Cotswolds, United Kingdom

The Pig in the Cotswolds

Price per night from$254.75

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If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (GBP195.00), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Swine and dine

Setting

Bucolic Barnsley

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English country minibreaks get an upgrade with the arrival of the Pig in the Cotswolds. This little piggy goes to market in nearby Cirencester, wows with an historic setting, and offers a choice rooms either at the hotel or the Village Pub, a stone's throw away. Dine on provenance-led plates or trad fare. Squeeze in a roam or two of the Gloucestershire countryside, then soothe hike-weary limbs at the soon-to-open wellbeing space in the grounds. This well-reared pig is surely a contender for best in show.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

26, including two suites.

Check–Out

11am. Check-in is from 3pm, but flexible, subject to availability.

More details

Rates are room only at the House. For rooms at the Village Pub, breakfast is included but Fieldhouse access may incur charges. Continental and cooked options are available at the House for £20.95 a head. There’s a two-night minimum stay at weekends.

Also

There’s ramped entry to reception, the restaurant and bar. One ground-floor Comfy Room has a ramp for wheelchair users and a suitable wet-room shower; please book through the Smith24 Travel Team to check availability for this specific room.

At the hotel

Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, coffee- and tea-making kit, minibar, free bottled water, bathrobes and slippers, and Bramley bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Comfy Rooms upwards come with space to lounge; opt for a Big Comfy Luxe or Even Bigger Comfy Luxe for high ceilings, superior views and a bougie bath tub. Boosted privacy and your very own outdoor space make Rosemary’s Hideaway, the Potting Shed or the idyllically set Secret Garden rewarding upgrades. Or get all cosy in the eaves with a room at the Village Pub.

Spa

Soon to open, the Fieldhouse, a space for treatments and wellbeing, is set in the grounds of the main house. Its pampering spec will include four treatment rooms, therapies using Tribe517 spa products, and a steam room, sauna and hydrotherapy circuit that you’ll need to reserve by time slot. Changing rooms, lockers, slippers and robes will all be provided. Please note that if you're staying at the Village Pub, access to the Fieldhouse is free if you book a treatment, but otherwise charged.

Packing tips

You can borrow a pair of wellies, no need to BYO. For winter stays, dig out your most artisanal knits; in summer, floral blouses and Forties-inspired tea dresses hit all the right nostalgic notes.

Also

Choose your room with dining in mind: Village Pub accommodation puts you closest to ales on tap, Sunday roasts and ploughman’s lunches. For locally sourced seasonal plates and garden-spruced tipples, opt for lodgings nearer the House.

Pet‐friendly

One dog, no larger than a labrador, is welcome to stay at the Secret Garden hideaway. Pooches are not allowed in the restaurant or the main house, but they’re welcome at the Village Pub, and a crate, bedding, poo bags and walking maps are provided. See more pet-friendly hotels in Cotswolds.

Children

Welcome. Little Smiths under 13 can stay on an extra bed in some rooms for £20 a night and cots can be added for free as space allows; please request through the Smith24 Travel Team.

Sustainability efforts

The Pig hotels group is a B Corp company, audited regularly for its social and environmental responsibility. Founder Robin and property director Paul take a mindful approach to restoring historic buildings and conserving their history and character — and this is true of their Cotswolds hotel and Village Pub too. Interiors use reclaimed, vintage, upcycled and reupholstered furniture where possible. Their sustainability focus is both local and global: nearer home, they partner with Cotswolds suppliers and employees wherever possible; the kitchen garden and a regional supply chain keep food miles in check, and everything from the ales on tap to the spirits used in their cocktails is curated for its pride in place. One of their charity partners, Belu, provides the refillable glass water bottles. Bramley bath products are all-natural, biodegradable and come in refillable, full-size bottles. And some of the company profits support international charity partner, Action Against Hunger.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

You’ll revel at securing a table in any of the corner nooks at the pub, or overlooking the gardens in the hotel restaurant.

Dress Code

Country casual right down to your mud-flecked wax jacket is fine at the pub. For dinner at the restaurant, up the sense of occasion with garb that’s a little smarter.

Hotel restaurant

Provenance stars at the restaurant, where a 25 Mile Menu reads like a road map of English ingredients, from hotel-garden-sourced herbs and salads, to Tamworth pork and whole-roasted Cotswolds partridge. Head chef Will and team partner with regional butchers, bakeries and other local suppliers to spotlight the West Country’s seasonal larder. Dishes arrive on dresser-worthy floral crockery in a wood-panelled dining room, where picture windows overlooking the gardens and a lofty ceiling create a light-filled, airy space. The pub is more about crackling log fires, low, beamed ceilings and aged benches shoehorned into cosy nooks. The cuisine here takes a traditional turn, too: Sunday roasts are the obvious leading light, but gammon in parsley sauce or caper-butter drizzled whole plaice are welcome fuss-free footnotes to fresh-air-filled days. Expect a deftly curated choice of English wines, spirits and craft ales and ciders at both. 

Hotel bar

Cotswolds-distilled vodka and gin, Woodchester Valley wines, Stroud Brewery ales and Severn-sourced perry keep the pride in place flowing, whether that’s on tap at the Village Pub or measured into a cocktail sprigged with herbs from the kitchen garden before dinner at the hotel bar (open from noon until 11pm). Infused with local spirit, the hotel bar's cocktail list includes a Cotswolds White Negroni (mixed with white vermouth) and a Barnsley Spritz (pimped with tangy rhubarb notes). 

Last orders

At the restaurant, breakfast is served from 7am until 10am (from 7.30am at the pub). Lunch hours for both are noon till 2.30pm, and dinner runs from 6pm until 9.30pm (but not on Sundays at the pub). At the pub, weekend lunch runs from noon until 6pm.

Location

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Address
The Pig in the Cotswolds
Barnsley
Cirencester
GL7 5EE
United Kingdom

The Pig in the Cotswolds is in the Gloucestershire village of Barnsley, a 10-minute drive from Cirencester.

Planes

Bristol and London Heathrow are the nearest airports — each around an hour and a half from the hotel.

Trains

The nearest train station is in Kemble, a 20-minute drive from the hotel. Direct trains go from here to London Paddington in around 70 minutes.

Automobiles

Driving distance from London is 80 miles. You’ll find it useful to have your own set of wheels if you’re here for more than a weekend and want to explore the wider Cotswolds, and there’s free parking at the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Cirencester, which has a beautiful abbey, lively weekend markets and a feast of boutiques and pubs, is only four miles away — that’s basically your weekend sorted. But tear yourself away from the cream teas and you can unearth the town’s Roman past at the Corinium Museum, or visit Chedworth Roman Villa to marvel at ancient foundations and a restored mosaic or two. Walks are in abundance in the Cotswolds, naturally, with a choice of circular tramps from Barnsley, field-flanked yomps to Bibury, or arcadian strolls in the Coln Valley (also home to a grid-worthy clutch of former Weavers Cottages called Arlington Row). 

Local restaurants

You’re unlikely to need to stray from the Village Pub and the hotel’s restaurant, but there are options… A garlanded hearth, fairylights and wooden tables with church chairs create a magical setting for casual plates — salad bowls, sandwiches, burgers — at the Jolly Nice Farm Shop, a transformed petrol station (and yes, it has a farm shop, too). In Cirencester, Sam & Jak’s is a snazzily tiled, owner-run wine bar and restaurant serving accomplished mod-European dishes. A trad pub that’s elevated by good food and friendly, excellent service is the Masons Arms in Meysey Hampton, just outside Cirencester. 

Reviews

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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 country house hotel in Gloucestershire and unpacked their small-batch honey and picnic blankets, a full account of their bucolic break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside the Pig in the Cotswolds…

The Pig in the Cotswolds comes with an overhaul of what was once Barnsley House and the Village Pub — spun with finesse into the kind of gastronomy-led rural retreat that’s become the Pig hotel group’s signature style. 

Stay in the honey-hued Grade II-listed mansion, set in the original Rosemary Verey-designed gardens. Provenance rules at the restaurant here: much of its 25 Mile Menu is sourced from the kitchen garden. And there’s a spa, plus Simon Verity sculptures, a listed Gothic summerhouse and a Palladian temple to unearth, too. 

Or you can plump for the authentic tavern feel of the Village Pub — a beam-ceilinged inn plating up traditional English fare. Just six rooms are attached, each kitted out with trademark attention to detail (fresh milk in the fridge, light-blocking shutters and a Cotswoldian curation of snacks) and homey, antique furnishings. 

Wherever you choose to rest, circular walks from the doorstep, along the River Coln or to Bibury, and being close to the majestic abbey, thriving shops and market of Cirencester seal the bucolic appeal of this polished Pig.

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