Hotel · Barnsley
THE PIG-in the Cotswolds
Barnsley House, the 17th-century house with Rosemary Verey's garden, now a 24-bedroom hotel in the PIG group, with a kitchen-garden restaurant and a spa, four miles from Cirencester.
The way to see Rosemary Verey's garden properly is to stay in the house it belongs to. A relaxed, food-led country hotel with its own pub over the road; breakfast is extra, and dogs only go in a few rooms.
- Good: Rosemary Verey's laburnum walk, knot garden and potager, for guests
- Good: Restaurant cooking from its kitchen garden and suppliers within 25 miles
- Good: Fieldhouse spa: a free hour in the sauna, steam room and hydro pool, booked at reception
- Worth knowing: Room-only rates: breakfast is paid for separately
- Worth knowing: Dogs in a small number of rooms only, booked by phone or email
- Worth knowing: An old house with gravel car parks
About
THE PIG-in the Cotswolds is Barnsley House, the Grade II* listed late seventeenth-century house in Barnsley, four miles from Cirencester on the Bibury road, now run as a hotel by the PIG group. Its garden, registered Grade II*, is the one Rosemary Verey made: the laburnum walk, the knot garden, the potager she laid out in the early 1970s, and a Tuscan temple brought from Fairford Park in 1962 to 1963. Guests can wander it, and the potager supplies the restaurant.
There are 24 bedrooms across the house and grounds. The restaurant's menu is built on the kitchen garden and producers within 25 miles, and the gardeners give a free tour of the kitchen garden each morning at 11, open to visitors as well as guests (let reception know you are coming). The Fieldhouse spa has a sauna, steam room and hydro pool, for over-18s only; residents book a free hour at reception.
Rates are room only, with breakfast extra. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am. Parking is free. Dogs stay in a few rooms, booked through reservations, and are kept out of the restaurant and lounges. Mr & Mrs Smith lists the dog rooms as standalone rooms, for dogs over a year old and no bigger than a Labrador, at £40 a night, cots as free on request in the Comfy, Comfy Luxe, Big Comfy Luxe and Even Bigger Comfy Luxe rooms and the Secret Garden, an extra bed for a child under 12 at extra cost in the Big Comfy Luxe, Even Bigger Comfy Luxe and Secret Garden, and one for a child under 13 in Rosemary's Hideaway at £20 a night. The Village Pub, across the road, is part of the same group.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner
- Rooms
- 24
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Restaurant · Bar · Spa · Parking
- History
- Grade II* listed house with a 1697 datestone; garden by Rosemary Verey
- Parking
- Free guest parking on gravel.
Photos
A Snug bedroom 
The hydro pool in the Fieldhouse spa 
The temple in the garden 
Barnsley House from the garden Photo: judy dean, CC BY 2.0, via Flickr
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Village Pub 0.2 km away
- The Crown at Ampney Brook 3.3 km away
- The Organic Farm Shop 3.5 km away
- Cotteswold House 3.8 km away
Sights nearby
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Ablington Manor
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Ablington Manor is an Elizabethan house in the hamlet of Ablington near Bibury, dated 1590 for John Coxwell, with five carved royal heads over its porch. Listed Grade I and a private home, it is seen from the lane through the hamlet.
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Arlington Row, Bibury
Sight · Historic building · Bibury
Arlington Row is a terrace of stone cottages above the mill stream in Bibury, built as a wool store in the late fourteenth century and turned into weavers' homes in the seventeenth. Grade I and owned by the National Trust, the cottages are lived in and seen from the path.
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River Coln
Sight · River · Cirencester and the Coln Valley
The limestone river of the south Cotswolds, rising near Sevenhampton and running south-east past Chedworth, Bibury and Arlington Row, Coln St Aldwyns, Quenington and Fairford to join the Thames at Inglesham above Lechlade. Five of our walks follow or cross it.
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St Mary's Church, Bibury
Sight · Church · Bibury
St Mary's in Bibury is a Saxon church grown over five centuries, with eleventh-century walling, Saxon stones in the chancel, carved capitals of the Oseney canons, the county's earliest stained glass and a Karl Parsons window of 1927. Grade I and open daily.