Type: Country House Hotel
This beautiful, intimate 16thC coaching inn rests beside the River Exe in the heart of the Exmoor National Park. Log fires, oak beamed bars combine with sumptuous en suite bedrooms which invite you to kick off your shoes and relax.
Days and days of exploring await you, walk or ride over open moorland. Take one of our Exmoor safaris viewing the wild red deer and Exmoor ponies.
Twenty-eight en suite rooms with TV, direct dial telephones and tea and coffee makers. Dogs welcome.
Photographic tours can be arranged, walking groups welcome. Fishing, shooting, mountain biking and horse riding can be arranged. Guided walks and safaris.
Accommodation Information
- Number of Rooms/Units:
- 28
| Room / Unit Type | Capacity | Room / Unit Tariff* |
|---|
| Honeymoon Rooms | 2 | from £115.00 to £151.00 per room (breakfast included) |
| Family (En-Suite) | 4 | from £110.00 to £156.00 per room (breakfast included) |
| Double/Twin | 2 | from £90.00 to £136.00 per room (breakfast included) |
| Single (En-Suite) | 1 | from £50.00 to £68.00 per room (breakfast included) |
* As a guide, prices are per room per night for hotels, guest houses, B&Bs and serviced apartments and per week for self-catering accommodation.
Note: Prices are a guide only and may change on a daily basis.
Road Directions
M5 Jcn 27 follow A361 for approximately 6 miles. At roundabout turn right along A396. After 11 miles turn left to Dulverton then take B3223 Exford.
Public Transport Directions
From Taunton - 25 miles. Visitors travelling by train are advised to contact the hotel to arrange to be collected from the station (as there are no connecting buses for the onward journey).
Facilities
Provider Preferences
- Country house
- Film or TV location - Anna Lee - starring Imogen Stubbs 1994. Return of the Native - starring Catherine Zeta Jones.
- In countryside
- Inn
- Non smoking establishment
- Of historic, literary or architectural interest - 16thC coaching inn.
Accessibility
- Wireless Broadband Internet Access
Children & Infants
- Accept children (Minimum age)
- Accept children all ages
- Children's play area
- Cot
- Facilities for children
- Food/bottle warming available
- Highchair
Parking & Transport
Leisure Facilities
- Arrangements for riding/pony trekking
- Fishing - Nick Hart - youngest advanced guide tutor in UK, available for fly-fishing tuition and guiding
Catering
- Additional meal details - All specialist diets catered for by prior arrangement.
- Bar
- Cater for vegetarians
- Room service
- Serve breakfast - 8.00am-9.45am. Breakfast in bed. 8am-10.30am.
- Serve evening meal - Bar menu 5.30pm-9.30pm, restaurant 7pm-9.30pm.
- Serve lunch - Full bar menu available 7 days a week, 11am-2.30pm.
Payment Methods
- Delta accepted
- Maestro accepted
- MasterCard accepted
- Solo accepted
- Visa accepted
Room / Unit Features
- Colour television in all bedrooms
- Four poster beds available
- Ground floor bedrooms available
- Hairdryer in all bedrooms
- Non smoking rooms available
- Radio in all bedrooms
- Tea & coffee making facilities in all bedrooms
- Telephone in all bedrooms
Establishment Features
- 24 hr return laundry service
- Accept coach parties
- Available for wedding receptions
- Business facilities (eg. Fax/ modem) - ISDN line available, fax, photocopy service. Room available for small meetings.
- Central heating throughout
- Conference facilities - Multi purpose
- Event venue
- Garden/patio for guests' use
- Ironing facilities
- Pets accepted
- Public telephone
- Real log/coal fires
- Separate guests' lounge
- Staff fluent in foreign languages ** (List of languages are separately given) - French
Specialist Features
- Aim to attract conferences and business meetings
- Marketed as green/environmentally friendly - Winner of West Somerset Environmentally Aware Business of the Year 2001
- Marketed to any other specialist market - Photographic groups: itinaeraries, packed lunch, guided if required, locations and specialist knowledge, riding breaks, hunting and shooting breaks
- Special provisions for cyclists - Secure storage of cycles, cycle routes/paths across National Park
- Special provisions for walkers - Walk to 3 hotels, Exford, Lynmouth and Berrynarbour, luggage relayed, packed lunch, mapped by park ranger, guided walks for small groups
Languages spoken