I visit lots of B & Bs and hotels I don't like writing critical reviews, It's only if I think that others need warning that I write a negative review. Unfortunately I think that the Parsonage falls into that category.
I've read the positive reviews waxing lyrical about the place and think that I must have stayed somewhere else.
POSITIVE, it's a really impressive building with great views, the rooms seem clean.
NEUTRAL - breakfast was well cooked but pretty average with quite small portion of the full English. The hosts were pleasant but didn’t interact particularly
NEGATIVE
Finding the place, it's virtually impossible to find with a satnav. In their email telling you that they only receive guests between 4pm and 8pm, the hosts could have given directions
The driveway... a cart track, I was concerned about damaging my car
The smell - the place smelt damp, my bedroom particularly so, I used a tin of lynx to try to get rid of the smell
A total lack of fire evacuation instructions and of smoke alarms...there are at least three lettable rooms, this is a big house and is run as a business. My room had a small vestibule type thing with a fire extinguisher in it, no instructions and the light didn’t work
The cable to one of the bedside lamps had been spliced together and allegedly PAT tested in 2005...a fire waiting to happen
The Wifi didn't work
No locks on room door, I don't usually have a problem but NO bolt on bedroom or bathroom door either
I will not be returning