Calder Cottage (and Turner Cottage next door) are Emble’s beautiful holiday cottages on the Northumberland coast, in Embleton. A place to relax, reconnect and indulge in the stunning, panoramic views of Embleton Bay and Dunstanburgh Castle.

Relax

This sweet and simple one bedroom cottage was reborn late in 2018 and per Conde Nast Traveller, “perfectly complements the ascetic beauty of the Northumbrian coastal landscape it sits in”.

The wood-burner and painted half panelling throughout invite you to take time for yourself indoors, before inevitably being lured outside again.

Meanwhile, meander through the little library of local and thought provoking books, left here and there, plus games and movies, should you desire a screen.

Views

Looking down the hill onto Embleton Bay, the cottage is rather overwhelmed by the views from the large windows in the living room and kitchen. Everyone loses time gazing out to sea at Calder.

Whether from the kitchen, the deck or the love seat at the foot of the garden, all you can see is Emble - sheep, cattle or crops - down to the cracking links golf course between us and the sea.

Our most recent addition to the cottages is a pair of ‘Reading Rooms’. The original outhouses have been reimagined with floor to ceiling windows and built-in seating - perfect little hideouts to hunker down and connect with the landscape, whatever the weather. Guests like to have breakfast and coffee here to start the day.

Out and About

One foot after another is all you need at Calder.

Head down Sea Lane to the much loved and lauded crescent of Embleton Bay, the crown in over eight miles of uninterrupted National Trust beaches, then just decide, north or south? left or right?

Turn right for the centuries ruined and JMW Turner favourite Dunstanburgh Castle at the southern end of the Bay, and then head on to cute Craster, home of the kipper and good eating. Turning left takes you past the Emblestones rocks, around the point to the vaguely Hebridean square of fisherman’s cottages and the paragon of a pub: the vaunted The Ship, Low Newton.

Dawn or dusk, winter or summer, you cannot go wrong.