Shute Farm

Shute Farm is a stone farmhouse near Kingsbridge, run as a bed and breakfast by the owners, set behind a garden of colourful flowers with a picnic table for guests.

A garden farmhouse with a small fireplace

One room has a floral bedspread, a window and a small fireplace with a television, a quiet, traditional finish rather than a modern one, the kind of room that feels more like staying with family than checking into a hotel. The farmhouse itself sits behind a lawn and a greenhouse, a mossy stone wall with a small stream running through the garden alongside beds of pink and purple petunias, the kind of detail that makes the garden as much a draw as the rooms, and one worth a slow look around before heading out for the day.

Breakfast and a rural setting

Breakfast is included, and the farm's garden setting makes it a quiet base rather than a town-centre one, with parking on site, wifi throughout and a television in the room, the flowerbeds and stream giving the garden a lived-in, well-tended feel rather than a manicured one.

A quiet stay near the coast

Shute Farm suits guests wanting a traditional bed and breakfast in the countryside rather than a self-catering property, with Thurlestone the nearest coastal town and Kingsbridge close by for shops and a wider choice of places to eat, the farmhouse itself offering a slower, more personal pace than a self-catering booking further along the coast.