Self-catering · Nailsworth
Woodchester Valley Vineyard stays
Three barn suites for two, a two-bedroom farmhouse and a six-bedroom house among the vines at Woodchester Valley Vineyard, near Nailsworth.
Dog-friendly
Stay among the vines next to a working winery: the barns for a couple, the Retreat or the House for a family or group with a dog.
- Good: Barn suites from £165 a night
- Good: The Retreat and the House take dogs, £20 each
- Good: The House sleeps 12, with parking for six cars
- Worth knowing: No children or pets in the barn suites
- Worth knowing: Check-out by 10am
- Worth knowing: Cleaning fees: £100 on the Retreat, £250 on the House
About
Woodchester Valley Vineyard is a vineyard and winery on Convent Lane at Woodchester, between Nailsworth and Stroud, where Fiona Shiner planted the first vines in 2007. It makes single-estate wines from its own grapes, and they have won awards. Beside the vines it lets three kinds of self-catering stay. Woodchester Park is a short drive west.
The Vineyard Barns are three suites for two adults, Inchbrook, Amberley and Doverow, each with a king or super king bed, a gas log burner, underfloor heating, a kettle, microwave and mini-fridge, and a private terrace, from £165 a night, with £20 a night extra for Inchbrook. Children and pets cannot stay in them. The Retreat Farmhouse sleeps four in two super king bedrooms, from £200 a night plus a £100 cleaning fee, and has an enclosed garden; babies under a year and children over 11 can stay there. Woodchester Valley House has six bedrooms and sleeps 12, with a sofa bed for two more children, parking for six cars, a pay-per-use EV charger and a hot tub to hire; its cleaning fee is £250. Dogs are welcome in the Retreat and the House for £20 each. They may not go in the Retreat's bedrooms, and may not go on soft furnishings in either, or on beds in the House.
Check-in is from 3pm and check-out by 10am. The vineyard itself is open only for pre-booked tours, tastings and events; the cellar door shop is on the Bath Road at Inchbrook and opens every day except Sundays in January and February.
Opening hours and season
Shop
| Monday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Wednesday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Thursday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 to 18:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 to 17:00 |
Cellar door at Inchbrook Trading Estate, Bath Road, GL5 5EY, not at the vineyard. Closed on Sundays in January and February.
The vineyard on Convent Lane opens only for pre-booked tours, events and stays.
The details
- Rooms
- 5
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 10am
- Minimum stay
- Barns two nights at weekends; Retreat two midweek, three at weekends; House two or three nights by season
- Features
- Parking · Wi-Fi · Guided tours · Shop · Garden or terrace
- Parking
- The Retreat has a private drive and car port; the House has secure parking for six cars.
Photos
The vineyard from the air 
The wines 
Stay at the vineyard 
The vineyard in its valley
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Woodchester Valley Vineyard
- Dunkirk Mill Museum 1.1 km away
- The Black Horse, Amberley 1.1 km away
- The Amberley Inn 1.1 km away
Sights nearby
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Woodchester Park
Sight · Common or park · Nailsworth
A steep wooded valley west of Nailsworth, National Trust since 1994: a deer park walled by the Huntleys after a grant of 1564, with five lakes of the early nineteenth century, a boathouse of about 1820 and the unfinished Woodchester Mansion at its head.
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Woodchester Park boathouse
Sight · Historic building · Nailsworth
The boathouse on Old Pond in Woodchester Park is a small rustic building of about 1820, probably by John Adey Repton for the first Earl Ducie, with a boat dock below and a timber oriel over the boat opening. Grade II; seen from the path over the dam.
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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.
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Minchinhampton Common
Sight · Common or park · Minchinhampton
Minchinhampton Common is a wide sweep of limestone grassland above Stroud and Nailsworth, in the care of the National Trust since 1913, where commoners' cattle graze and an Iron Age bank, a long barrow, pillow mounds and wartime trenches lie in the turf. Free to wander.