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The Wheatsheaf Inn
€199.90/ Night
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A 17th-century coaching inn in the quiet wool town of Northleach, with 14 characterful bedrooms, a serious seasonal kitchen and a tiered Cotswold garden.
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Need To Know
- 14 individually designed bedrooms, several with a zinc or copper bath in the room
- A 17th-century coaching inn in the quiet wool town of Northleach
- A seasonal modern-British kitchen, bar, snug and private dining room (up to 24)
- A three-tiered garden with pizza oven, outdoor bar and the glass Garden Room
- Hypnos beds and organic Bramley toiletries throughout; dogs welcome in many rooms
- Properly dog- and family-friendly; biscuits and water on hand for pups
- Well placed for Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Chedworth and Cheltenham
Check in - Check out
Check in from 14:00; check out before 12:00.
We Love
- The food — chalk-stream trout, local game, coastal oysters and a sticky toffee pudding with a following, from a seasonal kitchen rated among the county's best.
- The rooms — 14 of them, each different, with Hypnos beds, Bramley toiletries and bold wallpapers; the best have a zinc or copper bath set in the room.
- The garden — three tiers behind the pub with a wood-fired pizza oven, an outdoor bar and a glass-roofed Garden Room that opens to the stars on summer nights.
- The inn — beams, worn flagstones and a fire in the snug; a working village local where the bar still hums on a Saturday, not a restaurant with beds bolted on.
- The welcome — dogs greeted with biscuits and water and allowed throughout, families genuinely catered for, and a local team quick with a walking tip.
Key Features
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Location
Address
Address: The Wheatsheaf Inn West End, Northleach, Gloucestershire GL54 3EZ
Travel Info
The Wheatsheaf sits on West End in the heart of Northleach, just off the A40 between Cheltenham and Burford, with parking on site. Cheltenham's station is about 30 minutes by car and central London roughly two hours; a car is useful for the villages.
Nearby Places
Raf Brize Norton
19600m
Asaba International Airport
42500m
Last Updated: 2026-06-18
Expert Review
Origins
The Wheatsheaf is a 17th-century coaching inn in the heart of Northleach, one of the Cotswolds' quietest and least trampled wool towns. For generations it served travellers on the old road between Gloucester and London, and it has been woven into the life of the town ever since — an ivy-clad stone front, beams and worn flagstones within, a fire going in the colder months and the bar still the place the village gathers.
Reborn as a pub with rooms, it has built a name that travels well beyond Northleach, chiefly on its cooking. The kitchen works closely with the seasons and the surrounding farms: chalk-stream trout, local meat and autumn game, oysters brought up from the coast, and a sticky toffee pudding locals will argue is the finest for miles, all poured against a wine list longer and cleverer than a village pub has any need to be. The bar keeps its own character alongside — cask ales, a snug, log fires — so the place reads as a proper inn that happens to cook seriously, rather than a restaurant that happens to have beds.
The 14 bedrooms carry the same idea, setting the bones of the old inn against real comfort: exposed stone and beams under bold Lewis & Wood-style wallpapers, Hypnos beds, organic Bramley toiletries, and in the best rooms a zinc or copper bath standing in the room itself. Behind the pub, a garden falls away over three tiers, with a wood-fired pizza oven, an outdoor bar and a glass-roofed Garden Room that opens to the night sky and hosts the inn's monthly acoustic sessions. Dogs are welcomed with biscuits and water and roam throughout; families are properly looked after; and Bibury, Bourton-on-the-Water, Chedworth Roman Villa and Cheltenham are all a short drive off.
Top Secret
Come in summer, and head straight through to the garden. It falls away in three tiers behind the pub, with a wood-fired pizza oven, an outdoor bar and a spritz list built for slow afternoons; on the long light evenings the glass roof of the Garden Room slides back to the stars, and once a month local musicians play acoustic sets out among the planting. Dogs are welcome the length of it, biscuits and water always going, so nobody in the party gets left behind.
The Review
The Wheatsheaf is the coaching inn people hope to stumble on in the Cotswolds and rarely do: properly old, properly of its village, and serious about food without a flicker of stuffiness. It stands on West End in Northleach — a handsome wool town the coach tours tend to skip — and the moment you step in past the beams, flagstones and lit fire, it reads as the real article rather than a country-house tribute act.
The kitchen is the draw. Cooking shifts with the seasons and leans hard on the surrounding farms and the coast: chalk-stream trout, spatchcock chicken, local game, oysters, and a sticky toffee pudding that turns up in reviews more often than the rooms do, with a wine list staff actually know their way around. Those rooms hold their own — 14 of them, each different, Hypnos beds and Bramley oils, statement wallpapers, several with a zinc or copper tub to fold into after a day on the field paths. Out the back, the three-tiered garden, pizza oven and glass Garden Room turn summer lunches into whole afternoons. It earns its place among the best tables in the county, and backs it with a bed worth staying for.
It is a pub with rooms, not a grand hotel, and the appeal sits exactly there: informal, dog- and family-friendly, loud in the bar on a Saturday, and the better for being in a town the crowds overlook. The food can run a touch quick at peak times — dishes arriving in a brisk procession — but that is a small price against the cooking and the welcome. As a characterful base for the central Cotswolds, with Bibury, Bourton and Chedworth within a few miles and the great wool church a two-minute walk, it is a genuinely easy place to give over a few days to.
