Inn · Kingham
The Feathered Nest Inn
An inn with four rooms and a cottage at Nether Westcote near Kingham, in a building that began 350 years ago as a malt house.
Wedding venues
Small and personal: four rooms and a cottage in an old malt house, with a kitchen that holds three AA Rosettes. Check the days, as it closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- Good: Three AA Rosettes for the kitchen
- Good: Views over the Evenlode valley
- Worth knowing: Closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays
- Worth knowing: All bedrooms are upstairs, with no lift
- Worth knowing: Dogs stay only in the Cottage, £25 a stay
- Good: Dogs welcome in the bar, snug and terrace
About
The Feathered Nest is a country inn at Nether Westcote, about 3 miles south-west of Kingham. The building began about 350 years ago as a malt house. It looks across the Evenlode valley, with a dining terrace and a sloping lawn below the car park.
It is known first for its food. The kitchen holds three AA Rosettes and serves an à la carte menu and a six-course tasting menu at lunch and dinner, with Sunday lunch and an all-day bar menu. The AA also lists its wine as notable and has given it a breakfast award.
There are four en suite bedrooms, from a double to the large Cuckoo's Den with a roll-top bath, and an adjoining cottage with a super-king bed upstairs, a sofa bed in the flagstoned lounge, an open fire and a kitchenette. Sawday's lists the cottage as sleeping four, with a minimum stay of two nights at weekends; the inn's own booking page also gives four, with the sofa bed at £25 an extra adult or £15 an extra child, breakfast included. Breakfast is served in the inn on Tuesday and Thursday mornings, and cottage guests get a continental breakfast in the cottage on Wednesdays, because the inn is shut on Tuesday and Wednesday. Dogs can stay in the cottage only, and are welcome in the bar, snug and terrace. Rooms are ready from 2.30pm and must be left by 11am, and the room terms ask for a 50% deposit, with cancellation in writing at least 72 hours before arrival. The inn closes on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and the old building has uneven floors and stairs to every room, so it suits couples who come to eat well rather than anyone who needs level access to a bedroom.
Opening hours and season
Closed, opens Mon 9, 11:00
| Mon | Opening | Restaurant |
|---|---|---|
| Monday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:15, 18:30 to 20:30 |
| Tuesday | Closed | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed | Closed |
| Thursday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:15, 18:30 to 20:30 |
| Friday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:15, 18:30 to 20:30 |
| Saturday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 14:15, 18:30 to 20:30 |
| Sunday | 11:00 to 23:00 | 12:00 to 15:30, 19:00 to 20:30 |
Restaurant: Sunday lunch to 3.30pm. Bar snacks through the day.
Inn, bar and restaurant closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
The details
- Food
- Fine dining
- Serving
- Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 5
- Check-in
- From 2.30pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Views · Parking · Events and meetings · Dogs inside
- Awards
- Three AA Rosettes
- AA Notable Wine List
- AA Breakfast Award
- History
- A malt house about 350 years ago
- Parking
- Gravel car park at the inn, with level access to the dining terrace.
Photos
From the kitchen 
The bar 
A bedroom 
By the fire
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The King's Head Inn, Bledington 3.1 km away
- The Sheiling 3.2 km away
- The Lamb Inn, Great Rissington 3.9 km away
- The Hare, Milton-under-Wychwood 4.4 km away
Sights nearby
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St Leonard's Church, Bledington
Sight · Church · Kingham
Bledington's Grade I church by the green, recorded in 1175 and rebuilt in the fifteenth century, with fifteenth-century painted glass, one panel dated 1470, a Norman tub font and a tower built inside the nave. Open daily.
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St Laurence's Church, Wyck Rissington
Sight · Church · Bourton-on-the-Water
St Laurence's is the Grade I church of Wyck Rissington near Bourton-on-the-Water, consecrated in 1269, where the young Gustav Holst was organist in 1892 and 1893. It keeps a Norman corbel table, diamond-shaped lights and a mosaic of a rector's lost maze. Open daily in daylight.
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River Evenlode
Sight · River · Kingham
The Evenlode is the river of the valley below Kingham, rising in the Cotswold limestone and flowing south-east to the Thames; near Kingham it runs beside the Cotswold Line past Bledington and Daylesford and for a stretch marks the Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire boundary.
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St Andrew's Church, Kingham
Sight · Church · Kingham
Kingham's ironstone church of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, with a pinnacled tower, a nave roof dated 1774, an Elizabethan brass in the Easter Sepulchre and the old rectory of 1688 next door. Grade II*.