Need to know

Rooms

Four.

Rates

£90–£130, including full English breakfast. You can rent the whole house for £460 a night.

Check-out

Midday; check-in: 4pm.

Facilities

Gardens, library, DVD selection, free WiFi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, integrated DVD/CD player, free bottled water, Neils’ Yard toiletries.

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.

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.

In the know

Our favourite rooms

All of the farm’s rooms are en-suite, except the smallest, Bedroom 3, which has a private bathroom down the hall. All four of the rooms 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.

Food & drink

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 – shapeless jumpers wouldn’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).

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Higher Westcott Farm

Westcott, Moretonhampstead