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Scandi-luxe eco-retreat in the heart of Somerset 🌿 Relax in our private wood-fired hot tub with stunning Cheddar Gorge views. 🐕 Dog-friendly, sustainable & stylish - the perfect Mendip Hills escape. ✨ Book your 2026 stay at www.thestudiocheddar.com

28/10/2026

The quiet is the most coveted thing in any retreat. 🌿

Anyone who hosts for a living learns this early. The hot tub, the linen, the view all matter because of the stillness they make room for.

When we built The Studio, we designed it around one idea: remove what distracts, keep what restores.

The hot tub fires before dusk.

That order matters. By the time the sky over the Mendip Hills goes dark, the water is ready and the wood smoke drifts across the terrace. There is nothing left to arrange and nowhere else to be. Stillness is built into the routine.

The skylights do the rest.

Solar powered electricity. A fresh air system that keeps every room breathing. Wood smoke on the evening air. These eco-conscious choices are what make the quiet honest.

We are in Draycott, five minutes from Cheddar Gorge and five minutes from nowhere in particular. The location is part of the design.

Stillness is the amenity. Everything else serves it.

Come and feel it for yourself. Book direct for the best rate at www.thestudiocheddar.com

Sam & Alex

26/10/2026

Every couple who stays with us finds their own rhythm.

But some rituals come up again and again.

We designed The Studio for exactly these moments. Seven of them keep returning in the messages and reviews our guests send us, and in the smiles we see at checkout. So we ranked them by how often you mention them.

1. Wood-fired hot tub at dusk
2. Private terrace with a Mendip Hills view
3. King-size bed, premium linen, total quiet
4. Slow mornings in the Scandinavian living room
5. A walk along Cheddar Gorge, hand in hand, five minutes from our door in Draycott
6. Cooking together with local Somerset produce
7. Stargazing from the terrace after dark 🌿

Each one is already here, built into the space or waiting just down the road.

Which one would you start with? Share it with the person you would bring. 👇

Book your romantic stay direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

23/10/2026

There is a particular expression that only arrives after a long day out in Somerset.

Eyes soft, cheeks still carrying the air, the faintest smile that does not need explaining.

We see it often here in Draycott.

Cheddar Gorge is five minutes down the road. Guests head off in the morning and come back hours later with a kind of quiet that sits somewhere between tired and full. The limestone cliffs, the trail, however long it took. No itinerary could have planned it.

The walk is part of it. The look at the end is what stays with us.

Walking layers still on. Boots somewhere near the door. Nothing polished about it, and nothing needs to be.

Behind them, the warm glow of The Studio, and the wood-fired hot tub waiting on the terrace for later.

We built this place to be that threshold, between the Mendip Hills and proper rest. The landscape does most of the work.

It is the whole point of being here. 🌿

Begin and end your day with us. Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

21/10/2026

That slight hesitation before you hit enquire? We know it well. 🌿

The question you are quietly holding is almost always the right one to ask us.

"Can we check the minimum stay before we commit?"

It is a calm, reasonable thing to say, whether to each other over the kitchen table or straight into an enquiry.

We are Sam and Alex, and the easiest part of planning your stay is asking us something before you commit.

Minimum nights, availability windows, what works around a bank holiday: bring all of it.

The Studio sits in Draycott, five minutes from Cheddar Gorge, with countryside views and a private wood-fired hot tub. We built it as somewhere we would want to stay ourselves. We would far rather you arrived knowing exactly what to expect than talked yourself out of a trip you needed.

Drop us a message, or book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

19/10/2026

There is a particular calm that settles over the kitchen here in the early evening.

The board out. The knife resting. A wedge of proper Somerset farmhouse cheddar and a small cluster of grapes sitting unwrapped on the worktop, the last light still warm across the wood.

This is the micro-moment before dinner, when a self-catering kitchen comes quietly to life and preparing food becomes the first pleasure of the evening rather than a task.

We chose every fitting in this kitchen ourselves. The worktop height, the quality of the knives, the depth of the sink. A space designed to feel good to be inside.

And Somerset makes it easy. Extraordinary food producers within a short drive of Draycott: proper farmhouse cheddars, local charcuterie, freshly baked bread from the village. The board you build here is the whole point.

Self-catering was never meant to feel like a fallback. It was meant to feel like this. Unhurried, intimate, and entirely your own.

The evening hasn't started yet. Everything is in its right place. The only thing left to do is begin. 🌿

Come and cook with the best of Somerset on your doorstep. Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

16/10/2026

Somerset's history runs deeper than most visitors expect.

The question we get asked most, before almost anything else, is simple: where do we start?

We made this list for exactly that moment.

These are our seven most-recommended Somerset heritage stops. They are ranked by how often we point guests toward them, and how often those guests come back to The Studio saying thank you.

1. Cheddar Gorge and Gough's Cave. Five minutes from our door in Draycott. If you only do one thing, do this.

2. Wells Cathedral. The medieval city we send every single guest to.

3. Glastonbury Abbey. Ruins with genuine historical resonance, and never a disappointment.

4. Wookey Hole Caves. The underground counterpart to Cheddar, and far too often overlooked.

5. Somerset Rural Life Museum, Glastonbury. Agricultural heritage done beautifully.

6. The Bishop's Palace and Gardens, Wells. Perfect for a slower, quieter afternoon.

7. Axbridge Medieval Market Square. Our hidden local gem, and the one we always save for last.

Cheddar sits at the foot of the Mendip Hills and has been inhabited since prehistoric times. You feel that age in almost every stop on this list.

This is the list we wish someone had handed us when we first fell in love with this corner of Somerset.

Now it's yours. 🌿

Plan your heritage trail and book your stay direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

14/10/2026

There is a moment on the terrace when the Mendip Hills fill the whole frame and everything else goes quiet.

We built The Studio Cheddar with this view on the other side of the door. Not as a feature to list. We believed that waking up to these hills on a bright autumn morning was the kind of thing that actually changes how a day feels.

There is a particular moment out here, mid-morning, when the light flattens and the hills take over. The grasses go gold at the top. The tree cover darkens below. The sky sits enormous above it all.

Nothing performs. Nothing needs to.

We have watched guests step outside and just stop. No phone out. No rush to document it. Just the quiet recognition that the landscape they hoped for is exactly the one they got.

That stillness is what we designed around. It is why the terrace faces the way it does, why we kept the sightlines open, why the mornings here feel like they belong to you. 🌿

Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

12/10/2026

Sunlight through the glass. Fresh air in every room. Nowhere you need to be.

When we built The Studio in 2021, we wanted somewhere genuinely luxurious that didn't cost the landscape around it. Scandinavian principles guided every choice: quality materials, natural light, open views and a peaceful quiet.

Solar power does much of the quiet work here. On bright Somerset days, the sun powers the space while you're out walking Cheddar Gorge, five minutes down the road.

Passive solar design means the building makes the most of natural light and warmth. The rooms feel bright and calm without working hard to get there. ✨

Our MVHR fresh-air system brings clean air gently through every room while holding on to the warmth. You may not hear it. You'll just notice how easy the air feels, and how settled the space is.

If you arrive in an electric car, there's EV charging waiting too. Plug in, and forget about it until it's time to leave.

Later, the wood-fired hot tub on the terrace. Steam rising. The Mendip Hills going dark around you.

Sustainability without a single compromise. It is, quite simply, somewhere we would want to stay ourselves. 🌿

Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

09/10/2026

Sometimes what a family needs most is simply permission.

Permission to slow down. Permission to let the children lead. Permission to arrive somewhere beautiful and not have a single thing planned.

We built The Studio Cheddar for exactly that feeling.

You are allowed to spend a whole morning doing nothing. The terrace is there, the kettle is on, and Cheddar Gorge will still be magnificent when you are ready for it.

You are allowed to let the children lead for a day. The Mendip Hills and the gorge trails have a way of making young explorers feel genuinely capable.

You are allowed to want comfort and adventure at the same time. A warm, well-designed space waiting for you at the end of a long walk isn't a contradiction.

You are allowed to book somewhere small and still feel like everyone has room to breathe. The Studio was designed with that balance in mind.

You are allowed to use the hot tub after the children are asleep. That quiet hour under the Somerset sky belongs to you too.

You are allowed to come back here next year. Most people find they want to. 🌿

Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com

07/10/2026

There is something deeply satisfying about muddy boots at a threshold. The walk is behind you, and everything ahead is warmth.

We love this part of a day here at The Studio.

You come back from the cliffs or the valley floor, and the space is exactly as you left it: calm, warm, unhurried.

Cheddar Gorge is five minutes from this door. The walk takes what it takes from you, and coming back to a space this considered is what restores it.

The Mendip Hills ask something of you. The Studio gives it back.

That exchange is the whole rhythm of a stay like this.

We built this place to be a proper base, not simply somewhere to sleep. After a long day through the gorge, the return matters as much as the departure.

Book direct at www.thestudiocheddar.com for the best rate. 🌿

Address

5 South Close
Draycott
BS273TW

Telephone

+447751734093

Website

http://www.thestudiocheddar.com/

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