Hotel · Cirencester
The King's Head
A former coaching inn on Cirencester's Market Place with 63 bedrooms, one of Brakspear's Honeycomb Houses, open from 7am daily, with dog-friendly dining.
Dog-friendly
A large hotel right on the Market Place, with breakfast from 7am and dog-friendly dining in the pub. Dogs can stay in certain rooms for a fee, so ask when booking.
- Good: Dog-friendly dining in the pub
- Worth knowing: Dogs in certain rooms only, £20 a dog a night, two at most (per Expedia)
- Worth knowing: No parking of its own (per Expedia)
- Good: On the Market Place
About
The King's Head is a former coaching inn on the Market Place in Cirencester, one of Brakspear's Honeycomb Houses since Brakspear bought it in 2025, with 63 bedrooms, from classic and superior rooms to junior suites in the Georgian part of the building and a family suite. It opens from 7am every day (to 11pm, 10pm on Sundays), with breakfast from 7am to 10am, lunch from 11am to 3pm and dinner from 5pm to 9pm, Monday to Saturday, and Sunday roasts from noon to 8pm. Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 11am. Brakspear lists it as dog friendly and the pub offers dog-friendly dining; on Expedia, dogs can stay in certain rooms at £20 a dog a night, with two at most, and the pet-friendly rooms have to be requested through the hotel. Expedia also says the hotel has no parking of its own, so use a public car park nearby, and lists a lift, three floors and wheelchair access with limitations, so ask the hotel what it can do for you. There is also a vaulted cellar used for events.
The details
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
Photos
A bedroom suite 
The vaulted cellar 
The courtyard 
The ballroom
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Fleece 0.1 km away
- New Brewery Arts 0.1 km away
- Sam & Jak 0.1 km away
- Black Horse 0.1 km away
Sights nearby
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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.
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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.