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Main Barn and Reception

With views over the vineyard to the sea, the Main Barn is the beating heart of our Retreat. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed inside at our Reception, and throughout your stay, gather here to eat, drink and relax. Thoughtfully prepared plates will find their way to the Main Barn for our lunchtime buffet, as well as other homemade sweets and snacks. Enjoy the aromas from our bread oven as we prepare wood-fired loaves and pizzas. Set off from here for forages, farm tours, garden walks, and trips to the vineyard – it’s the heart and hub of Louma.

Main House

Our Main House has seven guest rooms, a dining room, lounge, library and terrace. It is the ideal choice for anyone wishing to experience the intimate farm-to-fork dining that Louma has to offer, for a large gathering with friends and family, or a corporate event. Our elegantly in-keeping rooms have a magnificent mix of sea or countryside views from all sides and allow you to feel immersed in the experience. Breakfast and dinner included and prepared daily by our Executive Chef, Jamie Thewes, using delicious and nourishing ingredients, produced in our fields, gardens and woods.

Timber Stables

Converted from a traditional stable block, our beautiful Timber Stables offer two accommodations, spread over one floor. Tall, open-plan interiors lead onto a private terrace, with hot tub, and inside, a spacious bedroom, gorgeous bathroom with shower, and a beautiful kitchen and living space, to rest and rejuvenate. You may also bring the family, since the lounge area is thoughtfully furnished with a comfy double sofa bed so you can enjoy the space together.

Stone Barn

Restored using the original Dorset chert, our Stone Barns are a lovely piece of the farm’s heritage. Now converted into four individual barns, we have barns spread over two floors, reiterating the homely feeling that the intimate interiors inspire, and two studios: ideal for a cosy couples retreat. Relish in the self-catering experience, with fresh produce from the farm, and enjoy magnificent views from floor-to-ceiling windows.

Wellness Barn & Massage Huts

Submerge in the calming waters of the heated pool, bask in our magnificent outdoor pool, or simply let your body breathe and relax in our sauna. The experience is yours to have. Our Fitness Suite is complete with Technogym treadmills, stationary bike, skillmill and bespoke BLK BOX weights, making it the perfect place to work out, benefitting your physical and mental wellbeing, and around the site, we host Yoga Classes, for flexibility of body and spirit. In our massage huts, enjoy a range of sumptuous treatments, curated by our in-house team, that will relax you thoroughly.

The Furrow

A self-contained modular cabin with all the modern conveniences, the Furrow presents beautiful reclaimed timber interiors, with a combination of detailed craftsmanship and Nordic style. With two double bedrooms, a large wet room and an open plan living, kitchen, dining area, The Furrow is considerately designed. Floor-to-ceiling windows allow you to take in your surroundings, whilst its warm atmosphere will have you feeling right at home, with a wood burning stove to keep you cosy, and large kitchen to make the most of all the produce the season has to give.

Shepherd Huts

Overlooking the panoramic view to the sea, our heritage Shepherd Huts are hand-crafted in the nearby Blackdown Hills. Our Single Huts are perfect for a pair, whilst our Double Brace huts, joined together with a beautiful glass walkway, suit 2-4 people and are ideal for families. Each complete with a kitchen, bathroom, wood burning stove and private garden for the ultimate space to feel immersed in your surroundings.

BBQ/Braai & Pond

Cooking over fire is an elemental pleasure; our Braai area allows for an intimate dining experience in the open air. Neighbouring the Ornamental Garden and using ingredients from the garden, fields and pastures, our South African Braai allows you to enjoy a private dinner or lunch, tailored just for you and your guests, as well as playing host to BBQ nights and events, with supper served family-style on our picnic tables. You are welcome to get as hands-on in the preparation as you’d like, or allow our chef to cook for you, either way, you’ll enjoy a braai experience like no other.

Kitchen Garden

Our Louma Gardens fulfil several purposes, supplying our kitchens, providing herbs for our wellness products, and colour to the landscape, allowing diversity to thrive and abundance to grow. Our half acre formal Kitchen Garden boasts a stunning timber-frame glasshouse, and granite bordered blocks, each centred with a prolific apple tree, beautifying the garden even more, and we have Herbal and Ornamental gardens besides. Cultivated with care, using regenerative practices, our gardens are grown in collaboration with our chefs and are designed with people in mind.

Horse Stables

Share a moment with our Stables team and meet our resident horses and ponies. Learn about the day-to-day routines, and the exceptional stories of how these animals came to us and the connection they provide to so many. Meet here for horse and pony treks, where you can journey through the West Dorset lanes and surrounding woodlands, or join a connective horse experience where you can engage and form bonds with these beautiful creatures and understand all that they give to make Louma even more vibrant and magical.

Apiary

Our Apiary hosts three types of hives that fulfil different purposes, when caring for the native honeybees at Louma. Our purpose-built observation hive allows us to see the bees at work, whilst more traditional hives allow the bees to create more of a natural habitat, whilst giving us the opportunity to inspect them. Rocket hives are unmaintained, and allow wild colonies an entirely authentic habitat, built from a hollowed out logs and set on stilt-like legs or attached to a trunk. Join us on our Bee Safaris and visits the hives.

Cow Barn

Our incredible Cow Barn and Sheep Barn were built in 2022 by local timber-framer, Dave Burleigh and his team. They are a stunning example of his traditional craft, that restores a sense of connection to the environment with natural materials and great skill. Our Sheep Barn is home to our ewes when lambing, and is a integral store for our hay and tree hay. The Cow Barn is where we bring our herd in to care for them, observe them whilst calving, and milk them in our purpose-built milking parlour, in preparation for making our own butter, cheese and yoghurt.

Guppy Barn

A long-standing relic of the former Guppy Farm, that once boasted ten outbuildings, a walled garden, a plantation, and many more gardens besides. We have, to some extent, restored the barn, replacing the old roof for Spanish slate, installing beautifully wood-crafted doors and ensuring the shutter is always open for the barn owls, who sometimes nest inside. Here you can relax, with seating, soft lighting and a cosy atmosphere, ideal for enjoying your morning coffee, or playing some board games in the evening with a glass of Cuvée.

Play Area

Designed with maximal outdoor fun in mind, our outdoor play area will entice both the young and the young at heart. Let the little ones balance, swing, climb and slide through our woodland inspired play equipment, giving them space to use up some energy outside. Jump aboard our very own pirate ship and prepare to raise the sail and explore the open seas! Further afield you can find our very own double-decker play bus, with arts, crafts and movies night activities to keep the kids entertained for hours.

Woodland Walk

Built by our neighbour and traditional chairmaker, David Saltmarsh, and local spoon carver, Adam Hawker, our Woodland Walk is a magnificent feat of craftsmanship, winding through our Woodland, Spence Plantation, and spanning an incredible 597m in total. Follow the Woodland Walk along the trail, underneath the majestic canopy of turkey oaks, sycamores, beech and hazel trees – some of which are over 120 years old. Listen for the wind in the leaves and feel the ground at your feet whilst you reconnect in nature, perhaps finding treasures to forage along the way.