B&B · Painswick
St Anne's
A three-room bed and breakfast in a former wool merchant's house on Gloucester Street, Painswick, suited to Cotswold Way walkers.
Dog-friendly · Walker-friendly · Car-free
Small and personal, and right for walkers on the Cotswold Way, with trail pick-ups, luggage transfers and somewhere to dry your boots. The stairs are steep, so it suits the sure-footed.
- Good: On the Cotswold Way, with trail pick-ups for two-night stays
- Good: Organic breakfast included; picnic lunches on request
- Good: One room takes a dog, by arrangement, for £15 a night
- Worth knowing: All rooms are up 14 stairs, and the owners warn of trip hazards
- Worth knowing: Limited street parking; the free car park is about 320m away
About
St Anne's is a bed and breakfast with three rooms in a former wool merchant's house on Gloucester Street, Painswick. The house is listed Grade II and kept in a country-house style, with antiques and a log fire. There are two king-size doubles, one with a four-poster, and a twin, all on the first floor and all en suite.
It sits on the Cotswold Way and close to the Wysis Way, and is set up for walkers: guests staying two nights can be picked up from the trail and dropped back, and the owners arrange luggage transfers and picnic lunches, with a place to dry wet clothes and leave muddy boots. Breakfast is organic and included in the rate.
The village pubs and restaurants and the Rococo Garden are within walking distance. When we checked in October 2026, its website gave £150 a night for a double or twin and £125 for one person, with breakfast. One room takes a dog by prior arrangement, and the owners have two dogs of their own.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 3
- Check-in
- From 4pm
- Features
- Open fire · Dogs in rooms
- History
- A former wool merchant's house, listed Grade II, with a Georgian front
- Parking
- Limited free street parking on Gloucester Street, from about 20m away, and a free village car park on Stamages Lane about 320m away.
- Without a car
- Stagecoach West's 66 runs between Stroud and Cheltenham through Painswick about hourly in the day, less often on Sundays. Stroud has a mainline station with hourly trains to London.
Photos
The breakfast room 
The four-poster room 
A double room 
The twin room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Falcon Inn 0.2 km away
- Barn Cottage, Painswick 0.2 km away
- Stable Cottage, Painswick 0.2 km away
- The Painswick 0.3 km away
Sights nearby
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Painswick Stream
Sight · River · Painswick
The Painswick Stream runs south in the valley below Painswick to the River Frome at Stroud. It drove the town's cloth trade: 25 mills stood in the parish in 1820. Footpaths follow it past Loveday's Mill, Skinners Mill and Kingsmill, old mills that are now homes.
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Quaker Meeting House, Painswick
Sight · Historic building · Painswick
Painswick's Friends Meeting House is a plain stone meeting house of 1706 off Vicarage Street, built on land given by the Loveday family and still used by Quakers every Sunday. Its walled garden, an old burial ground, is open for quiet reflection. Grade II.
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St Mary's Church, Painswick
Sight · Church · Painswick
St Mary's is Painswick's Grade I parish church, of the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries with a tall stone spire, set in a churchyard of clipped yews and carved table tombs that is on the national Register of Parks and Gardens. Open daily; the clipping is each September.
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Court House, Painswick
Sight · Historic building · Painswick
The Court House is a gabled stone manor house of 1604 on Hale Lane, beside Painswick churchyard, with a panelled court room and a bedroom named after Charles I. Listed Grade I, it is a private home seen from the lane and the churchyard.