Venue Description

This spacious family house, which has been adapted on the ground floor, is perfect for guests with limited mobility. Hightide is superbly located in Southwold and has recently been redecorated throughout to provide a spacious family holiday home for up to 9 people throughout the year.

The house has 4 bedrooms and 2 living areas with the large kitchen and dining area on the ground floor, plus a separate, wheelchair-accessible sitting room. A second living room is up on the first floor and includes a sea-facing balcony, designed to take advantage of the view over the Putting Green and the iconic Southwold Pier. All four bedrooms are spacious and well furnished with new Simba mattresses provided for extra comfort.

The single ground floor bedroom is provided with full disability features of a Volker bed with height, tilt and angle adjustability, plus a Medicare pressure relief mattress. There is also a Felgains Invacare Ceiling Hoist (looped version) along with the tracking from the bedroom to the shower room. This wet room has a shower, optional shower table and shower chair and WC with side bars for those who may have accessibility issues. The hand basin is small for normal use but is designed to be at the correct height for wheelchair users and enables the wall-mounted shower table to fold down when required.

The other ground floor bedroom has a full sized hand basin with mirror and shaving socket. It is a family-sized bedroom, having a double bed and a set of adult sized bunk beds. The house has parking for three cars and a garden that wraps around the property, with a wheelchair accessible pathway, ramped decking and a side gate to keep the garden enclosed.

Accommodation: Entrance: from parking area for one car on Pier Avenue Porch with entrance lobby with storage and hanging space, entrance into the hall with painted floorboards throughout and large storage cupboard.

Bedroom 1: Single Volker bed with full adjustability, Felgains Invacare ceiling hoist (looped version), chest of drawers, wardrobe, bedside table and lamp; blackout blind and curtains, views over the garden.

Bedroom 2: Family bedroom with 4'6" double bed in alcove, adult bunk beds, chest of drawers, wardrobe, full sized hand basin, shaver socket, shoe rack, blackout blinds and curtains.

Shower room: Wheelchair accessible doorway, WC with standard mobility pull down bar, grab rail, small hand basin for accessibility, mirror, shaver socket, shower table, shower and curtain, tiled floor, emergency pull cord.

Sitting room: Wheelchair accessible doorway into this spacious room with two sofas and 2 armchairs (one adjustable/electric), Smart TV with DVD player, large picture windows over looking garden, Putting Green and Southwold Pier.

Kitchen/Dining room Large L shaped room with kitchen, good storage, breakfast bar with stools, table and chairs for 9 people, sitting area with two armchairs and picture windows, large spiral staircase to first floor with gate at top; sliding glazed door on to deck and gravel garden, with decking slope from parking area into house for easy access. Gas hob and separate oven with separate grill, 2 separate fridges, dishwasher, microwave, toaster, electric kettle, radio.

First floor Living room Open plan living area with french doors to balcony. Folding furniture provided for balcony, stored indoors. Three leather sofas and various armchairs, table and four chairs, lamps, wood burning stove and guard, polished wooden floors, ottoman with boxed games, lego provided in storage boxes, books, Smart TV with DVD player and Wifi router. Doors to bedrooms:

Bedroom 3 - Master bedroom King sized bed, bedside tables and lamps, wardrobe and chest of drawers, cot, trouser press, door to ensuite, carpet flooring. Ensuite bathroom with bath with electric shower over, shaver point, WC and hand basin with mirror, tiled floor.

Bedroom 4: Accessed from living area down 3 steps, 2 single beds with new Simba mattresses, chest of drawers and lamps, carpet flooring.

Outside: From Pier Avenue, one parking space and level paved access to porch and entrance lobby to Hightide. The level paved path continues into a private garden area with mixed planting at the front of the house and to a fence and gate through to the second garden and entrance to the house via the glazed french doors. This second entrance to the house is accessed from North Parade Gardens by car or on foot into a parking area through a five bar gate. This area provides parking for two cars, a south facing decking area with some planting and seating and is secure for children. A utility room is also available with a separate entrance from the decking area and houses a washing machine, tumble dryer, freezer, BBQ and storage. Sorry - no pets as the owner is very allergic to pet hair.

Accessibility

The property has a level paved parking area at the entrance from Pier Avenue. The property has a level tarmac parking area at the front of the property which is accessed from North Parade Gardens. A car can be driven on to the paved area at the Pier Avenue entrance to the house for easy access for people, pushchairs and wheelchairs and for the unloading of suitcases and groceries. A car can also be driven on to the tarmac parking area at the front of the house with easy access up a timber ramp to sliding French doors into the kitchen/living area. The level access to the front door is via a storm porch with hanging space and this is well lit by natural light in the day time. A light on the ceiling of the storm porch and on the front of the porch enables the front of the house to be well lit at night. Access to the garden from the kitchen/living area is via the sliding French doors on to a level decking area to the south and west of the house. This space is large with sufficient space for a barbeque and garden furniture. There is decorative planting around the edge of the garden which is fenced plus a decorative pebble area. Turning to the left from the French doors access from the decking area to the parking area is via a timber ramp. The garden at the front of the house is also accessible from this area where a level path meanders around planting areas to the parking area at the Pier Avenue entrance. Inside Level access into a wide and spacious entrance hall leads you to the open plan kitchen/living area and the ground floor sitting room. There is a shower room with toilet and wash basin conveniently situated off the entrance hall. The single bedroom with adjustable bed and ceiling hoist plus the family bedroom are also situated off the entrance hall. Upstairs A wide metal spiral staircase with timber treads enables access to two further bedrooms and bathroom and the spacious second sitting room and balcony. The master bedroom has an ensuite bathroom. Access to the twin bedroom is from the sitting room via 4 steps which are carpeted. The sitting room has a wood burning stove which has a safety guard. Access to the balcony is through outward opening glazed doors. The balcony has glazed walls to take advantage of the view and to allow day light into the room. The area of the balcony allows for four folding chairs and a small table to be used. Other facilities The house has two televisions, one in the ground floor sitting room and one in the upstairs sitting room and are Smart TVs with audio description facilities. Non allergic bedding Hard wired smoke and heat alarms Two carbon monoxide detectors are provided in the house. They are positioned in the two sitting rooms, and in the utility room, where the boiler is housed. Torches: an induction rechargable torch and a wind up torch are available to guests for use in a power cut or for a quick and safe evacuation of the house.

Toilets

Information about the toilets has not been added for this venue.

Staff

Hightide is a self catering holiday cottage and guests must bring their own staff. There are helpful staff at the Heritage Hideaways office located in Southwold.

Assistance dog facilities

Assistance dog exercise facilities

Sorry - no dogs at this holiday cottage as the owner is severely allergic.