Panshanger

Panshanger

Panshanger Estate provides boutique bed and breakfast accommodation near Longford, northern Tasmania.Fly your own plane to this grand old 2400 hectare estate. Or drive down a private road with sheep, wheat, cattle and poppies giving way to a tree-lined drive to the entrance of the sandstone mansion. Once a children’s nursery, the spacious apartment is self-contained and totally private. It has a fully equipped kitchen, large double bedroom with queen-sized bed, a single bedroom, and a separate bath and shower. Relax in your private sitting room beside a gas fire and experience the ambience of a bygone era. The house, built around 1835, is classified by the National Trust and listed on the National Estate and has been owned by your host’s family for the past 100 years.After a peaceful nights’ sleep and a hearty breakfast, stroll through the English gardens and riverside forests of beech, elm, pine, oak and laurel, play tennis, fish for trout in the Lake River on the property or just laze under shady tree. You can also sample fruit from the orchards and huge berry patches.Panshanger is approximately 20-minutes’ drive (27 kilometres/17 miles) from Launceston. ...read more