The Pig in the South Downs
Madehurst, Sussex
Good Hotel Guide Review
‘The perfect restaurant-with-rooms for lovers of British bubbles’, this latest addition to Robin Hutson’s Pig litter is surrounded by some of Britain’s best wine-making country and offers ‘plenty of fizz with your food’. It is also the first to have its own vineyard; you dine in a conservatory with ‘glorious views over the vines’. Centred on a handsome Georgian mansion which is perhaps ‘smaller and less grand than its siblings’, most of its rooms are scattered across converted stable-yard buildings and wagons as well. ‘The signature shabby-chic style has a floral feel,’ a Guide insider reports; Judy Hutson modelled it on a fictitious 1940s housewife called Mary. Dual-aspect Room 2 has a huge avocado freestanding bath, ‘now looking oddly fashionable’. Best is the Chicken Shack, with lights in old chicken feeders and a bath next to a chaise longue at the end of a long, beamed room. The menus are created with produce from the kitchen garden and orchard, Sussex coast and countryside. ‘The lamb shoulder melts in the mouth.’ ‘At breakfast, I was glad of the beetroot juice to help my liver cope with the excesses of the night before.’ (JK)
Hotel details
Address
Madehurst
Arundel
Sussex
BN18 0NL
England
Telephone
01243 974500
Bedrooms
28. Most in stable-yard buildings, field and garden wagons, 2 on ground floor suitable for disabled, gravel tracks around property.
Open
all year.
Facilities
bar/lounge, restaurant, snug, treatment rooms, gardens, pasture, orchard, vineyard, walled kitchen garden, EV charging.
Background music
in public areas at all times.
Children
all ages welcomed, no charge for extra beds.
Dogs
not allowed.
Credit cards
MC, Visa.
Prices
Room-only doubles from £155. Breakfast £13.50–£18.50, à la carte £42.
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