Our Bench was orignally established as a Bed and Breakfast accommodation in the 1980's, when the owners Mary and Roger Lewis offered a full English breakfast and ensuite accommodation in their family home. The opportunity arose to build two self catering holiday cottages - Little Bench and Bench Cottage. These were purpose built with accessible accommodation at the forefront of accessible development and when they opened in 2001 they were the first holiday cottages in Hampshire that provided level access throughout, had split level kitchens and a modern accessible wet room.
Our Bench offer family and wheelchair accessible self catering accommodation in Lymington on the edge of the New Forest National Park. We have three purpose built cottages available, all with level access, ground floor accommodation, accessible wet rooms with space for lateral transfers, kitchens which have built in accessible areas and comfortable home from home furnishings. We are able to accommodate between 2 and 5 guests in individual cottages, and up to 11 people with a group booking.
All cottages have electric specialist head and foot riser electric beds, ceiling hoists in master bedroom, a riser recliner chair, central heating, off road parking and free Wifi as standard. Height adjustable/ profiling / carers bed in Bench Cottage and Garden Bench and Little Bench! Adult changing table with H-Hoist available in Bench Cottage.
Our disabled access cottages are in the New Forest, all three cottages are situated on the outskirts of Lymington. We are an ideal base for the New Forest, the South Coast, Hampshire and Dorset. Fantastic day trips to the Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton, Salisbury, Bournemouth and Winchester. There are lots of places to visit nearby from theme parks to ornamental gardens, crazy golf to museums and we are delighted to share some ideas with you in our explore section.
This accommodation caters for a person with who uses a wheelchair full time, as well as guests with limited mobility, whom may need level access, specialist furniture, or whom would benefit from increased understanding or quiet spaces to enable them to enjoy their stay. Every cottage has a height adjustable profiling bed, additional electric head and foot riser beds, a ceiling hoist in the bed room and a level wet room with plenty of turning space - and is level access from your car to your bed - totally step free.