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Reviews

10 out of 10
Exceptional
5 bedrooms4 bathroomsSleeps 10

Popular amenities

  • Kitchen
  • Washing machine
  • Dryer
  • Free Wi-Fi
  • Outdoor space
  • Parking available

Rooms & beds

5 bedrooms (sleeps 10)

4 bathrooms

Bathroom 1

Toilet · Shower only

Bathroom 2

Bathtub · Toilet · Shower only

Family bathroom

Bathtub or shower · Toilet

Wet room

Toilet · Shower only

Spaces

Deck or patio
Kitchen
Garden
Dining area

About this property

Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers

Hare Farm Oast is a very special place to stay. The large unique farm building has been converted and finished to a high standard as a light and spacious holiday home. It sits in the unspoilt Brede Valley with its own half acre plot and extensive far reaching views. We have carefully breathed new life back into the old oast with its three roundels, originally used for drying and storing hops. Using traditional craftsmanship and materials in its renovation, the oast showcases its unique heritage and beauty, whilst providing ease and comfort to those who stay there.
NEW for 2024: 2 x 7kwh EV charger points

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Amenities

Kitchen
Washing machine
Dryer
Free WiFi
Outdoor space
Parking available

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House Rules

Check in after 4:00 PM
Minimum age to rent: 25
Check out before 10:00 AM
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Children

Children allowed: ages 0–17
Gated area outside, plus large lawn
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Events

Events allowed: family gatherings and birthday parties
No all-male groups. Day guests allowed on request
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Pets

No pets allowed
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Smoking

Smoking is not permitted
Only allowed outside property in ash bucket.
Please be super respectful. The Oast is historic, unique and preserved. We ask every guest to to take great care when staying here. Many thanks

Important information

You need to know

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
Parties and events (including family gatherings and birthday parties) are allowed on site. Maximum attendees: 20
Note from host: No all-male groups. Day guests allowed on request
This property uses solar energy
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
Safety features at this property include a fire extinguisher
This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios and terraces, which may not be suitable for children; if you have any concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm that they can accommodate you in a suitable room

We should mention

A car is required for transport to and from this property

About the area

Rye

Located in Rye, this holiday home is in a rural area. The area's natural beauty can be seen at Camber Sands and High Weald, while Phoenix Arts Centre and Rye Castle Museum are cultural highlights. Alexandra Park and Stables Theatre are also worth visiting. Discover the area's water adventures with kayaking, windsurfing and sailing nearby, or enjoy the great outdoors with cycling.
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Rye, England

What's nearby

  • High Weald - 1 min walk - 0.0 km
  • Hastings Castle - 14 min drive - 11.3 km
  • White Rock Theatre - 15 min drive - 11.9 km
  • Bodiam Castle - 15 min drive - 14.9 km
  • Camber Sands - 18 min drive - 17.7 km

Getting around

  • Hastings Doleham Station - 3 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪The Three Oaks Pub - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪Conqurers March - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪McDonald's - ‬8 min drive
  • ‪The Broad Oak - ‬3 min drive
  • ‪The Windmill Brewers Fayre - ‬8 min drive

Frequently asked questions

Is Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much does it cost to stay at Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers?

As of 23 March 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers on 31 March 2026 start from NZ$990, 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 Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers?

On-site parking is available at the property.

What time is check-in at Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers?

Check-in begins at 4:00 PM.

What time is check-out at Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers?

Checkout is at 10:00 AM.

Where is Converted barn / Oast House with amazing views and EV chargers located?

Situated in a rural location, this holiday home is 3 mi (4.8 km) from Carr Taylor Vineyard and within 6 miles (10 km) of High Weald and Great Dixter House and Gardens. Mallydams Woods and St Helen's Wood are also within 6 miles (10 km).

Reviews

10

Exceptional

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10/10

Cleanliness

10/10

Check-in

10/10

Communication

10/10

Location

10/10

Listing accuracy

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

sharon m.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Really lovely house and setting that worked well for our family gathering over Christmas. Ambient, warm and comfortable - we would highly recommend and would happily return.
Stayed 7 nights in Dec 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

holly s.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
Stunning home, beautiful location and lovely host. We had a fabulous weekend and would recommend Oast House to anyone! Hopefully be back in the future too.
Stayed 2 nights in Dec 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Chris H.

Liked: Cleanliness, check-in, communication, location, listing accuracy
We had an amazing friends Christmas weekend at the Oast. Joanna was a great host, excellent communication and she was kind enough to put up some Christmas decorations before we arrived so it was extra festive. The property and location is stunning and I can't recommend it enough!
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Marie T.

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

Wonderful stay

Fantastic family weekend, the house has everything you’d need. Beautifully restored property with amazing views.
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Judi S.

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

Judi Standing

Fantastic, idyllic, picturesque. A wonderful place to celebrate your 60th birthday with your family
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Emma G.

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

Family and friends celebration

A wonderful weekend. The Oasthouse exceedded our expectation.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Hannah K.

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

New Years Eve Stay

The property was lovely, all bedrooms were of a good size and had a lovely open plan dinning/lounge area. The local area was beautiful with fantastic walks and a cosy local pub. Would definitely stay again.
Stayed 4 nights in Dec 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

James F.

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

Great stay in the country

Good place, very well equipped kitchen, plenty of space for our group of 10. Great views.
Stayed 3 nights in Dec 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Maria D.

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

Magical place, sereen and beautiful

Perfect
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Lyn S.

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

Superb accommodation in an idyllic location

A perfect base for a three generation family holiday. The Oast was delightful and immediately felt like home. Tasteful décor and lovely open spaces with views of the valley. Plenty to do in the area and a great pub, The Red Lion, in the village.
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Saffron M.

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

Fabulous property

Gorgeous setting for our weekend gathering. Great to be able to use outdoor space and be comfortable indoors too. Bedrooms all generously sized. Location lovely!
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Fiona G.

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

Beautiful property

Wonderfully sympathetic conversion of a historic building into a lovely comfortable house with glorious views.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Neil W.

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

Family 60th birthday weekend for 9 guests

Special long weekend for immediate family. Wonderful house with tons of character in a very rural location but only 15-20 mins from Rye, Hastings, Chapel Down winery and pubs galore
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Carol G.

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

Hare Farm

The property was fantastic with magnificent views. Everything was as described. Very central for exploring the area.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

George N.

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

Country Retreat

We had a fabulous time relaxing at Hare Farm Oast. The property is immaculate and well maintained. Our hosts were very responsive and helpful, going above and beyond. I will definitely be back and would recommend the Oast to anyone interested in a quiet country farm house.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Tina M.

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

Fabulous!!

From the communication to the Oast itself, everything was 6 star! Had a fabulous stay, thank you Joanna x
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2021
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Ruth A.

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

Family trip

The oast house is absolutely beautiful, the photos don’t do it justice. It is spotlessly clean and the view is incredible. I would highly recommend.
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Alison R.

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

Wonderful property

A wonderful property, exactly as described, and with beautiful views. Very peaceful and private, and it worked very well for our extended family, particularly the large open plan space, and none of the bedrooms disappointing. We will be back!
Stayed 3 nights in Jun 2023
Archival

10/10 Excellent

Joanna T.

A building with 6 round rooms. Wow!

A sensitive restoration of a beautiful oast house. The roundel rooms were wonderful (even have curved radiators). So well looked after, every detail taken care of. And the views, oh my. They were endless, and not an ugly landmark in sight. Just rolling valleys and fluffy white sheep.
Archival

10/10 Excellent

Claire M.

Simply the best

Our multi-generation party, aged from 2-81 is quite hard to accommodate but over the years we've found some great UK holiday lets. The Oast is by far our favourite and the highest standard we've found. It's a beautiful building, really comfortable and well-equipped (great kitchen, brilliant showers). The enclosed garden has a wonderful view, with sheep. The owners are close by for any problems or queries and were friendly and helpful but never intrusive. We didn't know the area and that was a nice surprise too, with some good walks directly from the house and Rye on the doorstep.
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Linda E.

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

Lovely Relaxing Weekend

Property worked well for a large family group of 10. Bedding was lovely and we had good communication with owner and their family who live next door who were on hand to help with any issues. There was a great outdoor space where we had family games. If we were to make any suggestions it would be for an extra 2 garden chairs to save bringing out indoor ones and the small sofa bed to be replaced as it was very uncomfortable for sitting on. But otherwise all good thank you 😊
Stayed 3 nights in Sep 2023
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Tracy G.

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

30th Birthday celebrations

Just returned after a long weekend celebrating our daughter’s 30th birthday. We were a party of 9 adults and 3 small children. The house was cosy and plenty big enough for us all. Happily stay there again, although we had to be super vigilant at all times as our grandson is only a year old and already walking, so the stairs and the fireplace were very hazardous to him. I would definitely recommend with older children. We were shown around the lambing sheds by Annie and saw some lambs being born. A visit to the Red Lion is a must. All in all a great time, Joanna was very helpful in the run up to our stay and during.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Cathy H.

An amazing house in a great location.

We had a wonderful week's holiday staying at the oast house at Hare Farm. As soon as we set foot in the property, we knew we were going to enjoy our time there. It is spacious, airy ,funished to a very high standard and of course, a very historically interesting building. Everything that we needed had been provided for and we looked forward to coming back to it every day. The bedrooms were all comfortable, the seating area downstairs was an extremely relaxing place to unwind and the kitchen had every amenity required. The high point for us all however, was the setting. The views from the back of the house were wonderful. We could watch the mist over the fields in the early morning, an owl flying across the valley in the evening, the sheep grazing at any time of day - there was always something to enjoy and appreciate. The rear patio was the perfect place to sit and while away the time and there was also plenty of space for the children to play while others relaxed. When not enjoying being at the house, there is a wide variety of things to do and places to see in the area so it provided a great base for exploring. Returning home however down the country lanes to the farm was always a lovely way to end the day. Our hosts at the farm were incredibly helpful and welcoming. The basket of goodies that greeted us on arrival had been thoughtfully prepared and was much appreciated as were other special touches such as vases of fresh flowers and high quality toiletries in the bathrooms. To sum up, we all felt that this property had everything that we could have hoped for in a holiday venue. We felt we were somewhere special, we found we were able to relax immediately, we were extremely comfortable and we knew straight away that we were going to have a great stay.
Stayed 7 nights in Jul 2018
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Diana H.

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

Family health holiday

Amazing house and great location
Stayed 6 nights in Oct 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Martin W.

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

A perfect spot for a family break.

We hired the Oast for a family get-together to celebrate a significant birthday. It was absolutely ideal, with good sized bedrooms and plenty of bathrooms (the showers in particular are worth a mention). The private garden was perfect for relaxing, with the sights and sounds (baa!) of the adjacent sheep farm. It’s a short drive to the seaside or into the countryside for walks. I would delighted to recommend it.
Stayed 7 nights in Jun 2022

About the host

Hosted by Joanna Thompson

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Our parents bought Hare Farm in 1985 when the Oast house was a redundant building (the last hop harvest on Hare Farm was in the 70s) and so they used it as their potting shed. The farm is now run by my brother, Stuart, in one of the most beautiful parts of the Sussex countryside. Myself, Stuart and Annie (sister-in-law) restored and converted the Oast house in 2010/11. Alongside the sheep farm and conservation schemes, we offer both the Oast house and a shepherds hut as self-catering accommodation.

Why they chose this property

Hare Farm is often recalled as a true “Darling Buds of May” setting, made all the more so by the oast house which holds so much history and beauty architecturally. We could not let it collapse and disappear. We have invested in restoring it to its original beauty, and converting it in to a high-spec holiday home for our guests to all enjoy. Such a unique and historic feature in the Sussex landscape is now secure for generations to come, and we are very proud to have enabled this to happen.

What makes this property unique

Hare Farm Oast is unique for its building and situation. Firstly it offers an idyllic setting (far from the road with spectacular views across the Brede Valley). Secondly, the oast house is one of the most stunning properties one could wish to stay in. It is spacious throughout, has three roundels, so six round rooms to admire and many of the original features are retained (exposed brickwork, timber, vaulted ceilings, hop equipment). Thirdly, it is finished to a very high spec, including luxury master bedrooms and en-suites, a fabulous round kitchen with Corian worktops and a Rangemaster cooker, oak and tiled floors with underfloor heating throughout the downstairs, Sky Sports and more. It really is a very special place to stay.

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