Thatched Barn House is a comfortable family home in a delightful setting on the edge of the East Hampshire village famous as the home of Gilbert White, the 18th Century forefather of recorded natural history and author of The Natural History of Selborne, the fourth most widely published book in the English language (after The Bible, The English Oxford Dictionary and The Collected Works of Shakespeare).

It is only four miles (6.5Km) from the village of Chawton, where novelist Jane Austen's cottage has for many years been a much-visited museum and where the magnificent Elizabethan manor house Chawton House has been restored by American philanthropist Sandy Lerner to provide a comprehensive museum, library and study centre all dedicated to Jane Austen, her family and her period.

Thatched Barn House has been graded as 4-diamond accommodation by the English Tourism Council.

Selborne is ideally located as a touring and communications centre.  It is within one hour's journey of both of London's international airports, at Heathrow and Gatwick, and only 30 minutes from the cross Channel port at Portsmouth. Central London is 60 miles away and reached in an hour by train and Selborne is ideally located as a stop-off point between the English Channel Tunnel at Folkestone and the picturesque West Country.