An eight-room hotel run more like a private house than a chain. These are the working choices behind the difference.
We chose to be small, to staff generously, and to keep the kitchen and the front desk talking. Almost everything follows from those three decisions.
We could have fit far more rooms in the original footprint. We kept the parlour floors as parlour floors and reserved the upper storeys for guests.
The result is a quieter house, longer breakfasts, and a staff who tend to remember your coffee order by the second morning.
Where the original woodwork could be saved, it was. Where it could not, we used local craftspeople to match it. The drawing room mantel is the one Wheeler installed in 1870.
There is no minibar key card, no upsell, and no surcharge for late check-out. We would rather build a long relationship than maximise a single visit.
