Cottage of Content

Good Pub Guide Recommended

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

You can make the most of the tranquil position of this nicely tucked-away medieval cottage by bagging one of the picnic-sets, either on the flower-filled front terrace or in the rural-feeling garden at the back. The place 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, a gin list and local cider and perry during the summer. The bedrooms are quiet and the breakfasts good.

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

Rewarding food includes tapas on Friday evening (5.30-7pm), as well as venison terrine with fig jam, tian of smoked salmon, crab and mussels with celeriac rémoulade and mustard and dill sauce, mushroom, brie, hazelnut and cranberry wellington, honey-roast ham and free-range eggs, a pie of the day, duck breast with lime mash and black cherry jus, beef slow-cooked in ale and treacle with thyme-buttered cabbage, a fresh fish dish of the day, and puddings such as white chocolate and raspberry cheesecake and rice pudding brûlée with rhubarb and ginger.