JHale Oak Farm has obviously been a well appointed family home now perhaps a little tired in decor and equipment. However it provided a good value, ideal space for our family to meet up over half term week.The house is in a beautiful rural situation. We enjoyed walks in the surrounding countryside and a trip on the local restored canal.Ken was a most helpful and accessible host even advising us how to lower the Aga temperature in a heat wave! Many thanks.

We had a great stay here as a group of 10 friends over Easter weekend. Lovely area to cook, eat and play games, with lots of nice walks close by. The house is charming and quirky in the best way.

The host was welcoming, there was plenty of space and it was good value for money.

Ken was really amenable to our slightly chaotic arrival time logistics (we had people travelling from across the country, and traffic caused it's issues), which we were really grateful for.The house itself offered the perfect space for what we needed but was SO cold on arrival. Ken had put the heating on and lit a fire shortly before we arrived but the house was far off warming up and many of the radiators weren't particularly effective (we suspect bleeding some of them would have helped but there was no radiator key available when we asked). We had a good few hours of shivering, despite keeping doors and curtains etc. closed (as advised) before the house reached an acceptable temperature.Everything feels a bit tired - the towel rail in the bathroom was in a pretty dire state, for example. While some vintage features lent charm to the property, some fixtures/fittings are in desperate need of modernisation/updates to make this property deliver what it could/should as a place to escape to.