Good Hotel Guide Review
Guests feel ‘very cared for’ at Jane and Angus Fordyce’s Georgian country house, which stands in mature grounds close to the empty beaches of the Solway coast. ‘It is a genuine oasis of tranquillity.’ Public rooms are filled with antiques, portraits, clocks, ornaments … all the trappings of an elegant but lived-in private home. ‘We had a lovely stay in this fabulous hotel,’ wrote readers who had probably the grandest room, Criffel. Light-filled Oswald room has toile de Jouy wallpaper and a separate sitting room. Both of these rooms have a sofa that converts to a bed for a child. All rooms are supplied with locally made biscuits and good china for tea and coffee. Angus’s ‘very tasty’, nightly, no-choice menu (let them know if you have dietary requirements) might include hand-dived scallops, venison, wild Solway sea bass or a terrific steak. At breakfast there are local sausages and black pudding, locally smoked fish, organic eggs from Mrs McMyn’s Lohmann browns – or from happy hens at the bottom of the garden. (David Sowden, CA)
Hotel details
Address
Kirkbean
Dumfries
Dumfries and Galloway
DG2 8AA
Scotland
Telephone
01387 880234
Bedrooms
6. 1 on ground floor.
Open
Mar–Nov, exclusive use by groups at New Year.
Facilities
2 sitting rooms, dining room, wine cellar, meeting facilities, in-room TV (Freeview), 10-acre grounds.
Background music
light classical all day in 1 sitting room, dining room.
Children
all ages welcomed, free cots, sofa beds in some rooms.
Dogs
allowed by arrangement, not in public rooms or unattended in bedrooms.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
D,B&B doubles from £290, singles from £232, family from £425. Dinner £35 for non-residents. 1-night bookings may be refused Easter, bank holidays.
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