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The Ferry House
Sheerness, Kent
On a remote corner of the Isle of Sheppey, this former inn on the Swale Estuary is a birdwatchers' paradise, with smart bedrooms and a waterside restaurant serving highly inventive dishes of locally farmed and foraged ingredients, with produce from the dynamic kitchen garden.
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Follow a four-mile rural road to a birdwatcher’s paradise and this 16th-century inn beside the Swale estuary on Harty island, linked by causeway to Sheppey. Owned since 2000 by an enterprising farming family, the pub has evolved into an extraordinary B&B, wedding venue and rustic restaurant. Bedrooms range from a small twin/double in the main house to spacious Coach House rooms that are 'large, comfortable, functional, classy', with maybe a four-poster, a separate lounge, a spa bath. In the beamed bar or on the waterside terrace, menus feature locally farmed fare and produce from the prolific kitchen garden, in original and 'out-of-this-world' dishes such as pheasant Wellington, duck and sage farce, beetroot, game jus. Vegans, give three days’ notice; you’ll be in clover. (Jade Butler)
Hotel Details
Address
Harty Ferry Rd, Harty, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 4BQ, England
Telephone
01795 510214
Bedroom
11. 6 in Coach House suitable for wheelchair user. Self-catering cottages.
Openings
all year except Christmas to New Year.
Background Music
relaxed acoustic in bar, restaurant and on terrace.
Children
all ages welcomed, extra bed £25. Children's menu.
Dogs
max 2 by arrangement in 4 Coach House bedrooms (£30 per stay, dog-friendly menu, bed, bowl, ball, treats), and restaurant, on lead in grounds.
Credit Cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
B&B doubles from £75. À la carte £37.50/£42.50 (2/3 courses).
Facilities
bar, restaurant, lounge, treatment rooms, in-room TV, vegan menu (at 72 hours' notice), civil wedding licence, wedding gardens and barn, meeting rooms, conference facilities, 1½ acre kitchen garden, car park, suitable for wheelchair.
