A former funeral home is being rented out as a guest house for holidaymakers who want to rest in peace. The five-bedroom property, which is about 350 years old, boasts gothic architecture, is decorated with coffins and even has its own graveyard.
Guests can enjoy a night at one of the three properties within the 12-acre plot in Bromsgrove in Worcestershire – The Chapel, The Well House or Crossbrook Farm - for just under £200 a night. But for those with an interest in the spiritual or supernatural, there is only one choice.
Stuart Dudley, a 44-year-old architect and co-owner of the holiday let, said: “In the Well House, which is one of the buildings guests can stay in at the property, the legend is a French gentlemen drowned in their in the 18th century. There is a memorial commemorating his death on the front of the well – it’s a nice bit of history.
