West Down Guest House

About

West Down is an AA award winning farm guest house providing superb dinner, bed and breakfast accommodation in a glorious area of North Devon. The guest accommodation is beautifully furnished and has lots of attention to detail to make your stay as comfortable as possible. All the bedrooms are fitted with an ensuite and include remote control colour TVs and hostess trays, stocked with West Country teas, coffee and biscuits.
We have recently opened two new rooms on the ground floor, which are available with direct wheelchair access from the carpark, with those with reduced mobility. These also have wheelchair access into a large shower wet room.

West Down has several public rooms on the ground floor and consist of a conservatory/dining room with individual dining tables for you to enjoy our AA award winning West Country breakfasts and evening meals which are served with a complimentary glass of wine. The conservatory has a relaxed seating area that overlooks the garden and ponds, from here you can watch our resident wild birds, we are often visited by woodpeckers, great tits, chaffinches and many more beautiful wild birds that come to feed from our garden feeders. Our gardens, which are flat with gently sloping grounds have ponds and water features and are maintained by Roger, who also grows the fruit and vegetables for our kitchens and keeps an endless supply of fresh flowers ready for the guest house. As well as the gardens and conservatory, guests are welcome to enjoy our cosy lounge area with a log burner for those cooler evenings.

West Down is on the edge of the Exmoor National Park, an Area of Outstanding National Beauty and is close miles of sandy Blue Flag beaches, such as Croyde Bay, Woolacombe and Saunton Sands. Coastal villages such as Clovelly, Hartland Point, Westward Ho!, Appledore, Instow, Ilfracombe, Lynton, Lynemouth and Porlock are within easy driving distances from West Down and make for great exploration in all seasons. Staying at the West Down makes for a great base to explore the beautiful North Devon country side. Lundy Island is also well worth visiting you can access it by catching the ferry service from Ilfracombe or Bideford in the summer or by helicopter from Hartland Point in the winter. Inland, the North Devon historic market towns and villages such as Barnstaple, Bideford, Umberleigh, Torrington and South Molton are within easy reach and provide hours of exploration due to their quaint lanes full of antique shops and independent coffee shops brimming full of home baked cakes and of course, Devon Cream teas. Just be careful to make sure that you place the jam and cream on the scone in the right order or you might be frog marched across the border into Cornwall. From West Down you also have easy access to the National Trust stately homes and grounds in the area such as Arlington Court and Dunster Castle, as well stately gardens such as RHS Rosemoor, Marwood Hill and Tapeley Park Gardens offer incredible opportunities for exploration before returning to West Down for a well-earned award-winning evening meal.

Home cooked evening meals are freshly prepared using produce from the guest house gardens wherever possible and meat, fish and dairy products from trusted local West Country suppliers. Special diets and requirements are well catered for, Brenda is happy to discuss these with you prior to your visit to make sure that you are confident that your needs are fully met and that your stay is an enjoyable one.