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Reviews

9.4 out of 10, Loved by Guests
2 bedrooms1 bathroomSleeps 51 sq m

Popular amenities

  • Washing machine
  • Dryer
  • Pet-friendly
  • Outdoor space

Explore the area

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Chichester, West Sussex
  • Place, Chichester Harbour National Landscape
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, Chichester Harbour
    ‪3 min drive‬
  • Place, Goodwood Motor Circuit
    ‪12 min drive‬
  • Airport, Southampton (SOU)
    ‪46 min drive‬

Rooms & beds

2 bedrooms (sleeps 5)

Bedroom #1

1 Double Bed

Bedroom #2

2 Single Beds

1 bathroom

Bathroom #1

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Spaces

Deck or patio
Balcony
Garden

About this property

Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms

Set in the countryside village of Birdham, Spence Cottage is in the perfect place to easily access the historic city of Chichester or West Wittering beach. On the road down to our famous golden sands you can easily skip the traffic and head over to our favourite sandy spot in no time. Close also to the sailing village Itchenor Spence Cottage is an excellent base for avid sailors or those who just want to be close to the south coast.
Spence Cottage has everything you need to effectively self-cater during your stay. The kitchen comes equipped with cooker, fridge, freezer, microwave, washer and dryer and lays open plan via a breakfast bar to the dining and living area.
The cottage has been decorated to a very high standard and the modern comfy living area is a peaceful space to unwind after a long day exploring ! Why not open up the tall French doors to the garden area and make use of the table and chairs for a spot of something fizzy.
Spence Cottage has two good sized bedrooms. One double and one twin bedroom with a family bathroom set between the two with bath and shower.
The cottage comes with two car parking spaces so there is ample room for couples travelling together or a family.

Birdham has a vibrant sailing community and Chichester Marina is within walking distance. In addition, the nearby sailing village of Itchenor can be accessed via a beautiful walk and the area is perfect for cyclists. One of the best sandy beaches in the south of England is only a few minutes away in West Wittering, which is also a haven for windsurfers and sun bathers. Birdham itself is a very pretty village with a variety of properties and it is well served by a good village shop.

Just to the north of the village is the famous cathedral city of Chichester. Dominated by the cathedral, the city centre's character and heritage has been preserved extremely well and it has a wide range of interesting shops and places to visit. The internationally renowned Festival Theatre attracts actors and visitors from all over the world. The nearby Goodwood Estate has both horse racing and its famous motor sports events, including the Festival of Speed and the Goodwood Revival. With so much to do, it is no surprise that this is such a popular holiday destination, but equally people often visit for a quiet, relaxing break

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House Rules

Check in after 3:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 21
Check out before 10:00 AM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
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Events

No events allowed
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Pets

Pets allowed
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted

Important information

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Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
On-site parties or group events are strictly prohibited
Host has indicated that there is a carbon monoxide detector on the property
Host has indicated that there is a smoke detector on the property

About the area

Chichester

Located in Chichester, this cottage is on the beach. Chichester Golf Club and Lakeside Superbowl are worth checking out if an activity is on the agenda, while those looking for area attractions can visit South Downs Planetarium and Science Centre and Bishop's Palace Gardens. Looking to enjoy an event or a game while in town? See what's happening at Goodwood Motor Circuit or Fratton Park.
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Chichester, West Sussex

What's nearby

  • Chichester Harbour National Landscape - 1 min walk - 0.0 km
  • Chichester Harbour - 3 min drive - 2.0 km
  • West Wittering Beach - 8 min drive - 6.6 km
  • Goodwood Motor Circuit - 12 min drive - 13.9 km
  • Goodwood Racecourse - 16 min drive - 18.6 km

Getting around

  • Fishbourne Station - 9 min drive
  • Southampton (SOU) - 44 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Crown & Anchor - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Little Monster By The Bay - ‬4 min drive
  • ‪The Lamb Inn - ‬20 min walk
  • ‪The Beach - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪Chk Ristorante - ‬3 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms pet-friendly?

Yes, pets are allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms?

As of 26 March 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms on 23 June 2026 start from NZ$457, including taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

How much is parking at Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms?

Check-in begins at 3:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Spence Cottage, Birdham - a cottage that sleeps 5 guests in 2 bedrooms located?

Situated on the beach, this cottage is within 1 mile (2 km) of Chichester Harbour National Landscape and Chichester Harbour. West Wittering Beach and Chichester Golf Club are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Reviews are presented in chronological order, subject to a moderation process, and verified unless otherwise labelled.
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Rating 10 - Excellent. 23 out of 35 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 11 out of 35 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 1 out of 35 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 35 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 35 reviews

9.0/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Check-in

9.4/10

Communication

9.0/10

Location

9.8/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

ROBERT W.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
A wonderful stay! Love home with all of the amenities in a great location z
Stayed 6 nights in Sep 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Ian Swan

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Lovely house in a great area.
Stayed 7 nights in Aug 2025
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Fabulous Cottage

My husband and I stayed for a long weekend at Spence Cottage with our dog and had a lovely time. The cottage is spacious, comfortable and has everything you need for a wonderful stay. Birdham Pool and Chichester Marina are a 30 minute walk down the road and the witterings only a short drive. We would definitely stay again!
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Spence Cottage, Birdham

Nice cottage to use as base for your exploring with friendly neighbours. Local supermarket is well stocked. We used local pubs, takeaways and café and all severed good food.
Response from VrboOwner on 10 July 2025
Thanks so much for your lovely review! We're glad you enjoyed the cottage and made the most of the local food spots. Hope to welcome you back soon!
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Vanessa G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Stay in Birdham

Great property very comfortable
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 29 September 2021
Thank you so much for your review, We look forward to welcoming you again!
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Excellent property

Really enjoyable stay in an ideally situated property with excellent facilities. Would be even better with a woodburner in the fireplace for extra enjoyment.
Response from VrboOwner on 23 May 2024
Thank you so much for your lovely review about your stay at Spence Cottage! We are glad you got to enjoy the lovely location and all the facilities at the house. We would love to welcome you again for another lovely stay, thank you for being such respectful guests.
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Susan M.

Couldn't fault this lovely house....

Beautiful character property, perfectly placed for countryside walks and seaside visits. Waitrose and a Co-op are really close by, and we found a few quality restaurants within easy driving distance. Parking adjacent for loading/unloading. Excellent all round. Will book again!
Response from VrboOwner on 7 May 2025
Thank you so much for your lovely review! We're thrilled you enjoyed the location and nearby amenities. We'd love to welcome you back soon!
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Nice cottage even during the winter months.

Great property, well furnished, clean, comfortable and in a good location for the area. Only problem was the mobile signal on both Vodaphone and Tesco Mobile was almost zero the entire stay, not that important as WiFi was good but worth knowing. Would definitely stay again.
Response from VrboOwner on 22 November 2023
Thank you for taking the time to write this lovely review. The phone signal can be intermittent there which is why there is good broadband. I am really glad you enjoyed your stay and we hope to see you again in the future. Henry Adams Holiday Cottages
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Lovely Cottage

Beautifully decorated cottage in a great location to give you access to West Wittering, Bracklesham Bay, Itchenor and many other lovely places on the peninsula. We had such a great time staying here, thank you! Well equipped kitchen and utility room. The customer service was excellent - would highly recommend staying here.
Response from VrboOwner on 15 September 2023
We are so pleased you enjoyed your stay at Spence Cottage. Thank you for being wonderful guests also. Please do visit again when you are in the area.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

John H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

We are enjoying our stay at Spence Cottage very much.

We have enjoyed sitting out on the patio with a glass of wine, although found the traffic noisey. The Cottage is beautiful very clean and well appointed, our agents Laura & Cleo were also very helpful. We would definitely stay here again if in this neck of the woods
Stayed 11 nights in Jun 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 5 March 2020
Thank you for taking the time to write this lovely review. Henry Adams Holiday Lets
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Sabine Z.

Lovely cottage!

We had a very nice week staying at Spence Cottage. Very clean, everything you , lovely tiny garden. Only downside was the traffic noise, but that can‘t be avoided. Short drive to the beach, lovely walks in the area and only 20 minutes drive to Goodwood (we came for the Festival of Speed).
Response from VrboOwner on 19 May 2022
Thank for taking the time to review. We are so pleased you enjoyed your stay. Unfortunately you were there one of the busiest weekends of the year :-) … but as you were staying for The Festival of Speed I hope you enjoyed it! Please do come back again if you are visiting Goodwood next year.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Teri N.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

A terrific week in Spence Cottage

We had a great stay in Spence Cottage. The house was lovely, spotlessly clean and well appointed. Very handy to have a washer and dryer for a beach stay. We enjoyed using the patio as well. Location was very good, a quick drive to East or West Wittering and having the shop next door was a nice feature. The area is not that walkable, so you do need to drive most places. All in all, it was a great house and we would definitely stay again. Thank you!
Stayed 6 nights in Aug 2024
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Chris M.

Good value house in good location

Liked the location of the house, convenient for west Wittering beach and with great walking from base. Salterns way is good cycle way and close. Layout of house is good, pleasant outdoor area also. Negatives: didn’t like the beds, too soft and a little noisy. Wouldn’t have booked a house without a dishwasher, sadly missed that point in advance.
Response from VrboOwner on 28 June 2024
Thank you for your review about your stay at Spence Cottage! We're delighted you enjoyed the location, layout, and outdoor area at Spence Cottage! We're sorry to hear the beds weren't to your liking and that the absence of a dishwasher was inconvenient, though we do make it clear in the advert. We'll take your comments on board to improve our future offerings. We hope to welcome you back in the future!
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Elaine B.

A wonderful week

We had a lovely, relaxing week in Spence Cottage. It was spacious and very well equipped with everything you could need in the kitchen. The heating was easy to operate too! Being on a junction was not noisy, just unusual, and parking on site was so convenient. Spence Cottage gave us a great base for exploring the area and we loved the walks around Pagham Harbour to see the scenery and birds. Plenty of other places to visit on the peninsula and Chichester is only a short drive away. Arundel was easy to get to as well. A well-stocked village shop/Post Office 100 yards away and Little Waitrose in the Shell garage on the corner made for an easy life!
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Observing L.

A very nice cottage, used as a base.

Spence Cottage is a lovely property. Warm, cosy and rustic. A lovely garden area. Very well laid out. A great location for a base, a local shop only a 100 yards away. Petrol station very close by too. Well thought out interior, plenty of room in the spacious bathrooms. Great to have a washer AND dryer too. A very comfortable little cottage. The down sides, the cooker was not clean. We ate mostly takeaways and cold food anyway, so it didn't really affect us too much. But, the one use it did get made me reluctant to use it again. Parking, for the 15 days that we were there, it wasn't too much of a problem. For a couple of days, the space opposite also belonging to Spence cottage was unusable as the neighbours had parked so far over, we would have been hard pressed to have gotten a bicycle parked in there. Again, it didn't affect us as we only had one visitor and I'm sure that if we'd said anything to the neighbours, I'm sure it would have been rectified.
Response from VrboOwner on 15 May 2022
Thank you for taking the time to review Spence Cottage. Please accept our apologies that you didn't find the cottage as you would have hoped, we are always quick to respond to any issues and would have been happy to send housekeeping straight out to you and to have contacted the neighbours had we known about the parking, I think they perhaps didn't realise guests were in the property. We have now had this issue resolved with housekeeping. We hope to see you back again in the future. Henry Adams Holiday Cottages
Verified

8/10 Good

Marcel M.

Liked: Cleanliness, listing accuracy

Verlängertes Wochenende / MM- Meeting

Nettes Haus, jedoch etwas Pflegebedürftig. Für längere Ferien für uns nicht geeignet
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Mary C.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Cozy Cottage

The open space on the main level made the kitchen, dining, and living spaces very functional. The fully enclosed terrace off the living room made the outdoor space very safe for our young grandchildren when they visited. The fully equipped house made our visit very comfortable.
Stayed 11 nights in Oct 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Camilla T.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Great cottage

Lovely stay in little village.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2021
Response from VrboOwner on 10 November 2021
Thank you for your 5* review!
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Stephen G.

Nice cottage/ uncomfortable bed.

We were asked to arrive an hour later for extra cleaning but found a very dirty microwave, a hair band hanging on bed knob, tooth glasses that needed a soak to rid them of dirt. The bed was so uncomfortable with old and scratchy sheets. A shame as this really let it down. Guests should have a comfy bed with hotel grade white bed linen and towels for this level of rental.
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Susan T.

Excellent position for Chichester Harbour

Excellent position for exploring Chichester Harbour. Lovely house, on busy road but noise didn’t bother us. Only negative points were; new double bed needed (pointed out over several years!) and only a shower over bath, though plenty of hot water. More tourist information in folder would have been useful.
From a partner site

8/10 Good

Alan H.

Lovely comfortable cottage

This is our second visit to Spence Cottage and, as we found on our first stay, we found it an ideal location for walks & exploring the area e.g Itchenor, Witterings, marina, Dell Quay. etc as well as Chichestor itself. Our stays have been ‘out of season’ but, knowing the area quite well, we are aware the main road does get very busy during the summer period and might get a bit noisy for some visitors. The cottage itself is very clean and comfortable with a pleasing mixture of contemporary & original features. Facilities are excellent providing everything you might need for a break.
Verified

8/10 Good

Jamie P.

Liked: Check-in, communication, listing accuracy

Convenient for local attractions

Plus points: - The property was smartly presented and spacious - There is a shop just up the road and petrol station next door - Attractive patio area - Close to Chichester for shops. Beaches and marinas nearby, also lots of local eating places Minus points: - The kitchen floor hadn't been cleaned and the recycling hadn't been emptied - It's right on a main road so quite noisy from traffic a lot of the time - Shower had no pressure - better off using the bath - The heating had not been on at all so took a day to get the place warm enough. It's normally timed to only come on in the morning and evening but that's not enough to heat the place in the winter. I think 50/50 as to whether we'd stay there again. It's probably great in the summer when you want the beach or marina, can use the garden, and are not worried about the heating, but it's not a great place for a winter stay.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2020
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Rishi G.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Lovely Cottage

Very nice stay in Spence Cottage. A lovely place to stay
Stayed 6 nights in Dec 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 13 October 2021
Thank you for your 5* review!
From a partner site

10/10 Excellent

Alan H.

A lovely comfortable and spacious cottage

The cottage was very comfortable and contained everything we needed for a week’s stay with a small supermarket a few minutes walk away. The courtyard garden would seem to have been professionally landscaped and provided plenty of seating with a large table. The road outside can get busy sometimes at certain times of the day but we didn’t find any traffic noise a problem. Internally, the cottage has been designed & decorated to a high standard, providing a pleasing mix of the new with the old (e.g original wooden doors). It was light and felt quite spacious, and if anything, the photos didn’t do the cottage full justice.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Jantine d.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy

Summerweek holiday in Birdham

We've had a lovely stay. It's a nice, friendly cottage. De traffic around the cottage is very nearby and loud, so we didn't sat in the garden very much. De wifi was two days out, which my husband and I didn't mind but our teenage children did… When we arrived there's was one bed (the fifth) not available, but after contacting with the agency this was solved very quickly. The instructions were fine, but we received them when we booked (in january) and I didn't remember this instruction e-mail anymore, so when we arrived we forgot how to check in. Maybe it's wiser to give the instruction e-mail just a few days before the actual stay. But further on we can recommend this cottage for a nice summerweek-holiday for family with (teenage) children.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2019
Response from VrboOwner on 13 October 2021
Thank you for your 5* review!

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