The Mill House Hotel in the Cotswolds village of Kingham is, as the name suggests, a hotel housed in a converted flour mill. The mill on site dates back in some form or other to the 11th Century and the Domesday book, it's current form takes the guise of a mill built in the late 1700s (I believe), which was then subsequently converted and extended to accomodate the hotel, which closed in 2019. Currently there is a planning application for a renovation and reopening of the hotel by Daylesford Organics, a local company looking to expand their portfolio. Land next to the hotel would have seven new detached houses constructed on it, and of course the NIMBYs in the posh village aren't too fond of any large scale development like this, so nothing has happened yet.
Honestly, having had this pinned for the best part of a year, I never actually expected to get into here. These fresh closures aren't really my usual thing, however it is a local spot and I'm determined to not miss anything local, so after a lap of the building noting how all the windows and doors seemed to be screwed securely shut, we pretty much stumbled right into the access by chance and found ourselves inside the hotel. The first thing I noticed was an ear-piercing sound coming from the fire alarm panel, and the in-house CCTV system which was very much still turned on and chugging away happily, with a server rack and wifi router also flashing merrily away in the adjacent room, which was a little disconcerting. However the building was heavily stripped so it was obvious nobody was actually home.
I quite liked it here, there was still enough to see to make it worthwhile including a few remnants of it's former life as a mill in the restaurant area. It was also a wonderfully pretty building from the outside on a sunny day, a beautiful example of Cotswold architecture.
Thanks for looking
Honestly, having had this pinned for the best part of a year, I never actually expected to get into here. These fresh closures aren't really my usual thing, however it is a local spot and I'm determined to not miss anything local, so after a lap of the building noting how all the windows and doors seemed to be screwed securely shut, we pretty much stumbled right into the access by chance and found ourselves inside the hotel. The first thing I noticed was an ear-piercing sound coming from the fire alarm panel, and the in-house CCTV system which was very much still turned on and chugging away happily, with a server rack and wifi router also flashing merrily away in the adjacent room, which was a little disconcerting. However the building was heavily stripped so it was obvious nobody was actually home.
I quite liked it here, there was still enough to see to make it worthwhile including a few remnants of it's former life as a mill in the restaurant area. It was also a wonderfully pretty building from the outside on a sunny day, a beautiful example of Cotswold architecture.
Thanks for looking
