Hotel · Stroud
Stonehouse Court
A seventeenth-century manor house hotel in six acres at Stonehouse, near Stroud, with 44 rooms, a brasserie using its own kitchen garden, and weddings.
Wedding venues
Plenty of rooms in a seventeenth-century manor house with six acres of grounds, and a brasserie that cooks from its own kitchen garden. A wedding venue too, so check for weekend parties.
- Good: 44 rooms, from the manor house to the newer Little Court
- Good: Six acres of grounds
- Good: Brasserie with its own kitchen garden, afternoon tea and a Sunday roast
- Good: Free car park at the front, with marked disabled bays
- Worth knowing: Six steps up to reception; ask about dogs in bedrooms when booking
About
Stonehouse Court on Bristol Road, Stonehouse, near Stroud, is a hotel in a seventeenth-century manor house with six acres of grounds. Its 44 rooms are spread between the manor house, a Garden Wing added in the 1980s and the newer Little Court, and range from doubles and a Garden Wing family room to suites in the manor. The hotel dates the house to 1601; it was gutted by fire in 1908, rebuilt, and has been a hotel since 1984.
The Court Brasserie, in the main building, cooks with produce from the hotel's own kitchen garden and local suppliers, and tables can be booked online. It serves afternoon tea, with scones, cakes and sandwiches and the option of champagne or gin, and a Sunday roast.
The hotel is a wedding venue with civil ceremonies and packages, and also hosts private dining, celebrations, meetings and work retreats. There is a free car park at the front, according to the hotel's accessibility statement, and dogs are welcome in the lounge, bar, library, gardens and terrace; it does not say whether they can stay in the bedrooms, so ask when you book. Its website gives no check-in times; Trip.com lists check-in from 3pm and check-out by 11am.
On access, the same statement says there are six steps up to reception and seven more to the restaurant, while the gardens and terrace can be reached from the side without steps. Two ground-floor Garden Wing rooms suit guests with restricted mobility, one with a walk-in shower, though neither has grab rails. The hotel points out that Stonehouse station has direct trains from London, and that bus stops are about ten minutes' walk away.
The details
- Serving
- Afternoon tea · Sunday lunch
- Rooms
- 44
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Garden or terrace · Family rooms · Private dining · Events and meetings
- History
- Seventeenth-century manor house; Garden Wing added in the 1980s
- Parking
- Free car park at the front of the hotel, with marked disabled spaces, the hotel says.
Photos
From the air 
A bedroom 
The bar 
A double room
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Vine Tree Inn 3.5 km away
- Nympsfield Long Barrow 3.8 km away
- The Bell Inn, Selsley 3.9 km away
- Woodchester Mansion 3.9 km away
Sights nearby
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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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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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Standish Wood
Sight · Wood · Stroud and the Five Valleys
A National Trust beech wood on the Cotswold scarp below Haresfield Beacon near Stroud, known for bluebells and wild garlic in spring, with veteran beeches over 200 years old at Shortwood, a Neolithic long barrow on the ridge nearby and the Cotswold Way running through it.