In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- All three double rooms have state-of-the-art bathroom fittings, kingsize beds and neutral, contemporary decor. They're simple, uncluttered, and comfortable (so important after a large, delicious meal).
- Packing tips
- Leave whites at home: you’re bound to miss your mouth a few times in your haste to get delicious food into it. Bring your swimwear if you're planning to venture into Bath to visit the Thermae Spa for treatments.
- Also
- In-room massages and beauty treatments can be arranged on request.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A free bottle of champagne
The Wheatsheaf
Northeast Somerset, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Gastro-hub with rooms
- Setting
- Somerset’s farmland fields
At the Wheatsheaf, a delightful country gastropub and boutique inn, the really big draw is the phenomenal cooking; you'll lurch from meal to glorious meal in a delirium of pastoral astonishment. When you're not eating (these times will be few, so bring an appetite), Bath and Somerset are on your doorstep, providing plenty of pastimes both genteel (Regency architecture, Roman Baths) and adventurous (hiking, hot-air ballooning).
Need to know
- Rooms
- Three.
- Rates
- £95–£120, including full English breakfast.
- Check-out
- 11am, but flexible. Earliest check-in, midday.
- Facilities
- Terrace, gardens, boules pitch, outdoor table tennis. In rooms, flatscreen TV, tea/coffee, White Company toiletries.
- Hotel closed
- The Wheatsheaf is closed on Christmas Day, Boxing Day, and for the first two weeks in January.
- Also
- Dogs welcome. Horse riding can be arranged nearby, as can a day at the races (in the season).
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Everything that emanates from chef Lee Evans’ kitchen at the Wheatsheaf is a pure, unbridled joy. His eclectic menu marries British flavours with French élan. Just reading it will make you drool: dishes include seared scallops with boudin noir.
- Dress code
- Jeans and jumpers all round: comfy clothes are de rigueur – you don't want any tight waistbands or belts hindering your maximum capacity.
- Top table
- Outside, at a scrubbed wooden table on the terrace (which has stunning, soothing rural views); indoors, in the brighter room to the right.
- Last orders
- 11pm. At lunchtime (noon–2.30pm), the à la carte menu is joined by a Garden Menu of grown-up gastropub offerings, including a Ploughman’s to die for, with plank-thick hunks of ham and wedges of tangy cheese, and fresh, home-made breads and rolls.
- Room service
- None, but drinks are still available to residents after the barman has rung last orders.
- Hotel bar
- This stylishly above-par pub has cider, local real ales and beers, plus a substantial cellar of European wines.
Other facilities
- Children
- Embraced; cots and extra beds available, and nannies can be drafted in.
- Weddings
- This hotel is suitable for weddings click here for more info.
Smith card offer
A free bottle of champagne
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The Wheatsheaf
Combe Hay
Bath
Avon