The Angel Hotel

What The Angel Hotel does

The Angel Hotel is a privately owned 12-bedroom Bed & Breakfast operating from a Grade II listed 18th Century former Coaching Inn on North Street in Bourne, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom. The property, purchased and refurbished by proprietor Carol Schofield in 2013 (originally known as The Nags Head), offers individually designed en-suite rooms across five categories (Executive King, Superior King, Classic Double, Family and Twin), with all rooms accessible via stairs only and no on-site parking. Beyond accommodation, the hotel runs the on-site Beanbag Coffee Shop (open Monday to Saturday) serving breakfast, light lunches, afternoon tea and stonebaked pizzas, and operates the Coach House, a function room for up to 100 guests hosting weddings, conferences, private celebrations and wakes.

The business is run on standard hospitality booking and property management systems (including a Guestline direct booking engine), with no proprietary technology and no disclosed AI/ML capability. The revenue model is a mix of per-night accommodation, per-cover F&B (e.g., afternoon tea at £15/person, finger buffets from £8.95/head), per-event venue hire and catering, and per-delegate conference rates; room pricing is quote-based and not publicly disclosed. Distribution is omnichannel at small scale: direct website booking, phone, walk-ins, Booking.com and TripAdvisor listings, plus Facebook and an email newsletter for marketing.

The customer base spans individual leisure and business travellers, wedding couples and families, local and regional corporates using the conference facilities, and Bourne-area residents booking private celebrations and themed events (e.g., Psychic Faires, Halloween and Christmas parties). Operating headcount is 55, which is disproportionately high relative to the 12-room inventory and reflects the F&B, events and coffee shop operations rather than scale of lodging capacity. The Angel Hotel is privately held with no parent company, no external funding and no subsidiaries.

Name

The Angel Hotel

Legal name

The Angel Hotel Bed & Breakfast

Website

https://theangelhotelbourne.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

The Angel Hotel is a privately owned 12-bedroom Bed & Breakfast in a Grade II listed 18th Century building in Bourne, Lincolnshire, serving leisure and business travellers, wedding parties and corporate conference clients with on-site dining and venue hire.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Bed & Breakfast / Boutique Hotel Hospitality

NAICS

Bed-and-Breakfast Inns (721191), Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (72111), Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (721110)

SIC

Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000), Hotels & Motels (7011)

akta.pro primary industry

Private House Hotels & Small Luxury Inns (THAGADAL)

Keywords

• Bed and breakfast
• Hotel accommodation
• Wedding venue
• Conference venue
• Function room hire

Headquarters

HQ city

Bourne

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Hotel Accommodations: Bed and breakfast hotel with 12 individually designed en-suite rooms including executive king, superior king, family rooms, twin rooms, and classic double rooms. Revenue generated from overnight stays with breakfast included.
2. Beanbag Coffee Shop: On-site coffee shop open Monday to Saturday serving hot and cold food, light lunches, cakes, drinks, afternoon tea, and stonebaked pizzas. Operates 9am-4pm with last food orders at 3pm.
3. Coach House Venue Hire: Function room (Coach House) available for private hire for weddings, conferences, celebrations, wakes, and private events. Accommodates up to 100 guests with fully operational bar and kitchen facilities.
4. Event Catering and Parties: Catering services for events including afternoon teas (£15 per person), finger buffets (from £8.95 per head), Christmas parties, kids' parties, and celebration cakes made to order.
5. Conference and Meeting Services: Conference and meeting venue hire with delegate rates inclusive of Wi-Fi, tea/coffee/water, fresh fruit, and optional sit-down breakfast or lunch. Includes use of 82-inch screen and flipcharts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Angel Hotel is a heritage Bed & Breakfast operating 12 individually designed en-suite bedrooms across five categories (Executive King Suite, Superior King, Classic Double, Family Room, Twin Room) in a Grade II listed 18th-century Coaching Inn in Bourne, Lincolnshire. The property also offers the Beanbag Coffee Shop, the Coach House function room for weddings, corporate conferences, and private celebrations, plus ancillary hospitality products including afternoon tea and bespoke celebration cakes.

Product overview

The Angel Hotel is a single-property Bed & Breakfast hotel operating as a unified offering rather than a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core product portfolio consists of 12 individually designed en-suite accommodation rooms (Executive King, Superior King, Classic Double, Family, and Twin room types) supported by an on-site Beanbag Coffee Shop serving breakfast, lunch, and afternoon tea. Event facilities include the Coach House function room (capacity 100) which hosts conferences, weddings, celebrations, private hires, and wakes. Additional services encompass catering options, celebration cakes, and afternoon tea packages. The property is a Grade II listed 18th-century former Coaching Inn in Bourne, Lincolnshire.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Beanbag Coffee Shop: On-site coffee shop open Monday to Saturday serving hot and cold food, light lunches, cakes, drinks and afternoon tea.

Products and services

• Hotel Accommodation
• Beanbag Coffee Shop
• Coach House Function Room Hire
• Conference and Meeting Packages
• Wedding Packages
• Private Celebration and Kids Party Packages
• Bespoke Celebration Cakes
• Afternoon Tea Service

Quantifiable outcome

• 9.6/10 average guest rating on Booking.com for comfort, cleanliness, location, and staff friendliness
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Macdonald Hotels & Resorts: Large UK hotel and resort operator covering rural and town properties with weddings, conferences, and F&B. Represents the scaled incumbent playing in overlapping event-hotel segments against independent operators like The Angel Hotel.
• Hand Picked Hotels: Collection of small luxury country-house and boutique hotels across the UK. Overlaps with The Angel Hotel on individually designed bedrooms, weddings, conferences, and historic properties, though operates a portfolio model with larger marketing and distribution scale.
• Bespoke Hotels: Independent UK hotel collection offering small historic and boutique properties with weddings, events, and F&B. Operates a wider portfolio across the UK but competes in the same small-luxury historic-hotel niche as The Angel Hotel.

Direct peers

• The Olde Bell Inn: Historic coaching inn in Berkshire operating as a small luxury hotel with weddings, conferences, and restaurant F&B. Direct functional peer on listed coaching-inn DNA, event-led revenue mix, and boutique bedroom count.
• Hambleton Hall: Country-house hotel and restaurant near Oakham in the East Midlands, very close to Bourne. Comparable as a small luxury UK hotel with individually designed rooms, fine-dining F&B, and a wedding/events business built around a historic listed property and owner-led reputation.
• The Samling Hotel: Boutique luxury hotel in the Lake District with individually styled rooms, fine dining, weddings, and event hosting. Provides a comparable small-luxury listed-property hospitality model with strong owner-management ethos.
• Bel & The Dragon: UK boutique coaching-inn and country-house hotel brand combining small individually designed bedrooms with high-end dining, weddings, and event hire. Conceptually comparable to The Angel Hotel's 18th-century coaching-inn positioning.
• The Talbot Hotel (Oundle): Independent small-town hotel in Oundle (about 20 miles from Bourne) offering rooms, weddings, conferences, and on-site food and drink. Closest geographic direct peer with a similar B&B-plus-events revenue model in a Lincolnshire/Cambridgeshire market town.
• Maison Talbooth: Small country house hotel in Essex offering individually designed suites, on-site dining, weddings, and event hire. Comparable to The Angel Hotel on size, owner-led service ethos, and historic-property differentiation.

Emerging players

• Soho House: Membership-driven boutique hospitality brand operating hotels, events, and F&B venues globally. Adjacent reference point on owner-led hospitality, weddings/events, and boutique-property positioning, although it competes upstream in segment rather than the small-town B&B niche.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/The-Angel-Hotel-1038375099680794
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/the-angel-hotel

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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