We just hosted a conference for senior business leaders and accommodated them at the Hare & Hounds. No breakfast other than cereals available on the first day and no hot water at all the next.
Hopeless !

We stayed here for 2 nights 3/4 Nov 2006.
We were in a cottage next to the hotel which was fine, although a bit cool for my liking. the Hotel itself was very nice and the Dinner and Breakfast was excellent - although they were a bit short staffed when we stayed. The personnel were very pleasant

Spent a very comfortable night at the Hare and Hounds. The room was huge, with a stone fireplace and "antique" furniture. The gardens are lovely (we watched wood pigeons nesting from our room) and breakfast was plentiful and well prepared. We had dinner in the bar rather than the resturant - above average for pub food and excellent house wine.
The only down side is that the decor is a bit worn and the place smells a little of old carpet. A bit too much "Period Charm". All in all not cheap, but worth the price.

Spent a lovely weekend in the area. The hotel is very nice, a little pricey but its the south....we were part of a large group of people and had booked 10+ rooms, ranging from singles to full family suites. The staff were polite and friendly and the food quite nice. The only moan I have is about what I think was the head waiter or similar. In the evening he ran the bar, served dinner and then next day was there to serve breakfast, a bit like the Bates Motel!!. The problem came when we went to sit down for breakfast and we were told to sit with strangers (part of the froup but we did not know them), I explained we were meeting family and as a group of 10 we would prefer to sit together rather than be split up and sit with strangers. I was told in no uncertain terms that this was the time to get to know these people and to sit over there. This left children distraught and a dreadful breakfast sat with strangers and no converstion. Its a shame just the 1 perosn let the whole thing down and resulted in a family decision not to stay there again. At £140 a night and a 5 hour journey it would have been nice to sit with my father for breakfast!!