Self-catering · Nailsworth
Old Fleece apartments
Three self-catering apartments behind the Old Fleece pub at Rooksmoor, between Nailsworth and Stroud, with an EV charging point and the garden.
EV charging
Apartments of three sizes behind a pub, with your own door, so you can come and go and eat downstairs when you do not want to cook.
- Good: Three sizes, from a studio to a two-bedroom loft
- Good: Own entrance from the back of the pub
- Good: EV charging point
- Good: Use of the back garden
About
The Old Fleece apartments are three self-catering lets behind the Old Fleece pub at Rooksmoor, on the A46 between Nailsworth and Stroud. The pub and the apartments belong to Food Club, which also runs the Old Lodge on Minchinhampton Common.
The Apartment has two double bedrooms and a shower room. The Loft has a king-size and a double bedroom, with a family bathroom and a separate walk-in shower. The Studio has an en suite shower room and a sofa bed in the lounge. Each has an open-plan kitchen and lounge with a television, and guests can use the back garden.
The apartments are reached from the back of the pub, so guests come and go as they please, and there is an EV charging point. They are booked online through eviivo. Food Club also lets the three-bedroom Grigshot Apartment in a Georgian townhouse, and the Coach House and the Stable, which can be taken separately or together; these are booked separately and are not part of the Old Fleece.
Trip.com lists check-in from 3pm to 10pm and check-out by 11am, free parking on site, and pets allowed on request; it says cots and extra beds cannot be added. Airbnb lists the Apartment for up to four guests, and the host there says a small charge is added for pets.
The details
- Rooms
- 3
- Features
- Garden or terrace
- Parking
- Free parking on site, as listed on Trip.com and Airbnb.
Photos
The Old Fleece, Rooksmoor Photo: Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons 
A bedroom under the eaves 
An apartment kitchen 
A sitting room with kitchenette
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Bell Inn, Selsley 1.0 km away
- The Bear of Rodborough 1.2 km away
- Winstones Ice Cream, Rodborough Common 1.3 km away
- The Prince Albert 1.4 km away
Sights nearby
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Rodborough Common
Sight · Common or park · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Open limestone grassland on the hill between Stroud and the Golden Valley, owned by the National Trust, known for rare pasqueflowers in spring, early purple orchids in May and over 30 kinds of butterfly, grazed by commoners’ cattle, with Rodborough Fort on its brow.
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Rodborough Fort
Sight · Historic building · Stroud and the Five Valleys
Rodborough Fort is a battlemented house on the brow of Rodborough Common above Stroud, begun as a folly for Captain Hawker in 1761 and enlarged in 1870 with a four-storey tower, turreted curtain walls and a small chapel. Grade II; a private house, seen from the common.
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All Saints' Church, Selsley
Sight · Church · Stroud and the Five Valleys
All Saints, Selsley is a Grade I church of 1862 by G F Bodley on the hillside above Stroud, with some of the first church glass made by Morris and Company: windows by Morris, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Madox Brown and Philip Webb, among them a Creation rose window. Open in daylight.
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Whitfield's Tump, Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · Minchinhampton
Whitfield's Tump is a Neolithic long barrow on Minchinhampton Common, a low mound 26m long where early farmers buried their dead, named from the tradition that the preacher George Whitefield spoke from it in 1743. A scheduled monument on free National Trust land.