Sitting among several carefully renovated barns, the Dairyman’s Cottage is a beautiful Isle of Wight retreat. The Dairyman’s Cottage has four bedrooms: three doubles en suite (can be turned into twins) and a twin room. There is also disabled access and a wet room. Downstairs there is an open plan kitchen, diner and sitting room. Outside there is a patio with BBQ, large garden and parking. During your stay you’re very welcome to explore the farm and try your hand at making pizza in one of our wood fired, outdoor ovens. Guests at Tapnell Farm will also have access to the Farm Park Shop - stocked with holiday essentials and tasty local produce, including fresh eggs from our chickens! We offer up to 50% ferry discount for our guest.

Our family has been in farming for over one hundred years and we took over the care of Tapnell and East Afton Farms in 1982. At its peak, the farm milked 800 cows and produced 24,000 litres of fresh wholesome milk 365 days of the year, no exceptions! Today, (run by brothers-in-law Tom Turney and Tom Honeyman-Brown) we no longer milk cows at Tapnell, but the Farm has become the Isle of Wight’s leading eco-tourism business and home to award-winning Tom’s Eco Lodge and farm accommodation, Tapnell Farm Park, The Cow Restaurant & Bar, Isle of Wight Aqua Park, Isle of Wight Football Golf and Archery & Axe Throwing. Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, whether taking water from our bore hole to supply the farm, using the sun to make electricity for hundreds of homes, powering our heating systems with our biomass boiler or growing over 30 acres of new woodland and hedgerows. It’s ingrained in everything we do. The golden rule for us is to pass on our farm in better environmental and productive health than it was at the beginning of our life’s tenure. There’s still much to do and we are certainly up for the challenge!