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Plumber Manor is an excellent choice for travellers visiting Sturminster Newton, offering a luxury environment alongside many helpful amenities designed to enhance your stay.
Guest rooms offer amenities such as a flat screen TV, and guests can go online with free wifi offered by the hotel.
Plumber Manor features room service, to help make your stay more enjoyable. The property also boasts free breakfast. If you are driving to Plumber Manor Hotel, free parking is available.
While staying at Plumber Manor, you may want to check out Olives Et Al - HQ Deli (1.1 mi) which is a short walk away.
Sturminster Newton is also known for some great history museums, including Sturminster Newton Mill and English Heritage, Fiddleford Manor,, which are not too far from Plumber Manor Hotel.
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Plumber Manor comes highly recommended for its comfortable and spacious rooms, set within extensive gardens that add to the hotel's charm. Reviewers often laud the hotel for its immaculate cleanliness and the attentive staff who deliver a warm welcome with personal touches.
While some find the room amenities basic, many guests appreciate the overall value offered, especially highlighting the quality dining experience with its reasonable prices. The hotel's warm ambiance and historic character are frequently celebrated, contributing to a cozy and enjoyable stay.
Atmosphere
Charming
Rooms
Comfortable
Value
Reasonable
Cleanliness
Immaculate
Service
Attentive
Amenities
Satisfactory
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This is a special place: welcoming, classy, confident and polished. It still has the air of a lived-in stately home in places, such as the gallery of family portraits on the first floor.
It's a very different Dorset you see staying here. It's a long way from the madness of the coast, much as I enjoy that, and a lovely place to come back to at the end of a day on the beach. The roads are quiet and there's some stunning scenery to drive through between Dorchester and Sturminster Newton. In a 10-minute drive from the hotel you have the attractive town, rural cafes, good pubs. Within 30 minutes are a couple of stately homes, ruined castles, the Cerne Giant. It's a great base.
Our room in the house was elegant. The beds are soft, but blissfully comfortable. The shower is a great blast of hot water. The curtains are thick. We had a lovely view over the gardens. Go to bed early and you might hear a bit of chatter from the tables outside, but the hotel becomes completely silent from about 11pm.
Dining was a great experience. The food was varied and memorably good, but it's the wines that made every meal so pleasurable. We mainly had French whites, which were really well chosen and well priced. We ended up dining in the hotel 4 nights out of 5 and regretted the one night we went out. The atmosphere is quite formal (a lot of the guests dress for dinner), but it's not stuffy or exclusive and there's a lovely chatter in the dining rooms.
The breakfast is a choice of English breakfast or porridge, both freshly cooked to order and delicious.
My sister's gluten intolerance was catered for with no fuss at dinner and breakfast (although she'd have loved a gluten free sausage in the morning).
One slight frustration was the wifi and it's too remote a location for 4G, so that's not an option. Even browsing for National Trust opening times was unreliable, so do your planning before you leave home. It didn't spoil the experience: it didn't feel like a place where you should spend too much time staring at your phone.
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Date of stay: August 2020
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We stayed at Plumber Manor for two nights to celebrate my BIG birthday. We looked long and hard to find somewhere special in the countryside which wouldn't have a wedding vying for their attention. We struck lucky with our choice!
We chose one of their Superior rooms (Room 1) in the house and whilst it was very comfortable with views across the back garden it was not that large - i.e. no room for a sofa or table. The shower room appeared to be very recently refurbished with very stylish marble tiles and 'old fashioned' style sanitary ware.
We enjoyed our G&Ts in front of a real log fire in the bar while we chose our evening meal. On both nights dining was a real treat with plenty of choice; 8 starters and 7 main dishes. With sufficient on the plate, beautifully cooked and presented. My husband has awkward dietary needs but these were perfectly catered for without any fuss. Breakfast was whatever you fancied - and very nicely done.
It was so nice to find the owners were very 'hands on' and we enjoyed our chats with them and took up some of their suggestions on places to visit in the locality.
I would love to visit again - but will need to wait for another special occasion.
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Date of stay: October 2019
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We stayed 3 nights at Plummer Manor. The place was very well run, like a clockwork. The restaurant does excellent food and seems to be booked out every night. The ground and garden are beautifully kept. Room decors are quite dated but facilities are good, good shower and bath. They gave large size water bottles (still and sparkling) for the room everyday. Breakfast finished at 9:30am which can be a challenge if you want to sleep in, Room rates were a little dear for what it was though, perhaps due to Easter Break. A good base to explore Dorset. We enjoyed our trip.
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Date of stay: May 2022Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This was our third overnight stay at Plumber Manor and probably our 8th meal there in about 20 years. It has always been special, the rooms are gorgeous and we've always been given a lovely welcome and made to feel great. On our last visit we both had a smoked trout and salmon starter and beef wellington. The beef was simply the best I've ever tasted. When ever the desert trolley arrives you look upon it in awe and last night didn't disappoint. Our room (room 6 above the lounge) was large, very comfortable and spotless. We use Plumber Manor for our special occaisions, although the prices are reasonable enough for us to go more often. I can't think of a better place in Dorset for that special meal. We'll keep going back.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Room Tip:I've only stayed in the main building in 3 different rooms (there are only 6) and all were...
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We stayed here for our wedding with the reception in the grounds of the hotel. The hotel setting is magnificent, beautiful lawns and gardens looking their best in the summer - lots of lovely peaceful corners.
Staff including the owner were absolutely delightful and went out of their way to be helpful (including coordinating our friends and family taking all of the hotel rooms for a day or two). This even extended to the owner helping to start the wedding car when the battery had gone flat!
Rooms are traditional, but very comfortable - we preferred the rooms in the main house which we felt had more character, but the courtyard rooms are larger and have been recently renovated to a very high standard.
We ate at the hotel on a Thursday evening, the food was well cooked and accompanied by a very reasonable wine list. Breakfast very hearty too. A nice bar with a good selection of single malts to settle the groom’s nerves the night before.
Thank you to the whole team for making our day so special!
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Date of stay: July 2021Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Stayed at Plumber Manor for 3 nights on 21st September. We stayed in Room 6 in the main house which was spacious with a seating area and large bathroom and the room overlooked the front gardens. There are additional rooms in the Courtyard. The welcome we received from all the staff was warm and convivial, breakfast was excellent - anything you desired! We took dinner every evening, the menu has slight variations each night - all delicious. The beef carpaccio starter and fish main courses particularly good. Nice touches at the hotel, delicious canapés served with pre- dinner drinks, newspapers (no charge), tea and shortbread on the terrace (no charge). Would commend Richard and his team who run the hotel in an efficient but relaxed way. Also the flower arrangements are gorgeous! Hope to stay again in the future. Good location for exploring Dorset countryside!
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Date of stay: September 2020Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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We only live 20 minutes away (so unfortunately!) we haven't had the delight of a stay. We love dining here though.
It's the best for couples or family get together's for dinner.
Peerless service, friendly and helpful staff, always attentive.
Well organised and seamless service, even with covid restrictions, which are well managed, not spoiling the ambience or experience too much. Plenty of space for everyone.
We don't visit often enough! A rare treat always.
Great choice of food prepared with ingenuity fresh local and regional produce and one of the most extensive wine lists you'll find ( leave room for the sweet trolley!!).
The grounds are also worth a walk around, with mature trees and fine lawns.
We'll be back soon!
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Date of stay: July 2020
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An absolute gem. Stay at an authentic manor house set in beautiful tranquil grounds. A combination of a classy historic hotel and being a guest at someone’s home. It’s welcoming and informal, whilst being slick and professional in an effortless way. The restaurant is excellent and exceptional value on its own, which explains its popularity with both guest and locals.
On arrival, we were welcomed by the black Labrador who wanders over to meet you wagging his tail. After being shown our room, some tea and melt in the mouth fruitcake on the terrace gets you off to a relaxed pace. G&T overlooking the garden, whilst perusing the dinner menu eating canapes.
Forget Relais and Chateaux this is the real thing, unfussy and tasteful. We will definitely return.
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Date of stay: July 2022
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I don't normally go into as much detail , but just a few days before coming to Plumber Manor , I had a quick look to see if there had been any reviews since opening up again. At the top was the one star review , see just below. I thought for a moment what will it be like, however I think they must have been to a different hotel. Yes we were in one of the courtyard rooms whose bathrooms had not been refurbished, but that was as far as the similarity went. The bathroom was spotless, yes there was Carex antibacterial soap, but there was also a complete selection of Moulton Brown soaps , shampoos etc. The bath towels were huge and soft, and as a six footer I could lay back in the bath. An excellent power shower. The room itself was extremely spacious recently decorated and new carpet, two comfortable armchairs, a window seat , a proper dressing table for my wife to get ready.
However the room doesn't make a hotel , it is the people, everyone including Richard the owner , the waiting and cleaning staff couldn't be friendlier or do enough. The food was excellent a wide choice that changed over the course of the week . So was the wine list, which was extensive and very reasonable. The house champagne was nice , the Dorset English bubbly from down the road was even nicer. The selection of red was very good , one from our favourite vinyard in South Africa. , Richard hen he saw I also liked Italian red introduced me to some new wines .
If you want the best of good English hospitality come here.
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Date of stay: June 2021
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We spent the last three nights of a week's stay in Dorset in this splendid manor house hotel tucked away in the countryside just outside the pretty village of Sturminster Newton. It's family owned (by the same family for over 400 years) so that service is personal yet unobtrusive. Host Richard is country gent charm personified, exudes bonhomie and works endlessly to make everyone feel totally at home. He has a team of well trained staff to whom nothing seems too much trouble.
Our room in the main house was traditional and comfortable with a spacious bathroom huge bath and first rate walk-in shower.
Food is well cooked and again largely traditional. We had some terrific beef and venison for example in delicious sauces.
We loved the extensive gardens, lawns, streams and wild corners begging to be explored and producing an abundance of butterflies during our stay.
All in all this is gracious country living in a beautiful part of England. It was our first visit but won't be our last.
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Date of stay: September 2021
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Room Tip:Rooms in the main house have the best garden views
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There are more places to choose from in the Sturminster Newton area.
PRICE RANGE
£194 - £252 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
plumber manor hotel sturminster newton, plumber manor sturminster newton
LOCATION
United KingdomEnglandDorsetSturminster Newton
NUMBER OF ROOMS
16
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