The Lamb Inn

The inn is a stunningly beautiful old stone building. The ground floor housing the bar and restaurant area is absolutely full of character with old beams, flagstone floors, open log fires and soft lighting. Everything as warm as toast during our cold February stay. Our bed was king-size, as opposed to double, which is always a plus for us. Very comfortable mattress and spotless bedding. It is located in the centre of a picture perfect village. The staff were genuinely as friendly and welcoming as you could wish for.

We couldn't rate our stay as highly as we would have liked. There was major refurbishment of rooms going on throughout our stay. Consequently there was a lot of noise involving crashing and banging of doors, conversations etc adjacent to our room starting early in the morning. For whatever reason, maybe not associated with the refurbishment, this would continue until very late at night. It's possible we were just unlucky with our room allocation but I do think this particular room should not have been offered to guests during this period. Added to this was the fact that our room had yet to be refurbished. The carpet was obviously due to be replaced because it was, rather unpleasantly, heavily stained. I do think we should have been given the option of one of the refurbished rooms when they became available, as I'm sure they did. The second night of our stay, a Sunday, we dined in the restaurant. Lovely ambience, but it became apparent that, towards the end of the day the roast beef carvery which we ordered had reached a point where it was way below standard. Without going into too much detail there was just one slice of beef, and a considerable amount of gristle. We were seriously disappointed. It should have been taken off the menu. As for the cauliflower cheese !!