Hotel · Broadway
The Lygon Arms
A historic coaching inn on Broadway's High Street, first recorded in 1377, now a hotel with James Martin's Grill and Tavern, a spa with a pool, and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Wedding venues · EV charging
The historic choice in Broadway, in the middle of the High Street, with a spa and pool for wet days, two James Martin restaurants and room for the dog. There is no lift, so ask about the layout if stairs matter.
- Good: Spa with a 13m indoor pool, sauna and steam room
- Good: Dogs welcome in rooms, bars and lounges
- Good: AA four red stars
- Good: Accessible rooms with level showers or wet rooms
- Worth knowing: No lift
- Worth knowing: Dogs cost £30 each a night, and not in the Grill or spa
About
The Lygon Arms stands on the High Street in Broadway. The hotel traces an inn on the site, then the White Hart, to 1377, and it served coaches on the roads between London and Wales. The present building, listed Grade II*, is early 17th century, with the date 1620 carved over the front door. The hotel says Charles I met his supporters here and Oliver Cromwell stayed before the Battle of Worcester in 1651. In 1904 Gordon Russell's father, Sydney Bolton Russell, bought the inn to make it a country hotel, and the family's restoration workshop, where the young designer started, furnished its rooms. The Charles I Suite and the Gordon Russell Suite are named after them.
The food is by James Martin. The Grill is the fine-dining room, cooking from seasonal, local produce, and the Tavern, on the High Street, serves small plates and snacks with local cider and ale, every day from 12pm to 3pm and from 6pm. Afternoon tea is served in the Russell Room at 12pm, 2pm and 4pm, from £39.50 a person in 2026, and vegan and other diets are catered for with 24 hours' notice.
There are 86 bedrooms, in the main house, the courtyard, an annexe and a cottage nearby, from cosy singles to the Charles I Suite, and Booking.com lists check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am. The spa has a 13-metre indoor pool with a retractable roof, a sauna, a steam room, a hot tub and a gym, takes guests from the age of 17, and sells spa days to non-residents. Dogs a year old or more are welcome for £30 each a night, in the rooms and the public areas, including the Russell Room, the Lygon Bar, the lounges and the Tavern's bar, but not the Grill or the spa. Six chargers for electric cars stand in the car park behind the hotel. The hotel lists AA four red stars and a run of recent awards, and hosts weddings.
The Broadway and Broadway Tower walk starts a few steps away and climbs to Broadway Tower on the Cotswold Way.
Opening hours and season
The Tavern by James Martin on the High Street serves daily from 12pm to 3pm and from 6pm. Afternoon tea is in the Russell Room.
The details
- Food
- Modern British · Fine dining · Pub classics
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Afternoon tea
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes
- Rooms
- 86
- Check-in
- From 3pm, as listed on Booking.com
- Check-out
- By 11am, as listed on Booking.com
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Spa · Swimming pool · Gym · Garden or terrace · Open fire · Accessible rooms · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Parking · Events and meetings
- Awards
- AA four red stars
- Good Hotel Guide Editor's Choice (2024)
- Hotel of the Year, Worcestershire Tourism Awards (2025/26)
- The Telegraph's 250 best hotels in the UK (2026)
- Large Hotel of the Year, Visit Worcestershire (2024)
- Best Hotel in the Cotswolds, The Cotswolds Awards (2023)
- History
- First recorded as the White Hart in 1377
- Parking
- Private car park behind the hotel, off Back Lane, with valet parking and two accessible spaces; register your car at reception. Six EV chargers, 45p a kWh by the Fuuse app; bring a cable.
- Without a car
- Evesham station is about 15 minutes away by taxi; trains from London Paddington to Evesham take about 1 hour 50 minutes.
Photos
The lounge 
A bedroom 
Afternoon tea 
The sitting room
Location
Accessibility
- Step-free access
- Accessible toilet
Designated accessible rooms with level showers or wet rooms. Two accessible parking spaces, and level or ramped access from the car park to reception, the bars, restaurants and grounds. Accessible toilets. No lift, and no access to the private function rooms.
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Broadway Deli 0.0 km away
- Gordon Russell Design Museum 0.1 km away
- The Broadway Hotel 0.1 km away
- House of George 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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St Eadburgha's Church, Broadway
Sight · Church · Broadway
St Eadburgha's is Broadway's old parish church, out on Snowshill Road a mile from the village: a cross-shaped church of the twelfth century and about 1400, with a crossing tower, Tudor and Stuart brasses and medieval woodwork. Grade I; open daily, 10am to 4pm.
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St Barnabas's Church, Snowshill
Sight · Church · Snowshill
St Barnabas is Snowshill's village church, rebuilt in 1864 in coursed stone with a three-stage west tower and a clock, and keeping a fifteenth-century font. It stands beside Snowshill Manor, and it and the cottages round it were filmed for Bridget Jones's Diary. Grade II.
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Kiftsgate Stone
Sight · Monument · Chipping Campden
A small holed standing stone on the Cotswold edge west of Chipping Campden, the meeting place of the hundred of Kiftsgate, where the proclamations of new monarchs were read up to William IV in 1830. A scheduled monument about 30m from the Cotswold Way.
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St Michael and All Angels, Stanton
Sight · Church · Stanton
St Michael and All Angels is Stanton's Grade I church, of the twelfth to seventeenth century, with a spired west tower, medieval wall paintings and a rood loft and east window by Sir Ninian Comper. It stands on Church Lane, by the cross and the Cotswold Way.