Former Emmerdale star Kelvin Fletcher reportedly earns an extra £78,000 a year by renting out a luxurious cottage on his farm. Kelvin and wife Liz charge up to £1,500-a-week to rent the three bedroom property.
The 42-year-old soapstar’s main income these days comes from running his farm in the Peak District. However his Stag Cottage, based on the outskirts on Wincle in Cheshire, offers an additional cash boost.
The property is almost fully booked for 2026, with only a handful of dates currently available. The cosy cottage, complete with a hot tub, has been immaculately renovated with luxury furnishings and even has a grand piano.
Kelvin recently shared to Instagram that the couple were now taking bookings for 2027. The cottage has so far been a hit with holidaymakers.
Writing on Skye Cottages, one said: “The property was beautiful with lots of little touches for home comforts and attention to detail to make it so easy to relax!
“The kitchen was very well equipped with everything we needed to make our meals each evening, the living areas were very comfortable and the beds were even more comfortable!”
Another added: “Beautiful scenery and lots of walks and hikes close by and then a nice relax in the hot tub afterwards. Enjoy this lovely cottage and make it you home.”
Kelvin and Liz have documented their pivot towards rural life on TV’s Kelvin’s Big Farming Adventure and Fletchers’ Family Farm. However, the actor has previously emphasised that portraying a farmer on Emmerdale did little to equip him for actual farming life.
The former Strictly Come Dancing contestant chose to leave his role as Andy Sugden in the ITV1 soap after 20 years, subsequently embracing agricultural life on his 120-acre Peak District farm, home to various animals including sheep, pigs, goats and alpacas, as well as their four children.
Yet he maintains that his time in the show’s Yorkshire Dales setting failed to provide him with any practical “skill set”.
Speaking to OK! magazine, he said: “I wish it did. I once said that what I know about farming you could write on the back of a stamp. I used to love filming those scenes but very rarely were the scenes about farming.
“The irony is that I played a farmer for 20 years and pretended to be one, and now I’m doing that. It’s just a bit bizarre isn’t it? But there’s no skill set I can transfer.”
Kelvin acknowledged that he and Liz have embarked on a steep learning curve when it comes to farming, though it wasn’t something they’d originally envisaged for themselves.
He explained: “We’ve really been on a journey. We’re not experts by any stretch, but we’re really taking this seriously and we’re enjoying it.
“We’ve got four children, 150 sheep, five goats, 36 pigs, three alpacas with three more coming next week – and a dog and a cat. We didn’t really plan to farm. We found ourselves with a few sheep and then it snowballed from there. Everyone always used to tell us, ‘Farming is just a way of life’ and that’s truly the only way to describe it.”
