B&B · Chipping Sodbury
The Moda House
A bed and breakfast in a Grade II* listed house of the late seventeenth century that closes the top of Chipping Sodbury's High Street, with eight en-suite rooms and breakfast cooked on the Aga.
A town-centre B&B in the handsome baroque house at the top of the High Street, with free parking for guests. Good value for a night or two on the Cotswold Way; book by phone or email, as there is no online booking.
- Good: Doubles from £85 a night, breakfast included
- Good: Free parking and Wi-Fi, a short walk from the High Street pubs
- Good: Breakfast cooked on the Aga from local produce
- Worth knowing: Booking by phone, email or enquiry form only
- Worth knowing: Snug doubles are small; one on the top floor is under exposed beams
- Worth knowing: Breakfast ends at 8am on weekdays
About
The Moda House stands at the top of the High Street in Chipping Sodbury, a three-storey house of the late seventeenth century, remodelled in the early eighteenth in painted Bath stone, which Historic England lists at Grade II* as a good example of English provincial baroque. The house says it once held the Bank of Chipping Sodbury, which issued its own notes, and in the late nineteenth century a doctor related to W.G. Grace ran his practice here. The name came later, from a doctor who called the house after a suburb of Constantinople where he grew up. It became a hotel in the early 1970s.
There are eight en-suite rooms, all with power showers and televisions. The four super king rooms on the first and top floors are the roomiest, with one king room on the second floor; the three snug doubles are small, and one of the two on the top floor sits under exposed beams. Several look out over the town's long medieval burgage plots or down the High Street. Rooms cost from £85 a night for a snug double, £95 for the king and £105 for a super king, with a full breakfast cooked on the Aga.
Parking and Wi-Fi are free, and there is a meeting room for up to 12 people. You book by phone, email or the enquiry form; a card number or deposit secures the room, and cancelling less than 72 hours before arrival is charged. Sawday's, which lists the house, gives it as no smoking anywhere, with the owners' own pets living there. The parish church and the High Street's pubs are a few minutes' walk away, and the walk up to Old Sodbury and the hill fort joins the Cotswold Way above the town.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 8
- Check-in
- 4pm to 8pm
- Check-out
- By 10.30am
- Minimum stay
- One night; two on some weekends and three during the Badminton Horse Trials.
- Features
- Parking · Wi-Fi
- History
- Late 17th-century house, remodelled in the 18th century
- Parking
- Free parking for guests.
Photos
A super king bedroom 
The breakfast room 
The meeting room 
A bedroom
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Chipping Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Chipping Sodbury's Grade I parish church off Wickwar Road, dedicated in 1284 and rebuilt larger in the fifteenth century, with a tower over 30m tall holding eight bells, a fan-vaulted pulpit built into the arcade, St Katherine's chapel and a thirteenth-century font.
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St John the Baptist, Old Sodbury
Sight · Church · Chipping Sodbury
Old Sodbury's hilltop church of Norman origin, on the Cotswold Way above the village, with a fifteenth-century tower and two rare knights' effigies: one carved in wood in the fourteenth century, one in stone about 1240. Grade II*.
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Sodbury Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
An Iron Age hill fort with two wide-spaced ramparts on the Cotswold edge above Old Sodbury, where Edward IV camped on his way to the battle of Tewkesbury in 1471. A scheduled monument, crossed by the Cotswold Way and our stile-free circuit from the village.
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Horton Camp hill fort
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Chipping Sodbury
A small Iron Age hill fort on a spur of the Cotswold edge above Horton, north of Old Sodbury: one rampart 3m high on the plateau side and steep natural slopes on the rest, never excavated. A scheduled monument beside the Cotswold Way.