Garden and grounds
There are plenty reasons why you’d want to be outdoors at Crossroad Farm. You loaded up the fridge/freezer with goodies from Trotter’s Farmshop, right? All the more reason to spend the evening in the barbecue area. While your steaks are sizzling, play a little table tennis and keep an eye on the kids playing on the swing and slide set.
Living spaces
Settle back in living spaces lavished with love in a sympathetic restoration that retains the grade II-listed beauty of the stairs, doors and sash windows yet adds plenty of modern touches. Get together on the squishy leather sofas for fire-warmed Netflix nights streamed over the fast Wi-Fi using the password you remembered to bring.
Looking to loll around indulgently in some hot bubbles? The indoor party spa will take 12. When you’re fully marinated, it’s time for some eight-ball pool on the table in the living room, or darts in the games room. Raid the landing cupboard for board games. Whatever you’re doing, stay toasty warm, thanks to the biomass burner.
Cooking and dining
The dining table will take 16, with the pool table close by for youngsters with itchy feet between courses. Or maybe you’d prefer to eat al-fresco in the barbecue area? Either way, you’ll love the bells-and-whistles kitchen and gas barbie. For a special treat, call up our professional friends from At the Dinner Party, By Molly or Willows Catering.
Shop for essentials at Central Stores in Sherburn or take deliveries from all the main supermarkets. Get deli stuff from Sally Middlewood’s, meat from Trotter’s Farmshop, and your fizz from We Love Wine. Takeaway night? Why not? Pizzaland, China China and The East lead the way.
Tuck into Whitby scampi or chicken Parmesan at The Coachman in Snainton. Consider breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea or dinner at The Farrier in Cayton, a five-star establishment that will feed you all day long. Or dig into small plates such as sticky chicken, ox cheek bao buns or Manchego croquettes at FortySix in Malton.
Eat out in the lovely beer garden at The Star Inn in Weaverthorpe or eat traditional Asian favourites at Spice 4 You in Pickering. Head into York for a little table theatre at Casa Brazilian Rodizio, for Mediterranean-Turkish at Yakamoz, or Italian at Buongiorno. Or get serious about gelato at Groovy Moo.
Bedrooms
Close by the Yorkshire Wolds Way, the odd red kite swoops in search of prey, but it’s nothing that’ll get in the way of a good night’s rest. Crossroad Farm sleeps up to 16 in seven lovely bedrooms. All but bedroom five come with room for a cot.
Bedroom one on the ground floor provides a kingsize bed and en-suite bathroom. On the first floor, four bedrooms share two bathrooms. The first floor is divided by two staircases. Bedroom two is a kingsize, bedroom three a twin and bedroom four a kingsize. Bedroom five is another twin.
Up in the attic, under original beams, bedroom six sleeps four in two kingsize beds and bedroom seven sleeps three in a kingsize and a single. There’s a shared bathroom.
What people say
Puffins, piglets and pudding beer
Get a vitamin-D fix in Dalby Forest on the Gruffalo Trail or Go Ape. Explore puffin-busy cliffs at Flamborough Head or bottle-feed the cuties at Piglets Adventure Farm. Amble along The Shambles in York. And bring your clubs for great golf courses at Ganton and Wolds Way. Make a Yorkshire Pudding Beer at Malton Brewery your 19th hole.
