Inn · Cirencester
The Fleece
An inn with rooms on Cirencester's Market Place, run by Thwaites, with stays from £125 a room and dogs welcome in the bar.
On the Market Place, so the Charter Market is on the doorstep on Mondays and Fridays.
- Good: On the Market Place, in the middle of town
- Good: Best rate when booked on its own website
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar, and in rooms for £20 a stay
- Worth knowing: Tables are held for two hours
- Worth knowing: No car park of its own, and no ground-floor bedrooms
About
The Fleece is an inn with rooms on the Market Place in Cirencester, run by the Thwaites brewery and a few steps from the parish church of St John the Baptist. Its website quoted stays from £125 a room in 2026, with the best rate kept for bookings made direct.
Downstairs is a bar and a restaurant cooking from scratch with seasonal produce from Cotswold suppliers. There are separate brunch and Sunday lunch menus, and set offers through the year, such as a venison Wellington menu on Wednesdays from midday in the autumn (30 September to 18 November in 2026). Dogs are welcome in the bar but not in the dining-only areas; mention your dog when you book and you will get a dog-friendly table. Tables are held for two hours, and groups of more than six should phone.
It suits a short break in the middle of town, with the shops, the church and the Charter Market outside the door. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out before 11am, with late check-out to 1pm for £20 when there is room. Dogs can stay for £20 a stay; ring first. The inn has no car park: its own advice is to unload at the front and park in the Waterloo car park, about four minutes' walk away. Because the building is old, there are no ground-floor bedrooms. The inn does not publish its number of rooms, so ask when you book.
The details
- Serving
- Brunch · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- Before 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Dogs inside · Dogs in rooms
- Parking
- No car park of its own; the Waterloo car park (GL7 2PZ) is about four minutes' walk away. You can unload at the front first.
Photos
The restaurant 
A bedroom 
Pub food 
Dinner by the fire
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The King's Head 0.1 km away
- Sam & Jak 0.2 km away
- New Brewery Arts 0.2 km away
- Black Horse 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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St John the Baptist, Cirencester
Sight · Church · Cirencester
Cirencester's great wool church on the Market Place, free to visit: a fifteenth-century tower you can climb on set Saturdays, a three-storey porch of about 1490 that served as the town hall, fan vaults, medieval glass and the Boleyn Cup. Grade I.
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Cirencester Park
Sight · Common or park · Cirencester
The Bathurst family's landscape park on the western edge of Cirencester, planted from 1714 by the first Earl Bathurst with Alexander Pope: 8km of rides and woods along the Broad Ride, with Pope's Seat and Alfred's Hall. Grade I registered; a day pass is needed.
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Pope's Seat, Cirencester Park
Sight · Historic building · Cirencester
A small stone pavilion of the early eighteenth century at Seven Rides in Cirencester Park, with a Doric portico and POPE'S SEAT cut in its pediment, named after the poet who helped Lord Bathurst lay out the park. Grade II*; a park day pass is needed.