A housewith a characterof its own.

In the garden, three free-roaming rabbits that let themselves be stroked. A big, silent aquarium to watch for ages. The budgerigars in the courtyard, chirping away. A little library to read from, paper and corners for drawing. A TV with Sky Kids and Netflix for the hottest afternoons. The pedestrian centre is 100 metres from the door — children can walk there without taking the car. It isn't a hotel room where children get bored after ten minutes: it's a house with things to discover in every room.

Two double bedrooms and two sofa beds in the living room: grandparents, parents and children can all stay, or two families travelling together. The big living-room table seats everyone for dinner; the garden and the historic centre are a few steps away. For anyone who wants the feeling of a shared holiday — the kind where you meet at breakfast, head off each at your own pace, and come together again at dinner — this house is made for it. There is just one bathroom: with six it isn't always smooth, but many of our guests come back anyway, because being together matters more than splitting up into two separate apartments.

Young people come who want to be together — a birthday, a hen do, a wedding nearby. Groups of women, or old friends, come too, organising a weekend all together. Sleeps six, a single key, the garden and the centre five minutes away. It's an alternative to six separate hotel rooms — more intimate, and at a far lower cost per person.

Often families with children passing along the A14, between northern Italy and the south, or between the Adriatic and Rome. They arrive late in the evening and leave the next morning: a single night, not a real holiday. And yet many of them have become regular guests — because even for one night, the difference between an anonymous room facing a car park and a house with a garden, rabbits and a space of your own is something you feel. We accept bookings for a single night too: just write to us.