Inn · Stow-on-the-Wold
The Old Stocks Inn
A seventeenth-century coaching inn on the Square at Stow-on-the-Wold, with 16 rooms and a restaurant with two AA Rosettes.
Dog-friendly
On the Square itself, with a well-regarded restaurant. Dogs only in the garden rooms, and the eight parking spaces go to whoever arrives first.
- Good: Two AA Rosette restaurant
- Good: Breakfast included when you book direct
- Good: Dogs in the bar, library, conservatory and garden
- Worth knowing: Dogs in the garden rooms only, £15 a dog a night
- Worth knowing: Eight parking spaces, first come, first served
- Worth knowing: Two-night minimum on busy weekends
About
The Old Stocks Inn is a seventeenth-century coaching inn on the Square in Stow-on-the-Wold, a few steps from the market cross. It has 16 rooms of four kinds (great rooms, house rooms, garden rooms and family rooms), and some can take an extra single bed (£20 for a child, £40 for an adult) if you ask at least a week ahead.
The restaurant holds two AA Rosettes and cooks seasonal British food from local ingredients. It serves lunch every day from 12 to 3pm, Sunday lunch until 4pm, and dinner from 6pm to 9.30pm, or 8.30pm on Sundays. Breakfast, from 8am to 10.30am, is included when you book direct; booked through Booking.com or Expedia it costs £10. There is also a bar, a library, a conservatory and a garden.
Dogs are welcome in the bar, library, conservatory and garden, and can stay in the garden rooms for £15 a dog a night: one medium or two small, and no puppies under six months. They are not allowed in the restaurant, the cocktail lounge or the rooms in the main house.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast
| Monday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Wednesday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Thursday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Friday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Saturday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
| Sunday | 08:00 to 10:30 |
Restaurant
| Monday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
|---|---|
| Tuesday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Wednesday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Thursday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Friday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Saturday | 12:00 to 15:00, 18:00 to 21:30 |
| Sunday | 12:00 to 16:00, 18:00 to 20:30 |
Sunday lunch from 12 to 4pm.
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Booking a table
- Booking recommended
- Rooms
- 16
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am; noon on request
- Minimum stay
- Two nights on busy weekends; one night at other times.
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Parking · Family rooms · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Events and meetings
- Awards
- Two AA Rosettes
- History
- Seventeenth-century coaching inn
- Parking
- Eight spaces behind the inn, first come, first served. Front parking is free from 6pm to 9am, two hours otherwise; a free 24-hour car park by Tesco is about eight minutes' walk.
Photos
The bar 
A Great Room 
A family room 
From the restaurant
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Huffkins, Stow-on-the-Wold 0.1 km away
- Stow Lodge Hotel 0.1 km away
- The Kings Arms, Stow 0.1 km away
- The Old Bakery Tearoom 0.2 km away
Sights nearby
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Lower Swell war memorial
Sight · Monument · Stow-on-the-Wold
Lower Swell's war memorial is a flaming urn on a stone pedestal on the village green, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1921. Lutyens had worked at Abbotswood nearby for Mark Fenwick. It is on the Stow and Lower Swell walk, open at all times. Grade II.
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Market cross, Stow-on-the-Wold
Sight · Monument · Stow-on-the-Wold
Stow's market cross stands in the southern half of the Market Square: a medieval calvary and socket stone, probably of the fourteenth century, carrying a shaft and lantern head restored in 1878 and again in 1995, when its four carved panels were restored. Grade II and scheduled.
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St Edward's Church, Stow-on-the-Wold
Sight · Church · Stow-on-the-Wold
St Edward's is Stow-on-the-Wold's Grade I parish church, beside the Market Square, with a fifteenth-century tower seen across the wold and a north door framed by two yews. Royalist prisoners were held inside after the battle of 1646. Open daily.
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St Mary's Church, Lower Swell
Sight · Church · Stow-on-the-Wold
St Mary's at Lower Swell, a mile west of Stow, is two churches in one: a twelfth-century nave and chancel, now the south aisle and chapel, beside a larger church of 1852. Its Norman doorway has a Tree of Life tympanum and its old chancel arch rare carvings. Grade II*.