Types of accommodation

Inns and pubs with rooms

Rooms above or beside a pub, often in an old coaching inn. What to expect, what to check, and 118 examples from our region guides. We hold no prices: check each property’s own site.

Facts last checked 1 November 2026. Britlens is independent: see our editorial policy.

The Old Man of Coniston and Coniston Water seen from Brantwood
Coniston & Hawkshead: 6 examples of inns and pubs with rooms in our guidePhoto: Martin Jeffries, CC BY-SA 2.0
Lynmouth harbour and village below the wooded cliffs of the Exmoor coast
Exmoor & Lynmouth: 5 examples of inns and pubs with rooms in our guidePhoto: Dietmar Rabich, CC BY-SA 4.0
Burford High Street running down the hill towards the River Windrush
Burford: 5 examples of inns and pubs with rooms in our guidePhoto: bongo vongo, CC BY-SA 2.0

Photos show the areas, not the properties: we use no hotel or stock photos.

What to expect

  • Many pubs, especially in scenic places, have rooms. Older ones are often called coaching inns and are frequently historic buildings hundreds of years old.[1]

Before you book

  • Rooms over a bar can hear the pub: ask for a quieter room if that matters.
  • Check whether parking is included.

See also: Our pubs guide, Tipping and pub etiquette.

Examples in our region guides

118 places in 30 regions whose type in our data matches. Types and details come from OpenStreetMap or the property’s own site;[2] they are examples, not recommendations, and we have not inspected them.

The Cotswolds (18)

The Lake District (17)

Devon (15)

The Jurassic Coast (8)

The Peak District (8)

Norfolk and the Broads (7)

Cornwall (5)

Orkney (4)

Anglesey (3)

North Coast 500 (3)

Salisbury & Stonehenge (3)

The Outer Hebrides (3)

Yorkshire (3)

Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire (2)

Birmingham (2)

St Andrews and Fife (2)

Windsor (2)

Cardiff (1)

Gloucester (1)

Islay and Jura (1)

Isle of Arran (1)

Isles of Scilly (1)

Lindisfarne (Holy Island) (1)

Lundy (1)

Northern Ireland (1)

Oxford (1)

Portsmouth and Southampton (1)

Shrewsbury (1)

Worcester (1)

York (1)

Other types

Sources

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  1. Accommodation options (opens in new tab), VisitBritain, read 1 November 2026
  2. Copyright and licence (opens in new tab), OpenStreetMap, read 1 November 2026