Lechlade as a town is very quaint with lots to offer for a weekend stay.
Sadly this was a real disappointment. The weekend was supposed to be a family gathering for grandfather’s birthday but when we arrived we realised the house was an unfinished project which is far from ready to be rented to paying customers. On arrival, there was a large plastic notice attached to the frontage of the house on one of the doors which wasn’t a great visual welcome. Once inside there was a large piece of cardboard blocking a doorway to the study area with large PRIVATE written on it, so in actual fact there is not a study area available even though it is included in the property details. This area housed the heating controls so we were searching for a long time when we wanted to warm the house a little. There were broken mugs, cracked glasses, dirty cupboards, ill fitting cabinets, visible ant traps, a leaking kitchen tap with a small bowl underneath which would overflow regularly so we were expected to keep emptying it. Dangerous kinks in rugs (not ideal with elderly relatives), badly sealed bathroom equipment (toilet and sink), brown drips down windows, dusty books and games, missing radiators in bathrooms with protruding pipes out of the wall, a fowl smelling unplugged fridge which we made the error of opening, a very dusty and dirty Aga (instructed not to use - which we were happy to abide by but offended by the dirt), broken taps in the bathroom and a dirty and over frozen freezer. The owner refused to give us any compensation. Awful.