron and ironing board and hairdryers
- 32" flat screen TV, DVD, radio/CD player
- Egyptian cotton bed linen
- Natural toiletries
- Centrally heated throughout
- Decked area with outdoor furniture
- Wildlife ponds (children must be supervised)
- Woodland trail
- Private and shared parking facilities
- Cots, highchairs and sterilizers are available on request
Green technology
Sustainable design is fundamental to Natural Retreats' development and we rigorously assess the design alternatives, building in 'green technology' features wherever possible, ensuring that they offer practical solutions, providing real benefit and are also cost effective.
- Timber framed residences - made from sustainable woodlands
- Minimal foundations - maintaining a living habitat beneath each residence
- Evergreen sedum (living plant based) roof
- Recycled insulation - made from recycled glass fibre and other recycled materials
- Natural spring water - from our own spring used for drinking and showers
- Biomass heating - in each residence using local wood
- Super efficient dual rate boilers - providing supplementary heating and hot water
- E Solar Glazing - maximizing solar heating and minimizing heat loss
- Rainwater harvesting
- 100% renewable energy sources
- Low energy lighting
- Klargester high performance natural sewage treatment system
- Recyclable waste disposal bins and composting wormeries
- Natural Retreats - Yorkshire Dales has attained Zero Carbon Status
