A Winter retreat at Willowbank in celebration of Jane Austen’s 250th birthday

This December, Willowbank Retreats invites you to cross the threshold and linger a while in its timeless calm, to mark the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, in December 1775.  

Set within the soft hush of Titchfield's medieval heart, Willowbank, a Grade II listed Elizabethan and Georgian manor, rests just a few miles from Chawton where Austen lived, wrote and dreamed. 

Here, the days unfold gently; as they did then, so they do now. Stroll the oak woods and read aloud by the fireside. Sharing favourite scenes and well-loved words. Bake loaves of bread for supper. Read, write, or sew pre-loved fabric in the drawing room.

Sit quietly in the sun's winter rays in the orangery, or in the library, simply being. Each evening, candlelight gathers us round the table, where simple soulful suppers bring warmth to the winter hours.

The bedrooms at Willowbank each tell their own story. Perhaps a four-poster bed hung with antique lace, or a small room looking out onto the ancient magnolia.

Willowbank opens its arms in quiet invitation, to step softly into the pages of its story. Come, and find a little Austen gentleness in the stillness of Winter.