Bed & Breakfast in the Barn
Enjoy the fat of the land in the BARN at LOWER FARM, SHEPTON MONTAGUE. The view from the breakfast table is of rural tranquillity: hens scratching in the orchard, and an inspiring vegetable garden.
The hamlet of Shepton Montague lies down meandering Somerset lanes that
defy sat-nav, and where the only street lighting is the moon. The population
has been slowly dwindling since the Black Death.
Charles & Susie Dowding offer Bed & Breakfast in a self-contained apartment on the upper floor of a listed 18th century granary barn. They produce as much of their food as they can (organically) and otherwise source it in the village or locally where possible.
Charles & Susie Dowding offer Bed & Breakfast in a self-contained apartment on the upper floor of a listed 18th century granary barn. They produce as much of their food as they can (organically) and otherwise source it in the village or locally where possible.
"Turning over a new leaf" - Matthew Fort on a pioneering salad grower in Somerset, The Guardian, Saturday 2 June 2007
"There was something of The Good Life about all this. So good, in fact, that I was tempted to book into the B&B so I could indulge in a breakfast of eggs, apple juice, crunchy cereal, yogurt and home-baked bread smeared with unpasteurised butter and decorated with home-made jam. But no, I had to get back to write this column. The sacrifices I make." Read the full article...
Lower Farm is also featured in Alastair Sawday’s
Special Places to Stay,
British Bed & Breakfast, “The Good Life in the depths of Somerset” and
Go Slow England (Alastair Sawday).
