I wonder if this was a coaching inn back in the day as it's on the way into the city, but it's just outside the walls and on the end of Stane St, the Roman connection to the world eastwards.So it's an old rambling inn with many rooms in nooks and crannies. Our room was adequate, a twin as I booked late.It has a massive dining room downstairs to feed everyone, which it does in some style. We tasted the bangers and mash, with local sausages. The problem came in the morning when I wanted to leave early and hadn't appreciated that I needed to leave by the fire exit. Luckily someone else was going before breakfast and was in the same predicament. Between us we found the fire exit and noted how difficult it would have been to find this in a panic situation. We got to the room called Chilgrove in a short cul de sac instead of Arundel which was next to the exit. When I asked about this later, someone said I should have had the Fire Exit map in my hand when I tried to leave, but that wasn't happening, as my OH was still in the room, sleeping in until breakfast time. That would have been unsafe for him. I wondered later about the green 'crawl lines' that some properties use.along the floor but was told that it was along the ceiling. Not much use in a smoky fire! Apart from this and being on a main road into town with single glazed windows and boy racers rushing though town, I had a really good stay.
