We’re a small community of eight families, occupying separate ‘living units’ inside a large Cotswold Manor House, and we currently have a three-bed unit for sale at £217,000 (more on our website). People tend to stay here for many years but one of our long-time member families has inherited a house and land in California so is starting a new adventure. You can discuss joining us if you’re interested to see if we all like one another and think we can live together.
Email sand...@gmail.com to start a conversation. (Click on the three dots to the left of the @ for full email address)
Our bit of the Postlip valley holds a mainly-Jacobean house, a medieval Tithe Barn, and the 12C Chapel of St James, in Gloucestershire. We do lots of things together, from growing organically and maintaining the house and grounds to running public events but we also have private lives.
The best way to visit Postlip is to come and work with us in the garden and estate on one of our monthly working weekends. Postlip events include the annual Cotswold Beer Festival, folk and classical music concerts, story-telling and drama, and our current schedule is here...
We sometimes hire out our beautiful medieval Tithe Barn, and the Great Hall, for weddings, exhibitions, parties and large events.
The Postlip Community has a three-bed unit for sale at £217,000
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 13:49 — adminThree-bed unit for sale at £217,000
Postlip, a small community of eight families, occupying separate ‘living units’ inside a large Cotswold Manor House, currently has a three-bed unit for sale at £217,000.
For more information visit The Postlip Community Site, or check out their UK Cohousing page.
Postlip Community: cohousing established in 1968 - new to the Cohousing Network
Fri, 10/31/2008 - 11:22 — adminThe Cohousing Network welcomes the Postlip Community: click here for their network homepage.
In 1968, two families who had been running a bulk-buying cooperative started to think about other ways of sharing. We wanted space, facilities and support to pursue the bees in our individual bonnets. We believed in being together but felt that everyone needs private space, so we dreamt of creating separate family homes within a cooperative setting. We'd accidentally invented cohousing!
So we searched for other families with compatible dreams, and for a large country house where we could grow food and flowers, paint and sculpt, write novels, work on inventions, give our children opportunities and freedom, make wine and drink it, have parties and fun together, and create somewhere special to live. We spent 1969 in growing the group, refining our ideas and eventually discovering Postlip Hall, a mainly-Jacobean Manor House with fifteen acres.
Almost 40 years later, Postlip is eight family 'units', each a separate home. We work the organic two-acre kitchen garden and grounds communally (with the help of WWOOFers) and use the Great Hall for shared meals, public events, parties and whatever. People move between privacy and communality. We eat together regularly but not constantly, meet often enough to share ideas and make decisions about practicalities, and are casually into one another's homes much of the time.
We're a Housing Association, keep minutes and accounts, and manage to stay solvent. People hold their units on long leases, so you can only join if somebody leaves and makes a unit free to be sold at an agreed valuation.
There's more about us at our website.
