The Talkhouse

4.0 / 5.0

Good(169 Ratings)

Bed and Breakfast in South Oxfordshire District

3-Star Hotel

Reasons to book

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area

Includes essentialsGarden, Pets allowed, Internet / Wifi and more

About this bed and breakfast

Offering a terrace and garden view, The Talkhouse is set in Stanton Saint John, 10 km from University of Oxford and 20 km from Notley Abbey. Both free WiFi and parking on-site are available at the bed and breakfast free of charge.

Amenities

Pets allowed

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Balcony or Patio

Garden

Map of South Oxfordshire District

Nearby attractions

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

4.1 mi

Bletchley Park

23.6 mi

Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens

21 mi

Brooklands Museum

41.8 mi

Available Rooms

Double Room with Private Bathroom

1 Double • 215 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Small Double Room

1 Double • 215 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

$$$$

The Talkhouse

$$$$

4.0 / 5.0

Good(169 Ratings)

Bed and Breakfast in South Oxfordshire District

3-Star Hotel

Reasons to book

Great for petsBring all your friends and family, even the furry ones

Great price for your budgetOne of the lowest cost properties in the area

Includes essentialsGarden, Pets allowed, Internet / Wifi and more

About this bed and breakfast

Amenities

Pets allowed

Internet / Wifi

Parking

Balcony or Patio

Garden

Map of South Oxfordshire District

Nearby attractions

Oxford University Museum of Natural History

4.1 mi

Bletchley Park

23.6 mi

Cotswold Wildlife Park & Gardens

21 mi

Brooklands Museum

41.8 mi

Available Rooms

Double Room with Private Bathroom

1 Double • 215 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Small Double Room

1 Double • 215 ft²

Sleeps 2

You'll be directed to Booking.com for availability & pricing

Ratings and reviews

4.0 / 5.0

Good(169 Ratings)

100% verified reviews

4.0 / 5.0

Jun 2024

Wie man es sich vorstellt - typisch englischer Charme ohne Touristennepp.

Super tolles, uriges Pub. Beachtet die Schließzeiten am Sonntag, da es in der Nähe leine Alternative zum Essen gibt. Schöner Innenhof zum Sitzen. Sehr schöner Ort (Häuser- keine Infrastruktur)

Man muss wissen, dass es mitten auf dem Land liegt. Pub war geschlossen und es gab nichts zu Trinken im Zimmer. Man sollte satt und nicht durstig ankommen, sollte man außerhalb der Puböffnungszeiten dort sein.

3.5 / 5.0

Jan 2024

Nice easy clean

Location cozy atmosphere

Timeschedule Breakfast Was only late breakfast available after 0900

2.0 / 5.0

Dec 2023

Cosy pub, friendly staff but unfortunately disappointing.

Close to Oxford and easy to get to. Cosy pub with friendly staff.

Rooms are right by the smoking area, with no blind to the bathroom. The obscured glass does not hide anything when people are literally outside the room, therefore we avoided showering until the pub closed and still felt uncomfortable. Rooms have no sound proofing, we could hear next door coughing, talking, turning lights on and off, urinating into the toilet bowl. Sleep quality was 0 as we kept being woken by one of our neighbours. Several areas of thick dust.

5.0 / 5.0

Sep 2023

Perfect

Beautiful breakfast. Catered for vegetarians

I wouldn’t change anything. I had a great stay

4.5 / 5.0

Sep 2023

Eine sehr schöne Unterkunft mit freundlichem Personal!

Wir hatten kein Frühstück, uns wurden aber zwei Möglichkeiten angeboten. Zudem gab es genügend Kaffee, Tee und Kakao sowie einen Wasserkocher auf dem Zimmer.

5.0 / 5.0

Aug 2023

Another perfect stay

Love the place. Cracking staff, beautiful rooms and amazing food

Nowt

4.5 / 5.0

Aug 2023

Superb

Fantastic location. Food excellent. Lots of gluten free options

Breakfast was expensive for what it was

5.0 / 5.0

Aug 2023

Amazing!

This place is beautiful! The rooms were lovely, clean and comfortable. The staff were all really friendly and helpful. The food is incredible! It is so worth ordering the full English breakfast. It’s the best hotel breakfast I’ve ever had. I was travelling with my parents and they absolutely loved the place. We will all definitely be back in the future.

4.0 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Adequate but lacking some little bit more attention to detail.

We liked the restaurant and food

No hot water in the morning to have a shower. Room smaller than we had expected.

2.0 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Lovely old pub, that you don't actually stay in. Very overpriced for what you get

The actual character of the old pub was beautiful!! so much to look at and admire.

The accommodation was in the old stables off the pub, so you don't actually stay in the old pub. The rooms faced the courtyard so patrons were dining/smoking and drinking in the courtyard up until 930pm also with kids running up and down the verandah outside our room. I did enquire with the staff as to when the noise would lessen they replied around 930pm when patrons would start to leave. Staff were a little nonchalant at it all. It was one of the most pricey accommodation we stayed in on our trip and felt very overcharged for what we got

4.0 / 5.0

Jun 2023

Beautiful English pub with beautiful accommodation. Great place to start our UK holiday

Minor hiccup with hot water on our second morning

5.0 / 5.0

Apr 2023

A great place to stay for a break in Oxford!

Great quiet location, but around 20 minutes from the main city centre. Room was well equipped and comfortable. All staff were fantastic, special mention to James, Sara, Libby, Katie and Cydney!

All was ok with the property

4.0 / 5.0

Mar 2023

Very good

good for leisure stay and the food of the restaurant is excellent!

1.0 / 5.0

Mar 2023

Dead rats and extortionate breakfasts!

The pub and staff were lovely

Unfortunately we did not have a very good stay. The room and bed linen were dusty and dirty. The “continental breakfast” that cost is £15 consisted of a cheap, stale croissant and coco pops!! The room was located next to the smoking area of the pub and right underneath a speaker that played 80s music until closing! To top it all off there was a dead rat right outside our bedroom window. Thankfully my husband didn’t tell me at the time as I have a huge phobia. It’s such a shame as the pub was lovely. With a bit more effort, the rooms could be too.

3.5 / 5.0

Mar 2023

Really good value room at a lovely country pub with great food.

The pub was welcoming and the food was excellent in lovely surroundings. The room was generally clean and fine for a one night stay. The bathroom was nice with a lovely big shower.

We were not made aware of any wifi and couldn't find anything in the room telling us if there was wifi. The bathroom had a funny smell - possibly the drains.

3.0 / 5.0

Feb 2023

Pleasant

Bedding could do with upgrading. Cleaning could be improved

Dirty toilet and very dirty toilet brush. Very old and flat pillows.

2.0 / 5.0

Feb 2023

A nice enough room spoiled by old, uncomfortable, and less than clean bedding.

The location was good. The room small but adequate with an excellent shower and easily controlled heating. Money has clearly been spent on some nice touches with co-ordinated lamp shades, &c.

The bed was appalling. The mattress old and lumpy and lacking a mattress protector. The pillows yellowed to near brown with age and limp. The bed linens old and torn, and covered with an open weave wool throw that has definitely seem better days. A pity that so much has been invested in providing good facilities, with so little attention to sleep comfort.

5.0 / 5.0

Feb 2023

Exceptional

My partner & I really loved our stay at the talkhouse. All the staff were so friendly and helpful. The food was delicious and our room was so comfortable. Beautiful building and in a lovely setting. Easy too, to get to the park & ride into Oxford.

Two tiny things , no WiFi or BBC channels

4.5 / 5.0

Feb 2023

Superb

Staff were really friendly, breakfast was lovely and room was clean and comfortable. We really enjoyed our stay here and would stay again

You need to be able to drive to stay here as its on its own down a country lane

5.0 / 5.0

Jan 2023

Comfortable, clean, dog friendly, incredible food and great beer!

The property was superb, outside of the pub in an annexe, the room was warm and peaceful. The room was comfortable with a great bathroom adjoined and a good TV to match. The Talkhouse itself was fantastic, the food was superb (eat the duck chips), the staff were friendly and accommodating, the beer superb and everything well priced. Plenty of parking in a private car park too which was useful. We will be staying again!

Nothing.

4.5 / 5.0

Jan 2023

Superb

The room was very clean and the location tranquil. The pub is beautiful and serves tasty food. Weather was very cold, however the room stayed toasty and it was possible to regulate the temperature.

Room felt a bit smaller than expected.

2.0 / 5.0

Jan 2023

Overpriced

The location for Oxford was great. Very close to park and ride. The pub itself was nice and the food, whilst expensive was good. The staff were polite.

The room itself was freezing when we arrived and smelt terrible. We had to immediately put the heating on and it took a good hour to warm up. Speaking of the heating, the plumbing in the rooms was incredibly noisy. A constant knocking noise through the night..This can be forgiven as these are converted stables but it was very loud in the night. Especially when the toilet was flushed. Over night we were woken by rats/ mice scurrying over the room. We accept this happens in more rural locations but efforts could be made to deter them. The rooms are tired and could use refreshing, paint work coming away including the bathroom radiator peeling all over the bathroom floor and mould around the bath and shower screen. The main areas of the room have been cleaned but the corners and under the bed neglected. The bedside lamps did not work, blown bulbs. The worst aspect was the shouting and swearing from the kitchen at about 9pm. Presumably celebrating the end of their shift. There were a number of staff shouting very loudly 'f' this 'f' that. It was incredibly unpleasant. When we checked out I handed the key in. They did not ask us how our stay was. Just took the key and said thank you.

5.0 / 5.0

Jan 2023

very comfortable and polite staff and great food

just a great stay

the rooms and the restaurant

4.0 / 5.0

Dec 2022

Good food. Friendly staff

Staff. Surroundings. Heritage of the building

The automatic added service charge

4.5 / 5.0

Nov 2022

Close to Oxford but in delightful country setting. Proper traditional Inn with modern twist. Comfortable bed and amazing

Very sweet rooms with private entrance

5.0 / 5.0

Oct 2022

Very happy and would recommend to friends and would come back again! Staff were lovely 😊

Loved this cute little place which was out of the way, quiet, quaint and just what we were looking for.

Very happy with everything!!

3.0 / 5.0

Oct 2022

Wonderful location, service is lacking

The location was wonderful, perfect for daytrips to Oxford and the Cotswolds when you have a car. The staff was friendly and dinner at the Pub was great value.

The beds were too small (1.20 m?). Cooked breakfast was only available from 10 AM, continental breakfast was available before. These were cold croissants etc delivered at the door, not great value for money. Rooms were not cleaned, no fresh towels or clean cups: we had to ask for these ourselves. Note also that on sundays the pub is closed, meaning we didn't have cups to make some tea that evening.

5.0 / 5.0

Oct 2022

Exceptional

the location

3.5 / 5.0

Oct 2022

Lovely location

The full English breakfast was a little expensive but delicious. The granola option was definitely not worth the money.

The shower flooded the bathroom which caused a few issues

2.5 / 5.0

Oct 2022

Passable

Good location with parking

noisy room and much smaller than depicted on website. could not unpack case. towels permanently wet (could not dry them)

3.5 / 5.0

Sep 2022

Generally good .

Breakfast was good

The drains in the bathroom were blocked and the first day we couldn't have a shower, Having said that we were offered another room but as we had settled in wit all luggage including dogs stuff we declined as the owner said he'd sort drains while we were out that day.

FAQs

How much does this bed and breakfast cost compared to others in South Oxfordshire District?

The average price for a rental in South Oxfordshire District is $159 per night. This rental is $87 less expensive than the average.

Is parking included with this bed and breakfast?

Yes, parking is listed as an amenity at The Talkhouse. For more information, we encourage you to contact the property about where to park.

Is there a pool at this bed and breakfast?

We didn’t find pool listed as an amenity for this bed and breakfast. It may be worth double checking if a pool is important for your stay.

Is The Talkhouse pet friendly?

Yes! This bed and breakfast is pet-friendly. For more information, we recommend contacting the booking provider about animal policies.

What amenities are available at The Talkhouse?

We found 6 amenities for this rental. This includes pets allowed, internet / wifi, parking, balcony or patio, and tv.

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The Talkhouse

Bed and Breakfast in South Oxfordshire District

Reasons to book

About this bed and breakfast

Amenities

Map of South Oxfordshire District

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

Double Room with Private Bathroom

Small Double Room

The Talkhouse

Bed and Breakfast in South Oxfordshire District

Reasons to book

About this bed and breakfast

Amenities

Map of South Oxfordshire District

Nearby attractions

Available Rooms

Double Room with Private Bathroom

Small Double Room

Ratings and reviews

FAQs

How much does this bed and breakfast cost compared to others in South Oxfordshire District?

Is parking included with this bed and breakfast?

Is there a pool at this bed and breakfast?

Is The Talkhouse pet friendly?

What amenities are available at The Talkhouse?

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