THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD

What THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD does

THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD operates The Village Pub, a single-location English country inn in Barnsley, near Cirencester in the Cotswolds (GL7 5EF). The venue occupies a Grade II listed building (listed since 1952) with origins as 3 cottages converted to The Greyhound Inn in the early 1700s, later renamed The Village Inn in the 1920s and The Village Pub approximately 50 years ago. After a brief 2-year stint as The Boot, the property reopened in Summer 2024 as The Village Pub under the Homegrown Hotels group, whose sister property THE PIG-in the Cotswolds sits directly across the road.

The offering combines a traditional pub (food, bar, and events) with accommodation: 6 en-suite bedrooms above the pub and a 3-bedroom self-catering cottage (Home Farm House) two minutes away. The food menu emphasises nostalgic British pub classics with locally sourced meat from Jesse Smith butchers, and the bar serves gravity-fed local ales, craft beers, and a wine list. Recurring event programming includes Thursday Steak Night and Friday Live Music Nights (£10/ticket, scheduled through August 2026), and guests can access the Fieldhouse Spa at sister property THE PIG for £30 per person.

The business operates on a direct-to-consumer, transaction-fee model with no enterprise contracts, intermediaries, or resellers. Distribution is through the villagepub.co.uk website, thepighotel.com for room bookings, and the SevenRooms reservation platform for tables. The company is privately held under THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD with a disclosed headcount of 5, no public listing, and no venture capital or private equity investors evidenced in the source material.

Name

THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD

Legal name

THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD

Website

https://thevillagepub.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1700

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Village Pub is a Grade II listed English country inn in Barnsley, Cotswolds, operating a traditional pub with food, drink, and events alongside 6 en-suite bedrooms and a 3-bedroom cottage, under the Homegrown Hotels group.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Country Pub & Inn Hospitality

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224), Hotels (except Casino Hotels) and Motels (72111), Bed-and-Breakfast Inns (721191)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Hotels, Rooming Houses, Camps & Other Lodging Places (7000)

akta.pro primary industry

Pubs & Gastropubs (CRANACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Country Inns & Rural B&Bs (THAGAHAD)

Keywords

• Country pub hospitality
• Pub dining services
• Bed and breakfast
• Self-catering accommodation
• Event hospitality venues

Headquarters

HQ city

Barnsley, Cirencester

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Food & Drink Sales: Full restaurant service with traditional pub menu offering nostalgic classics, bar snacks, and traditional Sunday roasts. Drinks include local gravity fed ales, craft beers, wine list, spirits, and classic cocktails.
2. Accommodation: Six en-suite bedrooms offering overnight stays with full English breakfast included. Additional three-bedroom cottage (Home Farm House) available for private stays.
3. Events & Ticketing: Friday live music nights at £10 per ticket including BBQ bite. Steak Night events drive dinner covers on Thursdays.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

THE VILLAGE INN PUB COMPANY LTD operates The Village Pub, a traditional English country pub in Barnsley, Cotswolds, providing full-service pub dining, a bar with local ales/craft beers/wines, six en-suite guest bedrooms, and a separate three-bedroom self-catering cottage (Home Farm House). The business runs weekly event programming including Thursday Steak Night and Friday Live Music Nights, and shares booking infrastructure with its sister hotel THE PIG-in the Cotswolds.

Product overview

The Village Pub is a classic English country inn operating as a single unified hospitality brand with multiple service offerings: the main pub with food and drinks service (offering nostalgic pub classics, local ales, and craft beers), 6 en-suite bedrooms above the pub with breakfast included, and Home Farm House cottage (a separate 3-bedroom self-catering property nearby). The pub operates regular events including Thursday Steak Night and Friday Live Music Nights during summer. Room and table reservations are managed through the THE PIG hotel booking system and SevenRooms platform respectively.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• THE PIG-in the CotswoldscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSister hotel property across the road from The Village Pub. Shared booking platform (thepighotel.com). Village Pub guests can access THE PIG's Fieldhouse Spa for £30 per person. Cross-promotional relationship with shared brand identity under THE PIG hospitality group.
• Jesse Smith (Family Butchers)coreOthersIndependent, family-run meat supplier located just 10 minutes down the road. Provides steaks (Ribeye, Rump, Sirloin, Bavette) for weekly Steak Night events. Emphasized as local, quality provenance.
• Stroud BreweryminorOthersLocal brewery providing Tom Long ale (3.8%) on tap. Part of commitment to local suppliers and Cotswolds provenance.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• The Star at Harome: Award-winning country pub-with-rooms in North Yorkshire. Directly comparable as a destination dining pub with a small accommodation offering and a heritage building, targeting the same staycation/weekend break customer.
• The Wild Rabbit: Daylesford-owned Cotswolds country pub-with-rooms in Kingham. Directly comparable on heritage-meets-modern positioning, premium local food sourcing, and integrated accommodation, and competes for the same Cotswolds tourist customer.
• The Pointer: Independent country pub-with-rooms in Brill, Buckinghamshire. Similar single-location heritage pub model with bedrooms above and destination dining positioning targeting affluent weekend visitors.
• The Bell at Skenfrith: Historic Welsh country inn (17th-century) with restaurant and bedrooms on the River Monnow. Closely comparable on Grade II heritage building, single-site operations, food+rooms model, and rural destination positioning.
• The Hand and Flowers: Two-Michelin-star gastropub-with-rooms in Marlow run by Tom Kerridge. Comparable business model (destination food pub + small room count) and operates in the same premium UK country-pub-with-rooms category.
• The Bull at Great Totham: Essex-based historic country pub with rooms and dining. Comparable single-location heritage pub combining destination dining with overnight accommodation targeting weekend and tourist trade.

Broad incumbents

• Hall & Woodhouse: Dorset-based brewery and pub operator with a portfolio of food-led pubs including inns with rooms. Comparable on heritage pub + regional sourcing + accommodation pairing model, scaled across multiple locations rather than one.
• Peach Pubs: Multi-site operator of premium country pubs across southern England. While Village Pub is single-site, Peach demonstrates the scale-out potential and operational template for the same country-pub-with-rooms concept that Village Pub occupies at one location.
• Butcombe Pubs & Hotels: Regional pub and hotel operator (Brewery + Inns + Hotels) in the South West of England. Adjacent incumbent offering comparable food-led pub and inn accommodations in similar tourism geographies.

Regional players

• The Chequers Inn: Heritage country pub with rooms and dining in the Cotswolds / Oxfordshire region. Competes for the same short-break Cotswolds tourist trade that drives Village Pub's accommodation demand.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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