Two lists: what exists, and what does not
Access
This is a brick house built in 1926 with a staircase in the middle of it and no lift. That is the governing fact and we would rather you knew it now than found out at the door.
What this building has
- A step-free entrance from the garden side, through a level threshold and a 34-inch door
- One step-free ground-floor room: the Garden Queen nearest the garden door, with a 32-inch bathroom door
- A wet-room shower in that bathroom with a fixed grab rail, a fold-down seat and a lever tap
- A step-free route from that room to the breakfast room and out into the garden
- Level access to the Garden Room, so a gathering there is reachable without stairs
- Assistance dogs welcome in every part of the building, at no charge
- Written information in large print on request, and staff who will read anything to you
- A doorbell at the garden entrance that rings at the desk
What it does not have
- A lift. Eleven of the fifteen rooms are up at least one flight and cannot be reached any other way
- A hoist, a profiling bed or any equipment of that kind
- A hearing loop at the desk
- An accessible bathroom on the first or second floor
- Braille signage
- A car park, or a dropping-off point off the street
The step-free room, described properly
It is the Garden Queen nearest the garden door. The route to it is: a level threshold at the garden entrance through a 34-inch door, then eleven feet of hard floor, then a 32-inch bedroom door. Inside, the bed is 25 inches high with clear floor on both sides, the bathroom door is 32 inches, and the bathroom is a wet room with a fixed grab rail, a fold-down seat and a lever tap. From that room the breakfast room and the garden are both reachable without a step.
Those are the measurements. We publish them rather than a word, because "accessible" means different things to different people and a number does not.
If any of that is the difference between the stay working and not working, telephone before you book and describe what you need. We would rather turn a booking away than take one we cannot honour.
Booking it
It is one of the four Garden Queens, and it is the one room in the building that is HELD rather than allocated on the day: book a Garden Queen and tell us in the notes that you need the step-free one, and it is yours. If it is already taken on your dates the answer is that we cannot house you, and you will get that answer straight away rather than after a deposit.
There is no lift in this building. There is no lift. One ground-floor room is step-free and eleven rooms cannot be reached without stairs.
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Getting here
61st Street–Woodside station has both stairs and a lift, and the walk from it to our door is two hundred yards of level pavement with two kerb ramps. There is no dropped kerb outside the building itself, so a car can stop but cannot pull in.
Fifteen rooms · breakfast included · no lift
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Give the form the night you arrive, the morning you leave and how many of you there are. It checks every night of the range rather than the first one, prices each night on its own and shows you the arithmetic before you type a name. If a night in the middle is full it says so and offers you the ranges nearby that do work.