B&B · Winchcombe
Cleeve Hill Hotel
A 12-room bed and breakfast hotel on Cleeve Hill, about three miles south-west of Winchcombe, with views over the Severn Vale and a door onto Cleeve Common and the Cotswold Way.
Walker-friendly · Dog-friendly
For walkers on the Cotswold Way, a night next to Cleeve Common, with a boot room and packed lunches. There is no dinner, so plan to eat at the Rising Sun nearby or in Cheltenham.
- Good: Boot room with a heated airer and steps straight onto Cleeve Common
- Good: Dogs stay free in certain double rooms
- Good: Breakfast included; packed lunches to order
- Worth knowing: No evening meals
- Worth knowing: No shop on the hill: the nearest are in Woodmancote and Bishop's Cleeve
- Worth knowing: One small parking space per room
About
Cleeve Hill Hotel is on the B4632 at Cleeve Hill, about three miles south-west of Winchcombe. It calls itself the highest hotel in the Cotswolds. Mr Petty built it in the early 1900s beside his Geisha Tea Rooms, when trams brought visitors up from Cheltenham, and it has been a bed and breakfast since 1921. Lindsey Holland has owned it since December 2017 and is refurbishing it in stages.
There are 12 rooms: doubles with king-size beds, twins and, on the top two floors, suites with emperor beds and seating. A twin suite and a double interconnect for families, booked by phone or email rather than online. Rooms look across the Severn Vale to the Malverns and the Black Mountains, or over the common; ask whether yours has a bath or a shower. Guests share a lounge with an honesty bar of local beer and cider, books, maps and games. Check-in is from 3.30pm and check-out by 11am, by the hotel's own terms, and luggage can be delivered ahead.
Breakfast is included, full English or a continental buffet, with packed lunches to order; there are no evening meals, so guests eat at the Rising Sun nearby or in Cheltenham. A door from the boot room leads up steps onto Cleeve Common, the high ground of the Cotswold Way, and our walk over Cleeve Common and Cleeve Cloud starts close by. Dogs stay free in certain double rooms.
Opening hours and season
Breakfast only (full English or continental buffet); packed lunches to order. No evening meals.
The details
- Serving
- Breakfast
- Rooms
- 12
- Features
- Views · Family rooms · Dogs in rooms · Parking · Wi-Fi
- History
- Built in the early 1900s; a bed and breakfast since 1921
- Parking
- One parking space per room; the spaces are small.
Photos
A twin room with a view 
Breakfast 
The lounge 
Sunset from the hotel
Location
Nearby walks, places and things to do
- The Rising Sun Hotel 0.2 km away
- Prescott Speed Hill Climb 2.8 km away
- Cheltenham Racecourse 3.7 km away
- Belas Knap Long Barrow 4.0 km away
Sights nearby
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Cleeve Common
Sight · Common or park · The Cotswold Edge
Gloucestershire’s largest common: more than 400 hectares of open limestone grassland on the Cotswold Edge above Cheltenham, with the highest point of the Cotswolds at 330m, an Iron Age hillfort, a Bronze Age cross dyke and views to the Malverns and the Black Mountains.
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Cleeve Hill camp
Sight · Hill fort or barrow · The Cotswold Edge
Cleeve Hill camp is a small Iron Age hillfort of about 500 BC on the cliff top at Cleeve Cloud, above Cheltenham, with two rings of rampart up to 2.5m high and the scarp as its western wall. Cut by quarries and a golf course, it is a scheduled monument on Cleeve Common.
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River Isbourne
Sight · River · Winchcombe
The River Isbourne rises at a spring on Cleeve Hill above Winchcombe and runs north past Postlip, Winchcombe, Toddington and Sedgeberrow to join the Avon at Evesham. A waymarked path of some 14 miles, the Isbourne Way, follows it.
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St James' Chapel, Postlip
Sight · Church · Winchcombe
St James' Chapel is a small Norman chapel of about 1140 beside Postlip Hall below Cleeve Common, with a chevron-carved doorway, used as a farm building for centuries and restored for Catholic worship in 1891. Grade I; seen from the Cotswold Way.