Cider House Shortlist*
Yelverton, Devon
Good Hotel Guide Review
Birdsong fills the morning at this sophisticated B&B, in the sprawling grounds of the National Trust’s Buckland Abbey. Once the medieval abbey’s brew house, the refreshed, refreshing stone-built home is run with bonhomie by Bertie and Bryony Hancock. There are flowers in the drawing room, plus guidebooks and magazines; country-chic bedrooms with home-baked biscuits have restorative views through mullioned windows. Two cocooning, custom-built shepherd’s huts in a wooded copse are just right for stargazing. Guests breakfast on orchard fruit, honey from garden bees, eggs from the hosts’ rare-breed chickens. Residents receive passes for the abbey, and can explore its gardens outside public visiting times.
Hotel details
Address
Buckland Abbey
Yelverton
Devon
PL20 6EZ
England
Telephone
01822 259062
Bedrooms
4. Plus 2 adult-only self-catering shepherd’s huts.
Open
all year, shepherd’s huts open Mar–Oct.
Facilities
drawing room, in-room TV (Freeview), terrace, garden, 700-acre grounds, parking.
Background music
none.
Children
not under 16.
Dogs
not allowed.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
per room B&B single £125–£175, double £140–£190. 2-night min. stay preferred at weekends.
Last updated:
February 23, 2021