Hotel · Tetbury
Hare and Hounds
A hotel at Westonbirt near Tetbury, close to the National Arboretum, with the Gamekeeper's Cottage and its hot tub next door, and dogs welcome.
Dog-friendly · Hot tubs · Wedding venues
The place to stay for Westonbirt, and dog-friendly, which suits the arboretum's Silk Wood.
- Good: Dog-friendly rooms; dogs welcome in the bar and garden
- Good: Gamekeeper's Cottage has its own garden and hot tub
- Good: Free Wi-Fi and a free residents' car park
- Worth knowing: Dogs £20 a night (£10 for each extra dog), not in the restaurant
- Worth knowing: No lift
- Worth knowing: Kemble station is about seven miles away
About
The Hare and Hounds is a hotel on the Bath Road at Westonbirt, about three miles south-west of Tetbury and close to Westonbirt, the National Arboretum. It is one of the Cotswold Inns and Hotels group, set in its own gardens and woodland.
Rooms are spread across the main house, the coach house, a garden cottage and Silkwood Court, where the Magnolia Suite has a garden terrace and its own hot tub. The Gamekeeper's Cottage next door is a stone cottage with a lounge and a private garden with a hot tub. There are two places to eat: Jack Hare's Bar, a pub-style bar serving food from morning coffee to dinner, with a garden and sun terrace, and the Beaufort Restaurant, with an à la carte menu. The hotel describes its cooking as classic British dishes with a modern twist, from seasonal menus of local produce. There are Sunday lunch, afternoon tea and children's menus.
There is no lift, and the upper rooms are on the first and second floors, with small steps in some corridors. The hotel says eight bedrooms are on the ground floor, outside the main building, and two accessible rooms in Silkwood Court have wet-room bathrooms with grab rails. The public rooms are on one level, the entrance has a slight slope but no steps, and there is an accessible toilet opposite reception and one accessible parking bay at the front. Assistance dogs stay free.
Dogs stay in set dog-friendly rooms for £20 a night, with a bed, a bowl and a sausage at breakfast, and are welcome in the bar and garden but not the restaurant. It suits dog owners and anyone walking Silk Wood at the arboretum. It also hosts weddings and conferences.
The details
- Food
- Modern British
- Serving
- Breakfast · Lunch · Afternoon tea · Dinner · Sunday lunch
- Dietary
- Children's menu
- Check-in
- From 3pm
- Check-out
- By 11am
- Features
- Restaurant · Bar · Garden or terrace · Dogs in rooms · Dogs inside · Parking · Wi-Fi · Events and meetings
- Parking
- Guests can use the hotel's small car park free of charge. The group says some of its car parks have a different postcode from the hotel, so use the one in your booking confirmation.
- Without a car
- Kemble station is about seven miles away, with direct trains to London Paddington; Chippenham is 13 miles. A taxi is easiest.
Photos
The garden 
The dining room 
A bedroom 
The lounge
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- Beaufort Polo Club 1.0 km away
- Westonbirt, The National Arboretum 1.1 km away
- Highgrove Gardens 1.7 km away
- The Cat & Custard Pot Inn 2.9 km away
Sights nearby
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St Catherine's Church, Westonbirt
Sight · Church · Tetbury
The former parish church of Westonbirt, south-west of Tetbury, now in the grounds of Westonbirt School beside the Holfords' great house: twelfth to fifteenth century, with Holford monuments including the effigy of Robert Stayner Holford, who began the arboretum.
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Beverston Castle
Sight · Castle or ruin · Tetbury
The ruin of a thirteenth-century castle at Beverston, west of Tetbury, built by Maurice de Gaunt and enlarged by the Berkeleys, twice besieged in 1644 and now part of a private house, its gatehouse, towers and moat seen from the lane and churchyard.
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Cutwell Bridge, Tetbury
Sight · Bridge · Tetbury
A small packhorse and foot bridge of about 1622 on the old road into Tetbury from the south-west: one triangular stone arch about a metre high over a tributary of the Avon, with a long ramp. Grade II, on a public path the Tetbury town walk follows.
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St Mary's Church, Beverston
Sight · Church · Tetbury
Beverston's parish church beside the castle, west of Tetbury: a Norman church on a probably Saxon site, extended by the Berkeleys in 1361, with a pre-Conquest carving of Christ on the tower, a Tudor stone pulpit and a fifteenth-century screen. Grade II*.