Feversham Arms
Yorkshire, United Kingdom [view map]
- Style
- Snug Victorian inn
- Setting
- Moorland market town
This old Yorkshire-stone inn turned boutique hotel idyll is a homely hideaway on the cusp of rambling countryside. With warm pool water all year round and spa treatments on tap, it’s more Mykonos than moorland.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 27, including 16 suites.
- Rates
- £140–£325, including full Yorkshire breakfast, newspaper and VAT. For dinner, bed and breakfast, rates are £200–£395.
- Check-out
- 11am, but this is flexible, subject to availability.
- Facilities
- Spa treatments (the brand new Verbena spa opens 1 October), DVD/CD library. In-room amenities: B&O flatscreen TV with integrated DVD/CD player, open fireplace, under-floor heating, L’Occitaine toiletries.
- Poolside
- The heated outdoor pool is set on a lovely garden terrace, with picnic tables and chairs dotted about. You can order from a poolside-dining menu in summertime.
- Children
- Cots are provided free; folding z-beds for older kids are available for £19 a night. The hotel provides babysitting at £10 an hour and the restaurant has a children’s menu.
- Also
- The Feversham welcomes dogs, but not in the restaurant; and doggy damages must be paid for. There’s a two-night minimum stay and compulsory dinner at weekends.
In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Cosy and contemporary Room 21 is dripping with character, with the original beam running through the ceiling and a huge bathroom with a claw-foot bath. Room 17 is the largest studio double. Rooms 20–25 are more modern in style, the others are classic and countrified. Superstitiously enough, there’s no room 13.
- Packing tips
- No one’s seen dead in these parts without a pair of solid, sturdy wellies for tramping the moors.
- Also
- Because of its proximity to the hunting-lands of North Yorkshire, the Feversham Arms has a secure gun room for stashing your 12-bore.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- The hotel’s restaurant is a maroon-walled, sky-lit eatery serving a Modern British menu that draws heavily from local ingredients – rich Yorkshire game and tasty North Sea fish appear in abundance.
- Dress code
- Squires and sportsmen.
- Top table
- The fact that table 4 is shielded from the rest of the room by a pillar makes it the most romantic dining spot.
- Last orders
- Dinner is served from 7pm to 9.30pm in the restaurant.
- Room service
- Snacks can be delivered to your door all day until 9.30pm.
- Hotel bar
- Feversham is blessed with a brace of bars: one in the front lounge; one in the snug to the rear. Relaxing and quiet, they’re the perfect places to plant yourself and peruse the weekend papers.
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Feversham Arms
1-8 High Street, Helmsley, York
