The Pig near Bath

Pensford, Somerset

The setting is pure hog heaven at Robin Hutson's third Pig hotel, surrounded by a deer park in a fold in the Mendips. More

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The setting is pure hog heaven at Robin Hutson’s third Pig hotel, surrounded by a deer park in a fold in the Mendips. The part-Georgian building comes in the group’s signature shabby-chic style. ‘The chic outweighs the shabby, though I’d welcome a splash of colour,’ writes a reader, whose room was ‘huge, with two proper armchairs and a table at the end of the bed’ and had an ‘excellent bathroom’. The smallest bedrooms have a walk-in monsoon shower; the largest have a four-poster, freestanding bath and walk-in shower. The Hide, in the kitchen garden, has a four-poster bed and log-burner. In the restaurant and conservatory, and under canvas, 25-mile menus are built around produce from the huge kitchen garden, with dishes such as thyme-roasted romanesco, mountain mint and pickled raisin or chalk-stream trout, rainbow chard and Fowey mussels. Our reader found the portions a tad large, but loved the home-grown vegetables and ‘excellent triple-cooked chips’. Flatbreads are dispensed from a wood-fired oven. Breakfast brings ‘big jugs of freshly squeezed juices, huge loaves of fresh bread, croissants, pastries’, the works.

Hotel details

Address

Hunstrete House
Pensford
Somerset
BS39 4NS
England

Telephone

01761 490490

Bedrooms

29. 5 in gardens, some on ground floor, 1 with wheelchair access and wet room.

Open

all year.

Facilities

2 lounges, bar, restaurant, snug, private dining room, in-room TV (Freeview), civil wedding licence, treatment room, kitchen garden, 
wild flower meadow, deer park, 
EV charging, ground floor/garden areas wheelchair accessible.

Background music

all day in public areas.

Children

all ages welcomed, no charge for extra beds.

Dogs

only guide dogs.

Credit cards

Amex, MC, Visa.

Prices

room-only doubles from £195. Breakfast £13.50–£18.50, à la carte £42. 1-night bookings refused at weekends, Christmas/New Year.

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Comments about The Pig near Bath

Our bedroom was huge, more chic than shabby; excellent bathroom as usual. At the dinner we enjoyed the fish though portions were enormous. The home-grown vegetables were delicious. Breakfast is still outstanding. The public rooms have plenty of seating, always a pleasant buzz, excellent service. The staff remain the best element of the Pig group. A telling factor is the demographic of the guests; toddlers to golden oldies during our visit. - Desmond and Jenny Balmer - February 2020
How does The Pig manage to attract so many helpful, efficient and industrious staff? And they seemed to be enjoying their work. - Andrew Butterworth - January 2018
A beautiful building and fabulous kitchen garden. Large, comfortable bedrooms - not sure about the bath being in the bedroom, but I suppose this is how it has to be nowadays - but there was marmalade at breakfast ! Shabby chic style - which means quite expensive these days. The dining conservatory is like many modern places - noisy ! Stone floors, brick walls, wooden tables with old metal chairs. An atmosphere place. Rooms are expensive and breakfast is extra (£15); the food is reasonably priced by comparison. Very busy - trendy ! - Bill Wood - October 2017

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