Eat and drink · Ilmington
The Howard Arms
A 400-year-old stone inn on Lower Green in Ilmington, with a log fire, a restaurant, a snug and a garden, eight bedrooms and food from breakfast to dinner every day.
Dog-friendly
One of Ilmington's two pubs, with breakfast every morning and food all afternoon on Sundays. Dogs are welcome in the bar and the garden but not the restaurant.
- Good: Breakfast every day, open to all
- Good: Sunday food from noon to 8pm
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar, bar dining area and garden
- Good: Eight en-suite bedrooms, one of them downstairs
- Worth knowing: No dogs in the restaurant or the bedrooms
- Worth knowing: Saturday dinner hours differ between its own pages
About
The Howard Arms faces the old chestnut tree on Lower Green in Ilmington, the village beneath the Cotswold escarpment. It is a stone inn it puts at about 400 years old, named after Lord Howard of Corby, with whom, it says, the lordship of the manor rests. Inside are broad flagstones, a fire that burns for most of the year, a restaurant, a snug, two bars and a garden, and there are eight en-suite bedrooms, one of them downstairs. Sawday's lists them as four doubles and four twins, with check-in from 2pm, check-out by 11am, cots for babies and an EV charger. Dogs are not allowed in the bedrooms, and the inn has its own off-street parking.
The head chef, Adam Pieprzak, cooks British pub favourites alongside his own dishes, with home-baked bread, game in season and Sunday roasts, plus a set lunch, a children's menu and a game tasting menu. Breakfast is served every day, from 7.30am on weekdays and 8am at weekends, and tea and coffee from 8am.
Lunch runs from noon to 2.30pm on weekdays and to 3pm on Saturdays, dinner from 5.30pm to 9pm (two of its pages give 9.15pm on Saturdays), and on Sundays and bank holidays food is served from noon to 8pm. Book online or by phone. The pub takes calls from 9am to 11pm every day.
Dogs are welcome in the bar, the bar dining area and the garden, though not in the restaurant or the bedrooms. The walk from Ilmington over Ebrington Hill to Hidcote starts in the village, and the Red Lion on Front Street is the other pub.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 09:30 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:00 |
Food served
| Monday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 14:30, 17:30 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 15:00, 17:30 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 20:00 |
Bank holidays noon to 8pm.
Bar
| Monday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
| Wednesday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 22:45 |
| Sunday | 11:00 to 22:15 |
Times are last orders.
Tea and coffee from 8am every day.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 8
- Features
- Garden or terrace · Open fire · Real ale · Restaurant · Bar · Dogs inside
- Awards
- Pub of the Year, West Midlands Tourism Awards (2020)
- Pub of the Year, West Midlands Tourism Awards (2026)
- History
- A 400-year-old Cotswold-stone inn
Photos
By the fire 
The dining room 
A bedroom 
The garden
Location
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Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Red Lion, Ilmington 0.2 km away
- Hidcote 3.8 km away
- Kiftsgate Court Gardens 4.1 km away
- The Ebrington Arms 4.7 km away
Sights nearby
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St Mary's Church, Ilmington
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St Mary's Church in Ilmington, below the hills north-west of Shipston-on-Stour, is a Norman church of the mid twelfth century with a sixteenth-century porch and eleven carved mice hidden in its oak pews by Robert Thompson of Kilburn. Grade I; open daily from 9am.