The house was located conveniently for my purposes and was nicely decorated, however I have to say that given the other positive reviews I was fairly disappointed in my stay.
I arrived within the pre-arranged time window to find that Claudia had already left and some of her tenants would let me in - I ended up standing around on the doorstep for ten minutes while this was arranged. Not the end of the world but not a great start when you''re tired and hungry after a long working day.
The room itself was well decorated and the bed comfortable, however the heating took forever to come on and the bed could do with extra blankets. The following day I was awoken by the other tenants fairly early (not their fault but the whole house has solid floors and the sound travels). I grabbed the towels provided to discover that they were really damp (I'm assuming they were washed and just hadn't dried properly) and went for a shower.
The bathroom was fairly clean but let down by towels from other tenants monopolising the heated rail and the shower floor being full of hair and body scrubber things. It's not nice to have to move or clean others mess in order to then take a shower yourself. The water pressure was great and the shower nice and hot but I then had the really unpleasant experience of trying to dry myself with a cold damp towel.
As I wasn't working until the evening I headed out for breakfast and then came back to do some admin in the room - it was really cold as evidently the heating is turned off during the daytime. I sat at my laptop working, wrapped up in my jacket and hat.
That evening I returned from my job around 10pm, keen to get some rest due to an early start. I was then kept awake for about twenty minutes by the other tenants shouting and laughing in the kitchen downstairs (as I said sound travels in the house). They eventually shut up just as I was in the middle of getting dressed to go and tell them to be quiet.
It should really be made clearer that the house is for students/staff of the equine school. It's not like sharing a family home, which I have found to be far more enjoyable. None of the things I've described are massive problems on their own but I left feeling that my custom was very much taken for granted and very little attention to detail was shown to ensure I had a good stay. I won't be back.