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The Pig Hotels has announced plans to open two new hotels in 2024 and 2025 after acquiring permission to convert two listed buildings into hotels.
In Stratford-UponAvon, the Pig on the Farm will be converted from a mid-16th Century listed stone-built farmhouse, surrounded by convertible barns, stables and out houses, set in 53 acres of land in rural England.
The Pig on the Farm will open in 2024 and is located on the southwest edge of the Walton Estate in South Warwickshire close to the borders of Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire.
The farmhouse was previously owned by the Mordaunt family, the land includes part of a deserted Mediaeval village to the southeast of the existing house alongside a major tributary to the River Dene.
The following year, The Pig at Groombridge will open its doors. The property is a 13th Century moated manor house in the village of Groombridge southwest of Tunbridge Wells.
The hotel group said that plans for The Pig at Groombridge are ongoing with initial ideas of creating 40 plus bedrooms.
It also stated that when works get underway, the team responsible for restoring these buildings will create restaurants with rooms, “slightly larger” than previously seen.
Of the new properties, Robin Hutson, chairman of The Pig Hotels, said: “We are excited to acquire two genuinely unspoilt listed gems. We look forward to doing these beautiful buildings justice and restoring them sensitively, with their historic importance at the forefront of our decision making.
“These fascinating buildings complement our existing portfolio with each of them situated some distance from our other hotels. As with all of our hotels, we hope to create these with unique characteristics yet still very much designed with the quality of detail that has become the Pig look.”
