Inn · Lower Slaughter
The Slaughters Country Inn
An inn in Lower Slaughter, bought and renamed by the Brownsword family in 2011, with dog rooms and a Field Kitchen from April to September.
Dog-friendly · Family-friendly · Walker-friendly
An inn in Lower Slaughter with dog rooms booked by phone, family suites and cottages, and an outdoor Field Kitchen in the warmer months. Lunch runs all afternoon.
- Good: Lunch from midday to 5pm every day
- Good: Five ground-floor courtyard rooms, two suited to wheelchair users
- Good: Field Kitchen in the garden, April to September
- Worth knowing: Dogs £10 a night each, not in the restaurant or lounges
- Worth knowing: Children over 2 pay the adult rate
About
The Slaughters Country Inn is in Lower Slaughter, a couple of minutes' walk from the Old Mill. It was known as Washbourne's Place after the family who owned it in 1470, began as three farm-workers' cottages with a stable block, and was later a private house and an Eton cramming school. It opened as a hotel in 1988, and the Brownsword family bought it in 2011 and gave it its present name.
The kitchen serves lunch from midday to 5pm and dinner from 6.30pm to 9pm every day, with a Sunday lunch menu from midday to 5pm at £27.50 for a main, £34.50 for two courses or £39.50 for three. From April to September a Field Kitchen in the garden serves bagels, flatbreads and ice cream, and there is a terrace for eating outside. Booking a table is recommended.
Rooms range from classic doubles with beams to junior suites, with three family suites, interconnecting rooms and six two-storey cottages a few steps from the inn, each with the bedroom upstairs and a sofa bed in the living area below. Reception hands out walking maps. Dogs stay in particular rooms booked by phone, for £10 a dog a night, but are not allowed in the restaurant or the lounges. Children up to two stay free; older children pay the adult rate. It is a stop on the 10-mile circular walk from Bourton-on-the-Water through the Slaughters to Naunton.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Wednesday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Thursday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Friday | 07:30 to 10:00 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
8am to 10.30am on bank holidays too.
Restaurant
| Monday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 17:00, 18:30 to 21:00 |
Families can dine together until 8pm. Sunday lunch menu from midday to 5pm.
Reception is staffed 24 hours. The Field Kitchen in the garden serves from April to September, weather permitting.
The details
- Food
- Pub classics · Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Vegan dishes · Children's menu
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Dogs in rooms · Family rooms · Accessible rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- History
- Washbourne's Place in 1470; a hotel since 1988
- Parking
- Level tarmac car park at the rear with one disabled space; a car can be left beside the courtyard rooms, and there is a brief drop-off at the front door for wheelchair users.
Photos
The inn 
The bar 
A bedroom 
The restaurant
Location
Accessibility
- Step-free access
- Accessible toilet
- Assistance dogs welcome
Reception is two steps down; the bar door to its left is step-free and all on one level. Unisex accessible toilet at reception. Five ground-floor courtyard bedrooms; Southlawn (wet room with grab rails and seat) and Durnford suit wheelchair users. Main restaurant route has three steps; the alternative is a rear door with one step, and a ramp can be put out.
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Slaughters Manor House 0.3 km away
- Lords of the Manor 1.0 km away
- Holly House 1.2 km away
- The Mousetrap Inn 1.6 km away
Sights nearby
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Manor House, Upper Slaughter
Sight · Historic building · Upper Slaughter
Upper Slaughter's Elizabethan manor house, Grade I, home of the Slaughter family until 1741: gabled Cotswold stone over a fifteenth-century vaulted basement, with a two-storey porch of the early seventeenth century covered in fretwork. A private house, seen from the lane.
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St Mary's Church, Lower Slaughter
Sight · Church · Lower Slaughter
Lower Slaughter's church, almost entirely rebuilt in 1867 for the Whitmore family, lords of the manor, but keeping a north arcade of around 1200, with a broad spire behind a pierced parapet. Grade II*; open, with a ramp.
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St Peter's Church, Upper Slaughter
Sight · Church · Upper Slaughter
Upper Slaughter's church, above the ford over the River Eye: a twelfth-century nave, a tower built from reused Norman stone, and the mortuary chapel of the diarist Francis Witts, rector here for 46 years. Grade II*; open every day.
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The Old Mill, Lower Slaughter
Sight · Historic building · Lower Slaughter
The red-brick mill with its tall chimney and iron water wheel at the top of Lower Slaughter, on the River Eye: early nineteenth century, on a site milled since at least 1502. Grade II. The museum and shop closed in 2023, when the mill was sold; check before visiting.