Hotel Grosvenor

Shaftesbury, Dorset, UK

Facilities

  • Dining:The Greenhouse restaurant is open 7 days a week for breakfast and serves a modern dinner menu Monday - Saturday.
  • Communal areas: There’s a cosy little lounge area on the ground floor, and a relaxed seating area in the restaurant
  • Internet Access: Free WiFi in rooms and public areas
  • Swimming Pool: None
  • Spa Treatments: Not in the hotel, but massages and other treatments can be arranged through a local beauty salon
  • Weddings and Celebrations: The 40ft first-floor ballroom offers a magnificent space, ideal for wedding receptions and parties (think elegant, intimate receptions rather than lively discos), plus the hotel’s in-house team can handle all the arrangements. Groups can also use the open-air terrace and the restaurant. For ceremonies, the old town hall and pretty St Mark's church are 250m from the hotel.
  • Max. Wedding Guests: 60
  • Meetings/Functions: Meetings and events for up to 20 people (in the hotel’s private dining room) or in the ballroom (maximum of 60 people). Business delegate rates include lunch, refreshments, stationery and flip-charts
  • Disabled Access: There is one disabled accessible room, reached by a lift to the first floor
  • Pets: The hotel is happy to accept small, well-behaved dogs, though in small doses (no more than a couple of pooches at a time)

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Laundry service

When to go?

Dorset is a year-round destination - lovely in the summer but less crowded in the spring and autumn (when it's perfect for walkers), and rarely freezing in the winter.

Features include:

  • Restaurant
  • Bar
  • Vegetarian menu
  • Breakfast
  • Walk to restaurants (offsite)
  • Terrace
  • Guest lounge
  • WIFI internet
  • Available for exclusive use
  • Function facilities
  • Disabled access
  • Pets welcome by arrangement
  • Off street parking
Save to favouritesPrintMailHotel GrosvenorOne of the oldest, highest and arguably the prettiest hill towns in rural England, Shaftesbury is the essence of olde Dorset-shire. It has Saxon roots, a whiff of Thomas Hardy, cobbles, thatch, and a bird’s eye view of the Blackmore Vale from the top of iconic Gold Hill - famously captured in a sepia-tinted, 1970s advert for Hovis loaves, directed, incidentally, by a young Ridley Scott. Hotel Grosvenor is the high street’s grande dame. Remodelled in the 18th century by the Duke of Westminster, it is Grade II* listed with a showy Georgian frontage and a splendid ballroom - but don’t imagine a trip down history’s memory lane. The once faded inn underwent a glamourous makeover when it was bought in 2006, and has recently come under the management of the luxury hotel group, Bespoke Hotels. The emphasis is on 21st-century urban style: bold colour schemes (vibrant pinks, aubergines and electric blues), funky contemporary lighting by designer Bruce Munro (fibre-optic chandeliers, glassy tear-drop clusters), contemporary art, a cocktail bar (with a hint of nightclub) and a slate-lined inner courtyard. There is nothing small-town about this smart, country-loving hotel.

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