Sometimes I surprise myself when I tell guests that we have only been open for just over a year. In particular I am amazed at just how much we have done since we took over this derelict grade 2 listed building. We have a spacious art gallery downstairs and 14 art themed rooms upstairs. Our art gallery has exhibitions by Gilliam Bates, Catherine Birchwood, Lucy Bourne, Sheila Bourne, Ben Eggleston and Paul Jordan.
Upstairs we now have all of the rooms at the front open with just ten more to go before we complete the set. The ensuite bed rooms have all been refurbished and redecorated to a very high standard and everyone is unique in terms of its colour and theme...eat your heart out Holiday Inn!. Frank has been out shopping again so we can now boast that all of our rooms have flat screen colour TVs as well as DVDs. Complementary toiletries and tea/coffee making facilities as well as an iron and an ironing board are also provided.
Our builder is just finishing off the rendering on the basement and we are beginning to get the back gardens sorted out. Our next major job is the back of the hotel which should cause no inconvenience as 12 out of 14 rooms are at the front and we only have two (single) room s at the rear of the hotel presently open. When the back has been rendered and repainted we will start on the back rooms and open some superior single rooms...but that will have to wait till 2010 so watch this space.
