Spacious and special

Go back to school, not for chalk and talk but for an education in a place perfect for parties: food and drinks beneath soaring ceilings, flat-screen TV with friends, the hot tub and a summer swimming pool.

An education in the art of good living

Going back to school might be painful for some, but you’ll relish the chance to get together with 20 friends, hens or stags just four miles from the heritage spa town of Bath, bursting with top bars and restaurants. Spread the party across three properties, make the most of the wifi, swim in the summer pool.

Together, the School Rooms, the Coach House and the Lodge sleep up to 20 in rooms far more luxurious than in ancient days of chalk, talk and ink-blotted desks. Five-metre-high ceilings, en-suite doubles, dining for 20 and flat-screen TVs await. Cook in the kitchen or be catered for. It’s your call.

Shoot some pool before dinner, eat out on the terrace or wander into Box for pub meals or Indian, find a film on Freeview, get together for games with your phone playing music through the sound system.

Old Brook School House offers a flexible stay: configure folk how you like around the School Rooms (sleeping twelve), the Coach House (four) and the Lodge (four). However you cut it, a stay here adds up to an education in the art of good living.

Gardens, grounds and Hot Tub

Out beyond the gates, delightful Box wends its way down the main road into Bath. Inside, the pool, in use from April to 1st November, is a generous ten metres by five. Dig out the inflatables or just the deck chairs to laze languorously with a novel on the 200-square-metre pool terrace while the steaks sizzle on the barbie.

Check in, spread out and gear up for a party, celebration or getaway to remember!

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Living spaces

The grand lounge that once echoed to the chatter of schoolchildren and the shrill rebukes of the schoolmistress has become a modern classic: light, bright and welcoming, and taller than a double-decker bus.

An L-shaped sofa sits beneath the giant arched windows and heavy drapes. You can pick at nuts or fruit from the table and sip coffee or Cabernet as you dial into the flatscreen Sony TV or tap into the fast broadband. You can even play music from your phone through the sound system.

Head over to the Coach House to raid the DVD collection for a film night. Back in the School Rooms, you can break out the board games or shoot a little pool in the living room. When hunger calls, the open-plan arrangement means there’s a smooth flow from aperitif and appetiser to antipasto.

Cooking and dining

Thanks to the open-plan arrangement, you’ll segue neatly from living-room sofa to pool table to antipasto around the large dining table. Cook up a storm on the two gas ovens (one range-size), and three hobs. Or carry on with your pool or Prosecco and let our chefs take the heat.

Eat around the chunky dining table, with light flooding the room from the giant arched windows. Or head out to the terrace to the gas barbecue and table and chairs to sit in the sunshine with steaks and sausages. After dinner, maybe a dip in the pool beckons?

Head out for a ploughman’s, a summer salad or a steak-and-kidney winter warmer at The Queens Head in Box, take a stiff walk up to The Quarryman’s Arms, or grab some gastro at The Northey Arms, with extensive food menu and great wines. Or try The Birdhouse Café for salads, quiche, Portuguese custard tarts and lovely décor.

Go Indian at The Bengal Bear and take your own bottles, or try The Ivy Brasserie for relaxed yet sophisticated all-day dining, or The Methuen Arms for partridge and chips or broccoli risotto. Head to Mother and Wild in Corsham for hearty food with all the flavour and none of the pretension.

Bedrooms

Sumptuous, swish and elegant bedrooms sleep up to 20 across the three properties.

The School Rooms comes with three bedrooms. The first is an en-suite kingsize, the second a double en-suite, and the third offers twin singles along with en-suite.

In The Lodge, ideal for a couple, you’ll find a kingsize en-suite, while The Coach House comes with a double.

What people say

What people say

Absolutely loved this place. Stylish and homely all at the same time. Loads of space for everyone and the pool just topped it off. - Abbie

Skiff, punt, shop and chill

Learn about local literature at the Jane Austen Centre, skiff or punt your way down the river with the Bath Boating Station, or go underground at Wookey Hole. Grown-ups can shop and drop around gorgeous Bath, live it up at Komedia comedy club or Po Na Na nightspot, or chill the twilight hours away at Bath Thermae Spa.