It is a lovely house and it is situated beautifully. It is perfectly planned for when the temperature outside is over 30 degrees and everyone is an adult. Unfortunately we stayed with an outside temperature of 15 degrees and two small children. The house is damp and the provisions for heating are completely inadequate or inappropriate, we were constantly chilled and shivering. We are fairly hardy individuals, we live in berlin and came from minus 5 degrees and still we felt much colder in this house!
It really dampened (in all possible meanings of the word) our whole holiday. We could not stay in the house because it was too cold and had to spend all our time in restaurants and bars which made the whole holiday much more expensive. With two small children, one rents a house in order to spend time in it, not juust use it as abase for constant touring trips, which is what we were forced to do to keep warm.
We obviously, with two small children, could not risk putting on the gas heaters, and instead, used the fireplace, which gave us all coughs.
It would be fairer to not rent in this period if one is not prepared to heat the house adequately.