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Article in Country Living Magazine
There’s only one bedroom for guests at this stone-built farm set high on the Cotswolds between Stroud and Cirencester, but it is surely the best room in the house.
A former hayloft with views in three directions, the spacious room and bathroom are in pink toile and stripes with carefully chosen botanical prints on the wall. Embroidered linens illustrate the care and attention lavished on a good B&B – another plus is the something-for-everyone book collection for guests to dip into.
Kate Gordon Lennox and her husband Edward arrived at Well Farm to find a renovation project that had run out of steam. They got to work and now the old Cotswold barn and outbuildings are linked by a new build, forming a south-facing courtyard shielded from the winds in this exposed spot.
As we had tea at Kate’s farmhouse kitchen table she told us about the garden she began creating five years ago and already flourishing with a native hedge, orchard and collection of roses. Below my hayloft window was a hawthorn tree, beyond that the vegetable plot and chicken-run with Welsummers, Light Sussex and Pekins.
Kate serves their eggs for breakfast and, for dinner, she suggested the White Horse pub. It was quite a find, having won Les Routiers’ UK Dining Pub of the Year 2004. Fine dining on the doorstep made Well Farm not just a lovely B&B but an essential Cotswold stopover.
LISA SYKES
Extracts from our Visitors Book
“A lovely stay in a beautiful house and part of the country. You really made us feel like family friends staying over. Many thanks.”
“We’ve thoroughly enjoyed the freely given and generous hospitality of Kate and Edward in this beautiful location.”
“Beautiful bedroom and such a friendly welcome. Super to find good restaurants just a few minutes away. A great January weekend in the Cotswolds. Thank you.”
“Friendly peaceful and very comfortable. What more could you wish for? And a fantastic big bath!!”
“Two cyclists exhausted from cycling up the Thames were stumbling around Frampton Mansell looking for a place to stay. They bumped into a kindly lady in her vegetable patch… and the rest is history. Ginger biscuits, kind hosts, loving dogs and a 3-1 victory on the tennis court. Thanks A LOT.”
“Delicious breakfast and comfortable beds. What a lovely home! Thank you.”
“The warmest of welcomes, delightful rooms, delicious breakfast. All immaculate”.
“Beautiful house and gardens and great walks.”
“You have the three essentials in life: space, silence and solitude and we reveled in it. Thank you for everything.”
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