The West Country-based pub group will launch the sites in early 2006, starting with a modern British brasserie called Corsham House and then following it up with pub with rooms The King’s Arms, and village hotel Teffont House.
Taking inspiration from the group’s Beckford Bottle Shop in Bath but with bedrooms, Corsham House will open in February and will be located in the Wiltshire market town of Corsham on its high street. The 94-cover brasserie will also have space for eight covers at the counter, 14 bedrooms, a small courtyard to the rear of the property for al fresco dining.
In addition, there will be a Beckford Bottle Shop and Tasting Room, selling some of the team’s favourite wines from the original shop in Bath.
Corsham House will serve a wine-led menu that will feature around 20 different wines by the glass, with the option to drink wines from the shop, which will have around 100 bottles available.
This will be followed by Beckford Group’s fifth inn with rooms, The King’s Arms, which will open in March 2026 in the Wiltshire village of Monkton Farleigh, on the outskirts of Bath, having been closed for over a year. The 17th century pub will serve a menu of traditional Beckford pub food using English ingredients sourced from the local area and will have space for 50 covers inside, as well as a further 30 covers in the courtyard garden.
The group also plans to re-open the pub with six bedrooms upstairs and two further bedrooms outside of the pub.
The third opening will be Teffont House, previously known as Howard’s House, which will be the group’s first hotel. Located in the village of Teffont Evias in Wiltshire’s Nadder Valley, the building will be renovated and extended to re-open in April 2026 with 17 bedrooms upstairs and in neighbouring buildings.
Within the grounds will be a croquet court for the village team, a BBQ area, an apple orchard and a Bramley treatment cabin with sauna and wild plunge pond. Inside the hotel, will be a restaurant and bar with around 40 covers serving a menu inspired by the group’s Beckford Canteen in Bath.
“There is much doom and gloom in UK hospitality at the moment, but we are not moaning; we want to be doing more of what we and our staff do well, looking after our guests with great experiences at reasonable prices,” says Dan Brod, Beckford Group co-founder.
“It is an ambitious plan, but we are delighted to be defying the norm, crazy or not, opening three sites in three months and creating up to 100 new hospitality jobs in the process”
The Beckford Group was founded in 2009 bv Brod, Charlie Luxton and Matt Greenlees.
