The Porterhouse

Joshua greeted us on arrival in the bar and showed us to our room on the first floor at the side of the pub. A pleasant room which despite having both sash window open was rather warm, but it was nearly 30°c outside. There was a fan which helped to cool the room a little. The bed, or at least the mattress seem almost brand new and had several toppers and protectors on. A fussy sleeper I was impressed with the bedsheet and duvet quality and laundering. My wife and I agreed it was an extremely comfortable bed and despite the temperature we had a very comfortable undisturbed night. The shower was a soaker type and had plenty of pressure and was great. It had nowhere to put your shower gel and shampoo though and some of the grouting was a little grubby. The room overall was very clean and had available plug sockets at the sides of the bed for phone charging etc. In fact I managed to leave my watch charger there and Elle kindly arranged for its return by post and wouldn’t take any postage payment. We had a very nice pizza, a beer and a glass of wine in the teepee in the small garden out the back which was quite unusual and very pleasant. Breakfast is a self service continental in the shared kitchen adjacent to our room. There was a reasonable choice available on the evening we arrived but by the next morning a lot of it was taken by the only other guests, 2 young guys in the room at the end of the hall, so our choice was limited, although I’m sure if we’d asked the pub would have replenished it, but we didn’t bother. So overall we would definitely stay again and thoroughly recommend it. Thank you team.