AWARDS & RATINGS

We classify as a "Guest House" (which means that you get a front door key and have exclusive use of the guest lounge and dining rooms) and have four stars, which is just about as high as we can go without moving to a different house with bigger rooms. We also have a silver quality award which tends to suggest that we are a bit better than your average Guest House.

This is a tourist board thing that basically means that we will provide somewhere for your your wet clothes to try and dry out and can store your bike somewhere a bit more secure than leaving it out the front.

We have this award because we try to use only local produce from local suppliers. Click on the logo for more info.

We were among the first business to gain this local Environmental Award. This was achieved by proving that we really are making our effort to be “green” by recycling, conserving energy and buying local to avoid using the car as much as possible.

However in the last year or so this scheme seems to us to have lost its way and, in our opinion, has become to much concerned with tourism rather than staying true to its original environmental brief.

What is more serious is that we have found that abiding by the award rules, at least in the way we interpret them, actually appears to makes us go further afield for our local produce; and we believe that this damages our environmental credibility. We have therefore decided to leave this scheme and care for the environment in our own (better?) way.