Cottage of Content

Good Pub Guide Recommended

Country furnishings in a friendly rustic cottage with interesting food, real ales and seats on terraces; bedrooms

Once this was three tucked-away labourers' cottages with its own integral cider and ale parlour. The inn has much character and there's a friendly welcome, a multitude of beams and country furnishings such as stripped-pine kitchen chairs, long pews beside one big table and various old-fashioned tables on flagstones or bare boards. Hobsons Best and Wye Valley Butty Bach on handpump, seven wines by the glass, a gin list and local cider and perry during the summer. You can make the most of the tranquil position by bagging one of the picnic-sets, either on the flower-filled front terrace or in the rural-feeling garden at the back. Bedrooms are quiet and the breakfasts are good.

Bar food times: 12-2, 6.30-9; 12-2 Sun

Tasty food includes sandwiches, twice-baked cheese soufflé with mustard and ale sauce, pulled pork rillettes with roast pepper and chilli jam, aubergine and carrot pancakes with ratatouille, spiced feta, hummus and harissa dressing, tea-smoked duck breast with garlic mash, roasted root vegetables and fig chutney, steak in ale pie, fish dish of the day, griddled pork and chorizo cassoulet with black pudding and apple and roast celeriac, and puddings such as pink peppercorn meringue with clotted cream ice-cream and blackcurrant sundae and whisky marmalade pudding with custard; they also have a Friday tapas evening (5.30-7pm).