The Cavendish

Baslow, Derbyshire

‘Comfortable, pretty and very English’, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s smart hotel on the Chatsworth Estate delighted readers this year. More

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Good Hotel Guide Review

Comfortable, pretty and very English’, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire’s smart hotel on the Chatsworth Estate delighted readers this year. They received ‘a warm welcome’ from a member of staff, who carried their bags up, and ‘reappeared within minutes with a small jug of cold milk for our minibar’. Their bedroom had ‘a lovely brass bed, a wonderful view beyond the old apple tree laden with fruit, to the fields’. Even ‘standard’ rooms are tip-top, with comfy armchairs, posh toiletries, Chatsworth biscuits, prints and paintings. Superior rooms have a sofa, perhaps a four-poster. Coach House rooms have hand-picked antiques from the stately home. Bathrooms are ‘modern and efficient’. In the Gallery Restaurant, chef Adam Harper uses local and estate produce in such complex dishes as saddle of hogget, kidney and smoked pancetta suet pie, red cabbage, yeast, roast root vegetables, fondant potato. You can eat more simply and very well in the Garden Room – maybe fish pie, a rib-eye steak. At breakfast there is freshly squeezed orange juice, organic porridge, yogurts from the farm shop, eggs Benedict, poached kippers, the full Chatsworth. ‘We loved it.’ (Catrin Treadwell)

Hotel details

Address

Church Lane
Baslow
Derbyshire
DE45 1SP
England

Telephone

01246 582311

Bedrooms

28. 2 on ground floor, 4 in converted coach house, 2 suitable for disabled.

Open

all year.

Facilities

lounge/bar, 2 restaurants, 2 private dining rooms, function facilities, free Wi-Fi, in-room TV (Freeview), civil wedding licence, ½-acre grounds, public rooms wheelchair accessible.

Background music

background in Garden Room.

Children

all ages welcomed.

Dogs

only guide dogs allowed.

Credit cards

Amex, MC, Visa.

Prices

per room B&B single £120–£430, double £140–£450. Tasting menu £85. Set menus £43–£63, Garden Room à la carte £30. 1-night bookings sometimes refused at weekends, Christmas.

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This hotel accepts discount vouchers which entitle readers to a 10% discount off their normal B&B rate for a single night’s stay. To take advantage of this offer, you must present the voucher at the time of booking.

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Comments about The Cavendish

We so appreciated the deep pile and warmth on a winter's day with snow several inches thick outside. Our rooms were wonderfully cosy with fabulous views over the Chatsworth Estate. The position of the hotel is beyond perfect - on the estate which is enormous and beautiful as well as being in the foothills of some with extraordinary hiking and walking in the hills of the Peak District. - MS - December 2020

Expensive but worth every penny. Our room was fabulously comfortable, tastefully furnished. Outstanding breakfast - open till noon. No hopping up and down to a buffet, everything served at the table; butter in little dishes, real bread toast brought to the table in a rack. Lovely dinner menu; popular locally for special celebrations; we can understand why. What stood out though were the staff, VERY well trained, watchful without being intrusive y. A wonderful place for a few days in the Peak District. - Abigail Kirby-Harris - June 2019

A lovely relaxing stay in splendid surroundings. Staff very friendly and helpful. Very good dinner in Garden Room. Wonderful breakfast. - Jill & Mike Bennett - June 2019

We had a delightful room, and throughout our stay the staff were attentive. There was a delightful personal touch, in that they had learned that our stay was to mark our Golden Wedding, and it was perhaps for that reason we were upgraded from a Standard room, and there was also a card of congratulations, and a small bag of Chatsworth chocolates to add to our celebrations. From the window we had a view over parts of the Chatsworth estate, and one could walk to the house by a footpath from the hotel grounds. The food was beautifully prepared and imaginatively presented, often in a fashionably deconstructed style, but not to the point of pretentiousness. - Robert and Joan Grimley - May 2019

Comfortable, pretty and very English. A perfect base from which to explore Chatsworth. We were give a warm welcome. The rooms could almost be guest rooms in a private house. We had a lovely brass bed in ours, and a wonderful view beyond the old apple tree laden with fruit, to the fields beyond. The baths were modern and efficient; bathrobes were large enough for my very tall husband and the towels were huge. We loved it. - Catrin Treadwell - October 2018

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Last updated: October, 2019. Information from the 2020 Good Hotel Guide

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