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We offer stylish and superior bed and breakfast accommodation in a detached Arts and Crafts house. We are located a ten-minute walk from Oxford High Street, on a main bus-route into the city. Off-road parking is available, and guests enjoy the use of the large walled garden and comfortable sitting room.
At The Orchard House we offer two double rooms with en-suite shower rooms, and a twin/double room with neighbouring shower room.
The bedrooms are smart and quietly luxurious. Each has a sofa, breakfast table, television, tea and coffee making facilities and hairdryer. The bathrooms are sleek and modern, with limestone floors and powerful showers.
Breakfast is served in your room or in the original artist’s studio between 7.30 and 9.30am. Breakfasts use high quality, fresh ingredients, organic when available, and produce from the garden in season. Home made jam accompanies the freshly baked bread, and the coffee is freshly ground. A small selection of sweet and savoury accompaniments for tea or drinks is available, and we can, with notice, supply you with picnic lunches. Guests enjoy the use of a sitting room retaining its original Arts and Crafts interior and the secluded garden with its established shrubs, tree peonies and orchard fruit trees.A small library of general book titles, local guides and maps is available, along with games for quiet days and evenings in.
The garden, a remnant of the orchard that once existed in this part of Oxford, contains old fruit trees, box hedging and a particularly lovely magnolia dating from the building of the house. A colony of old tree peonies flowers in late spring, preceded by hellebores and drifts of snowdrops. The productive vegetable garden supplies breakfast ingredients in season. Although only a short stroll from the centre of Oxford, the house and garden offer a surprisingly peaceful retreat. |