Gloucestershire-based Calcot Hotels has added The Cotswolds88 hotel in Painswick to its portfolio of hotels.
With previous owners Phil and Val Harris seeking to sell the 17-bedroom hotel as they planned their retirement, specialist property agent, Christie + Co approached Calcot Hotels as a potential buyer.
Perched high within the historic hilltop town of Painswick (which traces its history back to an Iron Age fort in 500-100 BC and in more recent times grew on the back of the wool trade), The Cotswolds 88 offers 17 guest bedrooms and suites, a 34 seat restaurant, a separate private dining/ meeting room and a beauty treatment room. With a civil wedding licence, ceremonies and receptions for some 60 guests can also be accommodated within this impressive late Palladian house.
Notable addition
“We are extremely excited to be the new owners of The Cotswolds88 and to be welcoming it as a notable addition to our collection of hotels,” comments Calcot Hotels’ Executive Chairman, Richard Ball. “The Cotswolds88 will fit superbly alongside sister Calcot Hotels, particularly those in Gloucestershire: Calcot Manor, Barnsley House and The Village Pub. Alongside The Lord Crewe Arms at Blanchland in Northumberland too – which we re-launched last April – The Cotswolds88 will place its own distinctive stamp as an individual hotel while sharing the defining ethos of all our properties that draw upon their heritage in a contemporary context that plays to their locality, underpinned by a strong reputation too for great food and drink, warm friendly service and value for money.
“We see The Cotswolds88 developing as a restaurant with rooms, embodying its current arty-ness while tapping in further to the artisan flavour for which Painswick and the surrounding area of Stroud is becoming increasingly known. Think Covent Garden shaking hands with the Cotswolds!”
Calcot Hotels’ in-house Design Director, Nicky Farquhar will address this brief when she creates new interior schemes for the complete refurbishment of the hotel later in the year. After a short closure, the re-named Cotswolds 88 will be re-launched just ahead of Christmas. Further details will be revealed in due course.
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