Rectory Hotel
Style Period-detail family retreat
Setting Walled gardens in Wiltshire
A 12-room former rectory, this family-friendly Cotswolds charmer is blessed with walled gardens, a heated outdoor pool and a talented chef. With its open log fires, canoodle-perfect armchairs and all that crisp Egyptian linen waiting for you in the bedrooms upstairs, Rectory Hotel is the ideal place to kickstart or rekindle a romance – with or without the kids in tow.
Need to know
- Rooms 12.
- Rates Double rooms from $163.86 (£104), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
- More details Rates include breakfast. There's a two-night minimum stay over bank holiday weekends or public holidays.
- Facilities Heated outdoor pool; gardens with croquet lawn; library of books, CDs and DVDs; free WiFi; loaner iPod and digital camera; wellies and walking maps. In rooms, flatscreen TV, CD/DVD player, iPod dock, Bamford toiletries.
- Poolside There's a heated outdoor pool in the hotel's gardens.
- Check-out 11am (can be extended to midday in some cases). Check-in, 3pm, but flexible subject to availability.
- Children As befits the former home of a rector who had 14 children, the hotel is very family‑friendly. Cots and baby monitors are available; an extra bed costs £15 a night, including breakfast. Organic children’s menus. Babysitting is £8 an hour. More...
- Also Canine guests welcome. For Christmas, the Rectory is available in its entirety for £8,600, including dinner and Christmas lunch. New Year's Eve costs £4,800, including dinner and a band.
Food and drink at Rectory Hotel
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Hotel restaurant
You can’t fail to enjoy Peter Fairclough’s Modern British menu of fresh, seasonal produce – mostly organic – especially in summer, when it’s served outside in the Victorian gardens. The restaurant comprises two spaces: a handsomely wood-panelled dining room and a bright, airy conservatory. For pub-style fare, skip to the Potting Shed.
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Dress code
Battered casuals won’t do your genteel surroundings any justice, but things are very low-key here. -
Top table
The light and the garden views are wonderful, so choose a table by the windows. -
Last orders
From Sundays to Thursdays, last orders in the restaurant is 9pm; Fridays and Saturdays, 9.30pm. -
Room service
A full menu is available during restaurant hours, but the kitchen can usually magic up a sandwich, salad or omelette if you’re peckish at peculiar times. -
Hotel bar
Smart armchairs, comfy sofas and Perspex tables strike just the right balance between homely and stylish. If G&Ts aren’t your thing, there’s an excellent list of wines and whiskies; the bar closes when the last guest has gone to bed.
Also worth knowing
- Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...
Rectory Hotel Crudwell, Malmesbury, Cotswolds, SN16 9EP
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One pre-dinner cocktail each when dining at the hotel restaurant
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In the know
Our favourite rooms
Every room has a view over the gardens; they are similarly decorated in pale, soothing colours, but all have unique details, such as a fireplace or wooden beams. Of the Deluxe rooms, we like Leckhampton for its huge bed and roll-top bath; Sudeley has a four-poster. Standard rooms Nympsfield and Cam Peak can be combined for families.
Packing tips
Your swimsuit in the summer, if you fancy a dip in the outdoor pool.
Also
Book a massage, either at the hotel or at a nearby spa. Try a game of pétanque on the lawn.
From the Guestbook…
Olde worlde in so many ways and very peaceful – a home as much as a hotel. Their not having rushed to modernise everything that doesn't move adds to the atmosphere. I could a...
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