FACILITIES

We offer double, twin and family rooms, most with
en-suite shower and loo, all with adjustable
central heating, television, DVD/CD player,
kettle, hairdryer, fan heater, tissues, cotton
buds, sweets, shampoo, conditioner, moisturiser
and a hospitallity tray with home made cake,
filtered water tea, coffee, chocolate, horlicks
and ovaltine. Fruit teas and de-caff
coffee are also available nearby.

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First the snags!

• This is a totally non-smoking house. (It takes an age to get rid of the smell.)
• We regret that we cannot accommodate any animals.
• We do not normally accept children because of the additional hazards presented by a property of this age.
  However we do like children and we will willingly accomodate sensible children if they are well controlled and you take full responsibility for any damage they may cause and any injuries they may suffer.

General Info

On your first day, if you arrive at our preferred time (i.e. between about 5 and 7 pm), you get a complimentary pot of tea or coffee and home made cake served in the lounge.

Your room will normally be available from 5pm on your first day and we ask you to vacate it by 10am on your last day. If you wish to arrive earlier or depart later please let us know. We may be able to make your room available earlier and if we can't you are welcome to leave your luggage and/or use the lounge until it is.

With your room key you get a key to the front door, so you can come and go at whatever time you like (hopefully quietly if late!).

Our en-suites are compact and have a shower with glass doors, a wash basin, a shaver point and an old-style loo with a high level cistern. We provide the shower gel, shampoo and conditioner.

All rooms have a hospitality tray with and tea, coffee, milk (fresh, not little plastic cartons), chocolate, horlicks and ovaltine kettle, filtered water, glasses and normally a complementary home made cake or two each. We do not limit the supply of tea, coffee, milk etc., more is always available.

Each room has a colour TV and a DVD/CD player. We provide a TV guide on the landing but all the TVs have teletext so you can find out what programs are on even if some one else has temporarily borrowed the guide.

The main bathroom (and separate loo) is available to all even if you have your own en-suite. At the moment it takes over half an hour for the water to re-heat for the next bath but we are hoping to improve this eventually.

Most of our furniture matches as it is antique effect pine (bought locally) or simply old and solid.

We have original pine doors, lots of pictures on the walls, sundry period features, some slightly sloping floors, a few distinctly out skew door frames and we like to think that the decorations are reasonably tasteful. All our bed linen and towels are white (with some frills) and we have no chipboard or chintz.

Food

Breakfast is included and we try and make it as wholesome and filling as possible.

It is normally available from 7:00 to 8:30 during the week and from 8:30 to 9:30 at weekends and bank holidays. If this is inconvenient a simpler breakfast may be available earlier or later than this, please ask

The standard breakfast normally consists of :-

Help yourself to cereal, yoghurt, fresh fruit and fruit juice,

A cooked main course of 2 sausages, 2 rashers of bacon, grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried egg (this can be varied on request)

Fill up with toast and marmalade, jam, honey etc.

And obviously as much tea or coffee as you wish.

An alternative vegetarian breakfast is always available and other special diets may also be catered for if arranged in advance. Please enquire when booking.

Food is home cooked with high quality ingredients. Without being cranky about it, we try to use free range or non-intensive produce as much as possible and we try to buy everything from small local suppliers (although we get some beef from Mull in Scotland). We buy nothing minced up or otherwise unrecognisable unless we personally know the person making or supplying it and have their assurance about what is in it.

A three course evening meal is normally available if booked in the morning.

If you don't require an evening meal, you can still use the dining room for take-aways. Crockery and cutlery is provided.

Bathroom & Loo

Our main bath and loo are both original Victorian items dating from the 1890's. The WC has blue patterning inside with a high level wooden cistern. The bath is cast iron without the usual roll top edge, instead it sits under a large wooden top with a big hole in it somewhat reminiscent of a loo seat.

The bath is luxuriously large and the wooden top is ideal for sitting candles on, so why not try a candle-lit bath? We provide the bath essence, shampoo, conditioner and candles and the bath is big enough for two!

Important notes about the bath

For some time now the normal finish for a cast iron bath has been vitreous enamel which is basically just melted glass and is consequently very tough. However our bath was made before this was common and so it would just have been painted with gloss paint which would have needed renewing every year or so.

We have had the bath restored but vitreous enamelling would have required heating it to 900°C and throwing glass powder at it and, as the bath had never had this done in the first place, it was quite likely that it may have cracked it. So instead we settled for having it stove enamelled. Stove enamelling is basically paint but dried very hard in an oven. It is a fairly tough finish but nothing like as tough as vitreous enamelling and it can be damaged by some oils and solvents.

So we ask please, please, please just stick to soap and water and the products that we provide. Do not use your own bath oil or other preparations in the bath and if you are using any thing other than shampoo provided on your hair please use the bathroom basin and not the bath. Apart from the fact that bath oils may attack the bath, these products make it very slippery and by using them you may cause yourself or someone else to slip and injure themselves.