31/07/2017
Brand new listing of historic building recently renovated to provide holiday accommodation. Halliday's Folly, named as such by locals a hundred and fifty years ago, is a unique building built in 1850 by Thomas Charity Halliday, a stonemason and corn merchant. Thomas Halliday restored and repaired churches all over the country and was in the habit of returning home with fragments of medieval stonemasonry which with which he decorated his workshop. Back in the day Mr. Halliday was a successful man employing some 47 men and 4 boys. His son, Samuel Fancourt Halliday was a one time mayor of Stamford.
The restored Folly has been converted into two spacious holliday cottages. The first will accommodate six guests. It has two bedrooms each with ensuite facilities, a large kitchen, living room with sofa bed creating additional sleeping space with a separate shower room. The second is a spacious studio apartment with fully fitted kitchen, bedroom area, living room with sofa bed, shower room. Cottages can be rented separately or can form one large unit which will sleep ten people. The outside space makes the best of this iconic building, also providing a private garden, patio areas and adequate off road parking.
Greetham is a working village three miles from Rutland Water, eight miles from Stamford and surrounded by beautiful and interesting places to visit such as Barnsdale Gardens made famous by TV gardener, Geoff Hamilton. The village boasts two award winning pubs, The Wheatsheaf and The Plough. Both offering excellent menus together with a warm and welcoming atmosphere.
