The Wold Cottage
Wold Newton, Yorkshire
Good Hotel Guide Review
This ‘cottage’ is a handsome Georgian manor house with elegant rooms and peaceful views over landscaped gardens and surrounding farmland. While certainly gracious, with high-ceilinged rooms, large sash windows and high-quality paintings and furnishings, it has a warm and welcoming air. Katrina and Derek Gray emphasise it’s their home and greet guests with tea in the fire-warmed sitting room. Bedrooms, divided between the main house and a converted barn, range from traditional, with antiques and silky drapes – one has a four-poster – to more contemporary, where neutral colours are jazzed up with a tartan-covered armchair or a bold throw. All but one are spacious, with armchairs and sofas, and most have a bath and shower; all have robes and fresh milk. Breakfast in the large dining room, with its Georgian-red walls and garden views, is a handsome affair. Guests sit at individual tables, there is no buffet, all food is ordered, prepared in the kitchen and served to guests. The menu is a feast of local produce including Yorkshire ham and cheese, kippers, Filey Bay crab and boiled egg, as well as home-made bread and preserves. It’s enough to set you up for a day exploring the coast and Wolds.
Hotel details
Address
Wold Newton
Driffield
Yorkshire
YO25 3HL
England
Telephone
01262 470696
Bedrooms
6. 2 in converted barn, 1 on ground floor, 1 has option of self-catering apartment. 3 self-catering cottages.
Open
closed Dec and Jan.
Facilities
lounge, dining room, in-room TV (Freeview), 3-acre gardens (croquet) in 240-acre grounds (farmland, woodland), public rooms wheelchair accessible.
Background music
at breakfast in dining room.
Children
all ages welcomed, only in family room.
Dogs
not allowed.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £110, singles from £80, family room £145. 2-course suppers occasionally offered, £24. Min. 2-night bookings.
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