We’re a long-established community who share Postlip Hall, a beautiful Jacobean manor house with 15 acres of land nestled below Cleeve Common.

Postlip is now home to 14 adults and 13 children of all ages. We like spending time together but also lead independent lives, with the Hall divided into eight separate family houses. 

Unit 4 is a large four-bedroom family home situated over three levels with super-fast fibre broadband.  The house has a fitted kitchen with flagstone floor and Aga; upstairs and downstairs bathrooms; 6x6m living room and bedroom with high ceilings on the second floor; with three more bedrooms on the third floor. It overlooks the flower borders and a magnificent ancient Beech tree to the SW, and the Hall’s central courtyard to the NE. It was recently re-valued for 2024 at £506,000. 

We work communally in our organic vegetable garden, look after our sheep and chickens and maintain and improve the woods, grounds and walls of the estate. Contributing time and energy to the upkeep of Postlip is part of our what brings our community together, but most members also have full or part time jobs outside. Children thrive in the space and freedom of the grounds. Currently all but the tiniest attend local schools. 

We are a Housing Association, meeting formally every month to discuss, plan and make decisions. We all pay a monthly ground rent, supplemented by income from the many events we organise, from the annual Cotswold Beer Festival, barn dances, folk music weekends and wedding celebrations in our wonderful old tithe barn, to more intimate music and theatre performances in the main hall. 

The original Postlip pioneers bought the Hall, Barn and grounds in 1969. This means we rest on over fifty years of experience in community living – getting it wrong and hopefully mostly right. It also means that each new individual or family has to buy their part of the Hall from the departing members. As such, you have to be able to buy a home (leasehold) here, rather than rent. Many members have secured mortgages with both high street and more ethical lenders. 

We’ve been part of the WWOOF network from the start and take great joy in having visitors join us for a weekend working in the garden and grounds, in exchange for good food, rest and company. We all try to live lightly on the earth and aim to leave Postlip a better place for those who follow. 

If you’d like to learn more about co-housing at Postlip, drop by for one of our monthly Open Mornings, or come and get stuck in for a whole WWOOF Weekend. Please visit our website and email us to find out more.