Conference facilities hotel in Hereford

The hotel is a creative and inspiring setting for conferences and meetings consisting of a square of Medieval and Elizabethan timber frame buildings around a large courtyard with a pond in the centre. This, surrounded by its 5 acres of homestead, makes a unique venue for any company or individuals requiring space and total privacy.

First built in 1280 when Edward I took Kington away from the Welsh, the building has survived for more than 700 years as a farm on the border of Herefordshire and Wales.

Now, after many years of devoted work by the owners, repairing and rebuilding it emerges as one of the most delightful small hotels that you could find anywhere.

There are three periods to the main house: the great medieval Cruck hall with stone flag floors, a snug corner with a roaring log fire, and an Elizabethan wing with vast oak beams. The house looks out on a farm pond humming and blooming with life. In Spring you discover the wild primroses and anemones in the hedgerows, in Summer watch the kingfishers at the rivers edge. In Autumn, marvel at the spectacular colours and in the Winter after a crisp frosty walk, return to a steaming aromatic bath and rollicking log fire.The Byre: The Byre, which forms one side of the court, is completely self contained. It is an ideal space for workshops including yoga, woodturning, basket making and organic gardening
Seats: 50 (theatre style), 20 (boardroom style)
Width: 19 ½ft | Length: 50ft | Height: 9 ½ft to beam, 19ft to ceiling

The Inglenook A weir little room, with a massive wooden lintel inscribed with a sign to stop witches coming down the chimney. A great place for small groups to relax on a dark night after a hard days work.
Seats: 10 + 10 (adjancent lounge)
Width: 16 ½ ft | Length: 24 ft | Height: 8ft to beam, 8 ½ ft to ceiling

The Cruck Hall: A medieval cruck hall with a minstrel gallery is suitable for seminars, lectures, meetings and musical events. Smaller meetings usually take place in the Elizabethan Room or the Byre and the Cruck is used as a dining room.
Seats: 60 (theatre style), 24 (boardroom style), 20 (U-shaped)
Width: 27ft | Length: 29 ½ft | Height: 15ft to beam, 25ft to ceiling

The Elizabethan Room: This is the youngest part of the house and was built around 1590. It is perfect for meetings and small conferences and can also be used for private dinner parties.
Seats: 30 (theatre style), 15 (boardroom style), 12 (U-shaped)
Width: 22 ½ft | Length: 22ft | Height: 8ft to beam, 8 ½ft to ceiling

The hotel has 15 bedrooms each named after birds found nearby. The bedrooms all have their own private bathroom and each room its own character & decoration. Two rooms have four poster beds and some rooms are for families. The upstairs bedrooms have spectacular views over Bradnor Hill & Hergest Ridge and the downstairs bedrooms have shuttered French doors leading out into a garden. All our rooms are non-smoking.

It is twenty five years since we first opened our doors as a restaurant. Over the years owner & chef Daphne Lambert, has evolved her own style of cooking.

She uses only fresh organically grown ingredients of the highest quality and prepares them in a way that does not mask the natural flavours or strip the food of its nutritional value. Garden fresh produce, tender leaves of young spinach, plump corn, crisp lettuce, small carrots, fragrant thyme, lemony sorrel, pungent rosemary, onions, beans and potatoes grow a few paces from the kitchen door and the chef harvests them the moment they are right.

The food is complemented by a list of rare and unusual wines from small dedicated organic growers. Our cellar has been collected by Martin over the years from the top wine merchants, auctions and visits to France.The hotel is an excellent base from which to enjoy the untamed countryside of the borderlands. You can walk over the wild hills of Wales or along the Offa's Dyke Path, or explore the peaceful valleys at the foot of the Black Mountains.

We are within easy reach of five golf courses, the nearest being Kington which is in fact the highest golf course in England, where the views are so spectacular your standard round of golf hardly matters. Other activities include riding, hang gliding, rally driving & go-carting, and we are very close to Hay-on-Wye, internationally famed for second hand books. There are many castles, stately homes and galleries to visit and numerous beautiful gardens including the famous Hergest Croft Gardens.


By car: M5 junction 6 (37 miles). We are on the Welsh Border off the A44 Leominster to Kington road, 1 mile east of Kington on the right hand side.
By air: Birmingham airport (60 miles), Bristol airport(69 miles), Shobdon airport (private flights, 4 miles), on site helicopter landing site.
By train: Leominster station (15 miles), Hereford station (20 miles).