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Sophie Watson & Milo Boyd

You can now book stays in an ex-funeral home with embalming tables and coffins

Holidaymakers can rest in peace when they stay at a new converted funeral home, decorated with coffins and embalming tables.

The series of three luxury one-bed properties include the Chapel and the Well House where a Frenchman mysteriously drowned in the 18th century.

The spooky £195-a-night holiday cottages were formerly a funeral home, small church with graveyard and a well house.

Owners Stuart and Victoria Dudley converted the derelict buildings near Bromsgrove, Worcestershire into three luxury holiday lets.

Many of the original features remain intact, including a line of coffins inside the cottage which still displays the sign 'Funeral Director'.

Victoria and Stuart Dudley are the owners of Crossbrook Farm (Emma Trimble / SWNS)

The kitchen also displays a row of original embalming tables dating back to the 17th century.

Stuart, 44, an architect, admits many guests have reported hearing strange noises and feeling spooky chills in many of the rooms.

He said: "In the Well House, the legend is a French gentleman drowned in the 18th century. There is a memorial commemorating his death on the front of the well - it's a nice bit of history.

"We have had numerous guests stay who have been into spiritual healing and witchcraft and many who have stayed said they have felt a presence in this property.

"This is often described as a sense of change of temperature, or they have seen orbs in the photographs they have taken when they go and view them again.

There is a graveyard by one of the properties (Emma Trimble / SWNS)

"At night we've heard strange sounds and when we've gone to check it our there's nothing there. We've taken photographs and when we've looked at them later, we've seen orbs in the corners of the rooms.

"Often, you'll be in one of the properties at night and you'll see shadows move and the temperature will suddenly drop. We get an interesting mix of people come and stay.

Many visitors to the property have reported spookings (Emma Trimble / SWNS)

"We get people looking for a romantic break and people who are interested in gothic architecture and English history.

"We've had American guests come and visit with their families too because they love the character and ambience of the place."

The chapel, funeral and graveyard dates back to the 17th century while the farm used to collect apples and pears which were made into cider.

The Chapel used to be a funeral directors (Emma Trimble / SWNS)

Victoria, 49, said: "When we refurbished this property, we tried to retain as many of existing features that we could which had been hidden away under the plaster or left and not exposed.

"The family set of coffins on the wall were acquired form a funeral director up north."

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