Murcott Mill

Comfortable rooms with everything available that you could need. Wonderful breakfast. The host was very helpful and friendly. Very secluded on a working farm. Lovely old Regency building. We stopped over to break up our journey and booked the mill last minute. We weren’t rushed in the morning and left refreshed.

When first looking for accommodation, the reviews gave an extremely favourable impression. The rooms are furnished in a very old fashioned manner, and are very tired. The heating seemed to be turned on and off on a timer, so when we returned at night the rooms were freezing and remained so throughout the night. The bed creaked every time I sat on it to get in or out, making me feel like an 80 year old. The serving bed in the room was positioned close to one of the windows and these were very drafty with an armchair in front of it, but this left access to and from the bed very limited it was a bit of a squeeze. The bedside lamps were touch sensitive but had to go through a sequence before they went off. It was very disturbing for the other person in the room if you needed to turn the lamp on in the night. The "ensuite" was adequate, but only just, with a really old electric pump in the shower that fluctuated dangerously from scalding to freezing whilst trying to shower. Electric sockets all had extension leads trailing around the room, but not one seemed to be PAT tested.... worse was the total lack of any fire or evacuation procedures/ instructions visible anywhere in the room, the dining room, or anywhere that were visible to us (though fire escapes were visible from the outside) . The breakfast was OK, though half a glass of orange juice each was ready poured on the table when we entered the dining room, no cold water was provided. The train line embankment at most approx 100 yards from the property, and despite lots of reviews saying they never heard the trains..... we damn well did on both of the nights we stayed! Finally, we don't recommend trying to find this place on a dark wet night. The lane runs through fields, then takes a sharp left and is a single track, where on a dark, very wet night, it's easy to lose visibility and slip off onto the surrounding field. And no, we won't be returning or recommending.

Was very good for the purpose. Need somewhere comfortable and affordable for our overnight excursion.Quiet which aided a good night's sleep. Well located and easy to find. Nice rural location whilst adjacent to the town.