HOTEL REVIEW


troughs. Individually named, these range from The Piggery, a hideaway suite on two levels offering fantastic views over the surrounding countryside, to the family friendly Pig Sty, comprising a double bedroom, lounge and bunk room. The relaxed style carries on in the communal areas where stuffed boars’ heads overlook the dark green bar and an enormous pike is mounted above the fireplace. The sitting room is characterised by raw brickwork and trompe l’oeil aged plaster walls, with the library enhanced by quirky wallpaper and a book selection that includes everything from tomes on New Forest wildlife through to practical accounting. The hotel grounds encompass gravel paths leading to the walled kitchen garden, a wild flower meadow orchard, chicken coops and a paddock with its own pigs. Beyond the garden pond is ‘The Potting Shed’ – a garden shed, transformed into a single spa treatment room where guests can enjoy massage treatments by therapists dispatched from Lime Wood’s


award winning Herb House Spa. But it’s the food that really sets The Pig


apart. At breakfast, the rough hewn wooden surfaces of the restaurant groan under the weight of home-made preserves, cereals and breads. The honeycomb is from a local beehive and pressed juices are served from 1930’s style metals jugs. At night time, the lights dim and candles flicker as diners settle down for an evening of what the hotel enticingly describes as “quaffing and troughing”. The ‘piggy bits’ that top the bill on the menu offer such porcine delights as Saddleback scratchings, baby sausage rolls, and charcuterie cured in the hotel’s own smokehouse. For the remaining courses, local produce takes centre stage – brill from the Solent, Lyme bay scallops, New Forest venison and game, and meats from award winning butchers T Bartlett & Sons. Desserts include fruits harvested from nearby hedgerows, home made ice creams and hearty baked puddings – swine dining, indeed.


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The Potting Shed was formerly a garden shed and has been transformed into a single treatment room for spa treatments and massages


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The Pig Beaulieu Road, Brockenhurst, The New Forest, Hampshire SO42 7QL, UK Tel: +44 (0)1590 622 354 www.thepighotel.co.uk


„ 26 guestrooms (16 in the main house 10 in the stableyard) ‰ The Pig Restaurant  Bar, Library & Lounge [ Potting Shed (single treatment room) + Green room, Kitchen Garden, Smoke House, Foraging, Tennis court, Bikes


Onwer / Operator: Home Grown Hotels Interior Design: Judy Hutson Architect: PWP Architects Contractors : Link to build


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