A masterclass in how to do a pub with rooms: the perfect mix of locals with a Labrador at foot at the bar, and weekenders who’ve escaped for a romantic weekend. Ivy-clad and on the edge of rolling parkland, it has itsown Beckford Phoenix on tap and a menu with pints of prawns and the smartest ploughman’s (Westcombe cheddar and Wiltshire ham). Crash in a bedroom upstairs, one of its lodges nearby on the estate or in the 18th-century Great Arch.




