A stone house on Market Place, run by eleven people
The Ferrow House was a corn merchant's house, then a bank, then empty for eleven years. We took the boards off in 2015 and opened with six rooms the following spring. There are twelve now, a kitchen that cooks five nights a week, and a walled garden that took three summers to bring back. Most of the people who work here grew up within ten miles of the front door.
We bought the house at auction because nobody else wanted a listed building with a hole in the roof. The plan was six rooms and a coffee shop. Ten years on it is twelve rooms, a kitchen, a garden that feeds the kitchen, and a town that treats the bar as its own. The roof took most of the first year.
What a night here includes
The rate on the room is the rate you pay. Nothing is added at checkout except what you ate and drank.
Cooked to order, bread from the baker two doors along, eggs from a farm four miles out.
Eleven spaces behind the house, free, plus a charging point. You get a front-door key, so there is no curfew.
A walled garden with somewhere to sit out of the wind, and a fire lit in the lounge from October.
And a number on the back of your key for the hours after that. Dogs are welcome in four of the twelve rooms.
The house, in pictures
Nothing here is styled for the photograph. The lounge fire is lit most afternoons between October and March, the garden is cut back hard every February, and the bath in Cooper really is in the bedroom. If you want to see a specific room before you book, ring us and we will walk you round it on the phone.
