Thyme is an English country destination, nestled in the heart of the Cotswold village of Southrop. An enclosed collection of restored historic buildings form a peaceful hamlet environment, a ‘village within a village,’ that epitomises the understated & natural beauty of the surrounding area.
A sustainable ethos is rooted in the kitchen garden & farm, ensuring a gentle footprint in the local and global landscape. We offer hotel rooms, cottages, cookery school classes, spa facilities, tithe barn dining for celebrations & corporate events, cocktail bar, restaurant, village pub and gardens.
Rooms in the Lodge have their own individual character including a vintage Hollywood-styled room, complete with home cinema. Private access to the lawn with the iconic Cedar of Lebanon & fields beyond.
The Farmhouse, sits within its own English country garden featuring a traditional boules court. Inside, guests relax in the drawing room or for private events enjoy exclusive use of the house’s kitchen & dining room.
The Courtyard includes the Ox Houses, the Dairy & the Tallet: 17th century farm buildings that have been luxuriously renovated. Five contemporary Garden Rooms situated in the landscaped Ox Barn terrace, each with a private garden.
All rooms have ensuite facilities, some with roll-top baths in the rooms. Supremely comfortable mattresses & beautiful linen; tea & coffee making facilities; television; free Wifi; complimentary newspapers; bathrobes; True Grace toiletries.
For the more independent traveller who would like their own private living spaces, we have two cottages, The Tallet & Old Walls: one situated in the Courtyard at Thyme, the second in the village a five minute walk away.
Experience Meadow Spa’s inside outside spaces, the outside relaxation areas are as important to the spa experience as the Greenhouse and the Meadow Cottage. Each space is designed to nurture and encourage guests to embrace the peace associated with country living, to breathe deeply and stretch into an environment that echoes the well-being engendered by the natural world.
On offer is a bespoke menu of Thyme treatments in partnership with award-winning, natural British brand, Aurelia Probiotic Skincare. Sharing a mutual philosophy for natural ingredients and a ‘love of the land’, treatments are tailored specifically for mind and body harnessing unique probiotic ingredients to protect, restore and balance the skin from within.
For Hotel Residents Only there is the outside pool & hot tub … enclosed by Cotswold stone walls and sheltered even on winter days, guests have the opportunity to swim in pure spring water. Drawn from their own spring, a subterranean river 50 meters down, the water is filtered through Cotswold limestone and a revolutionary bio-filtration system, to deliver crystal clear water without the use of any chemicals.
