Higher Westcott Farm
Style Home-grown gastro glamour
Setting Wild and wuthering Dartmoor
When a graphic designer and a Conran restaurant manager team up, you expect great things. At Higher Westcott Farm, you get them. This 300-year-old Devon Longhouse is perched amid Dartmoor’s Middle Earth woodland and, in addition to the glorious picnic-perfect landscape, it offers hearty country-kitchen cooking, soothing classic-meets-contemporary design, and a homely hearthside feel.
Need to know
- Rooms Three.
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Rates
Double rooms from $142.70 (£91), excluding tax at 20 per cent. Higher Westcott Farm is unable to accept payment by credit card.
Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (£91), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
- More details Rates include full English breakfast. You can rent the whole house for £360–£420 a night.
- Facilities Gardens, library, DVD selection, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, integrated DVD/CD player, free bottled water, Neils’ Yard toiletries.
- Check-out Midday; check-in: 4pm.
- Children The hotel’s well suited to babies, with cots (£10 a night) and extra beds (£20) available. The farm has a stash of infant essentials, including a Bugaboo, changing mat, high chairs and a digital baby monitor. More...
- Eco-friendly Food at Higher Wescott is almost entirely sourced from Dartmoor farms and water comes fresh from their own spring. The hotel recycles everything possible.
- Also Dogs are welcome to stay in the porch, but not the house itself. Two-night minimum stay over weekends.
Food and drink at Higher Westcott Farm
- Hotel restaurant Luckily for gastronomes, owner Jo Gossett used to manage a Conran restaurant in London, and has brought her menu-making skills to bear on Higher Westcott Farm’s kitchen. You’ll need to let the hotel know if you’ll be dining when you book (£30 for three courses), and Jo will send you a menu to pick from in advance. You’d be missing a treat not to dine here: Jo’s sublime home-style cooking features ingredients almost entirely sourced from Dartmoor’s farms. Classic Devon afternoon tea (£5) is served daily.
- Dress code Keep it simple and unpretentious – your comfy-cosy shapeless jumpers won’t raise an eyebrow.
- Top table Dining is based around a communal oak table beside the fire.
- Last orders 9.30pm is the last dinner sitting, but Jo is happy to prepare a late-night supper for late arrivals (by arrangement). Both she and Sam are usually around to man the bar until midnight, after which it works on an honour basis.
- Hotel bar There’s a dusky red leather-panelled 50s-style bar in the living room, which offers a wide selection of whiskies and cognacs, as well as a cellar of biodynamic wines (there’s a corkage fee if you bring your own).
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Higher Westcott Farm Westcott, Moretonhampstead, Devon, TQ13 8SU
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In the know
Our favourite rooms
All of the farm’s rooms are en-suite and look out over the gardens and the woodland beyond, but the antique oak-beamed Loft Room – the largest and our favourite – has the widest aspect and is the only one with its own bath tub, a roll-top Darlington.
Packing tips
Dartmoor was made for ramblers, so be sure you’ve shoes for getting muddy and a suitably outdoorsy wardrobe.
Also
For a proper back-to-basics nature experience, ask Sam and Jo to arrange a food-foraging experience for you, and set out on a Dartmoor expedition in gourmet survivalism.
