Bridport, United Kingdom

Outbuildings

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Style

Barn romantic

Setting

Bridport's borders

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Set in Dorset farmland, adults-only Outbuildings brings together a select handful of high-spec barns, byres and huts, centred around an inviting café-bar and terrace. Bespoke experiences here are as detail-driven as the country-chic interiors in your standalone retreat for two. And a converted-pig-truck cinema in the hay barn and a tree-curtained barrel hot tub hint at the romance-kindling indulgences to come…

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Nine, including two suites.

Check–Out

11am; check-in, 4pm. You’re welcome to use the communal areas if you arrive early or need to linger after check-out.

More details

Outbuildings offers rates that are room only, as well as rates that include breakfast at the Cart Shed.

Also

Set on a farm, Outbuildings is unfortunately not wheelchair-accessible, but if you have some ambulant mobility, you may find that the step-free Cider and Pressing rooms meet your needs.

At the hotel

Barn cinema, outdoor hot tub, 10 acres of gardens and fields, and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: smart TV, steamer, coffee- and tea-making kit, free filtered water, hairdryer, bathrobes and bespoke natural bath products.

Our favourite rooms

The Coop is a top-tier romantic hideout — a duplex cabin with a bed in the eaves and a copper bath tub on its covered terrace. We love the Sty’s private courtyard garden, which comes with a fire pit. The Pen is your cosy shepherd’s hut option, and check out the Byre, which has rolling-to-the-horizon rural vistas from both your bed and the bath tub set on the terrace. If you’re travelling with friends, you’ll want to book the Granary, which can sleep up to six and has a tin bath that serves as an indoor hot tub.

Spa

There’s no spa at Outbuildings, but — with notice and subject to availability — staff can arrange for a local therapist to deliver in-room massage treatments.

Packing tips

During warmer months, when the Dorset coastline is at its most inviting, a beach basket with towels is provided in your room.

Also

A warm welcome at Outbuildings is guaranteed with homemade cake in your room on arrival.

Pet‐friendly

Dogs are welcome in all rooms except the Pen and the Granary. A flat £25 cleaning fee applies for each pet, and you’ll need to keep Fido off the furnishings and on a leash in the grounds and in fields where there are livestock. See more pet-friendly hotels in Bridport.

Children

Outbuildings is an adults-only stay that’s not suitable for little Smiths, but if you’re travelling with babes-in-arms (children under two), the Pressing Room, the Cider Room and the Granary will each take a baby cot, free on request.

Sustainability efforts

Outbuildings uses some solar power with plans to extend its usage, and avoids single-use plastic in day-to-day operations. But the hotel’s Earth-kind trump card is its community links. Its vegan, natural bath products are a collab with Bridport-based Oleo; some of the hotel’s textiles were designed in-house; a kitchen garden supplies just-picked herbs and veg to the Cart Shed, where the menus are led by the seasons; and staff and suppliers are local where possible.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

On the terrace in summer or tucked either side of the chimney in winter.

Dress Code

Although Outbuildings staff (and resident dogs) have branded attire, there’s no formality around what you wear on the farm — and the same applies to the Cart Shed.

Hotel restaurant

At the heart of the hotel, the Cart Shed is Outbuildings’ all-day café-bar and is a year-round pleaser with a fire-warmed brick bar in cooler months, and terrace tables when the mercury rises. Head chef Jussy Marshall (ex Salon, Brixton) and team spotlight Dorset’s seasonal larder with their casual ‘Just Down The Road’ menu, which takes a sharing approach to dining, with plates billed as small and large: autumnal dishes, for example, include beetroot and ewe’s cheese salad, honey-drizzled roast squash, and red lentil dhal. For lunch, there’s a smaller selection of comfort-food classics including burgers and skewers. Breakfast nails the low-food-mile brief with locally reared bacon, farm-sourced eggs and Dorset-foraged mushrooms. 

Hotel bar

At the Cart Shed, in addition to a selection of wines and beers, staff will happily shake you a cocktail. You can also ‘text for a tipple’ for drinks delivered to wherever you are on the farm — in your cabin, the hot tub, orchard or cinema. 

Last orders

The Cart Shed is open from 9am until 10pm. Breakfast is served, 9am until 11am; lunch runs from noon until 4pm; for dinner, it’s 5pm until 8pm (Sunday to Thursday), and until 9pm (Friday to Saturday).

Room service

You can request a day ahead for a breakfast hamper delivery. And a dedicated selection of food and drink can be ordered to your room between noon and 9pm daily.

Location

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Address
Outbuildings
Broad Road Farm
Bridport
DT6 3TS
United Kingdom

Luxury farm stay Outbuildings is just outside Bridport in West Dorset countryside — only a short hop from the Jurassic Coast.

Planes

Exeter and Bournemouth are the nearest regional airports, each around an hour away by road. For international arrivals, London Heathrow is a two-and-a-half-hour drive from the hotel; for London Gatwick, it’s nearer three hours.

Trains

Crewkerne, Maiden Newton and Dorchester (South or West) train stations are all within a 30-minute drive of the hotel, and between them are served by routes from Southampton, London, Bristol, Exeter and Salisbury. The hotel can arrange taxi transfers for around £30 to £40 one way.

Automobiles

Bringing your own set of wheels will give you the freedom to explore this rural corner of Dorset, and there’s a free carpark on-site. But if you’re only here for a weekend, taxis should suffice and staff can help you arrange transport.

Worth getting out of bed for

The bucolic beauty of Dorset on your doorstep can wait: Outbuildings has some indulgent treats for two on offer within the grounds. Book a screening for two at the Hay Barn Cinema and settle into its converted pig truck, made cosy with cushions and blankets, where you can graze on nibbles and pizza with your movie of choice. In the Orchard, a lamp-lit byre is available for exclusive use — by day with a chef-prepped picnic, and in the evenings with a barbecue for two. With your modesty protected by surrounding trees, a hot tub in the woods comes with quaffable bubbles as well as aquatic ones. And if an in-room massage floats your boat, ask staff about treatments (booking well ahead is advisable). 

Away from the farm, Bridport is a café-studded town with a twice-weekly morning market on Wednesdays and Saturdays. West Bay (of Broadchurch fame) has a chip-hut-dotted harbour and shingle beach, or head to Burton Bradstock — home to the gastronomic Hive Café. Lyme Regis is only 20 minutes away for a walk along the Cobb, scenic mini golf and ice cream on the prom.

Local restaurants

Venture through winding country lanes to The Parlour — a family-run restaurant on Bredy Farm — and your reward is a Sunday roast where the trimmings are as good as the cuts. A diminutive restaurant that’s been around for some time, Dorshi is down a tiny alley in Bridport, and once you’ve sipped their Asian-skewed cocktails, tasted their popcorn cauliflower and curried-lamb dumplings, you’ll understand its enduring appeal. Until 11am, Rise serves the kind of avo-topped breakfasts that draw bleary-eyed young things, but by noon its versatile all-day menu means you can feast on oysters, burgers, salads or Korean fried chicken; plus it’s right by the harbour in West Bay, so the scenery’s pretty appetising, too.

Local cafés

Soulshine in Bridport is popular for its precise brews and hearty brunches (try the pancake stack), but also opens for modern British dining in the evenings, Wednesday to Saturday; plus there are outdoor tables in the courtyard. Goose & Badger, beside the Electric Cinema, is Soulshine’s little sister — a café by day and from Thursday to Saturday, a bar by night serving cocktails, wine and beer.

Local bars

In summer months, a clifftop pub garden is a breathtaking setting for sunset pints of cider in Seatown at the Anchor Inn (which also serves food; booking advisable). In Bridport, beer lovers can choose between craft ale and wine house, The Pursuit of Hoppyness, and freehouse The Woodman pub on South Street.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this West Dorset farmstay and unpacked their Moore’s Biscuits and Blue Vinny cheese, a full account of their bucolic break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Outbuildings near Bridport…

Luxury farm stay Outbuildings has a layered past. What was once a working farm, just outside Bridport, diversified into holiday rentals with the conversion of two of its original outbuildings (hence the name). Hotel owner Ed, who grew up here, and his partner Dominic saw its potential and set about transforming it into today’s rural retreat. 

The countryside is celebrated here with a bounty of bespoke experiences. Enjoy a movie screening for two, a hot tub in the woods or a picnic in the orchard. The hotel’s pin-neat decor embraces rusticity, too — bringing cabin couture to each standalone room. 

Locality is woven into everything from the bespoke copper bath tubs, made in Dorchester, to the natural, vegan bath products from a Bridport supplier. The kitchen garden earns its keep, providing herbs and veggies for the Cart Shed’s menus. And some of the patterns on fabrics were hand-drawn by one of the staff before being turned into drapes. 

The set-up here may be a super-charged bed and breakfast, but the attention to detail is nothing but five-star.

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