Very friendly welcome and service all round; rooms in the main house are newly refurbished and spotlessly clean, with flat screen TV, free wifi, the works. Bathroom quite posh, and good quality furnishings all round. Interior of the public rooms is a little dated, but very traditional British guest house. Breakfast from a serve-yourself buffet with freshly-cooked egg is absolutely fine; again, very good service. All in all, for £35 for a single room, it's great value. Only downsides for me were a hard bed, hot room without the window open (and it's quite noisy from the road, so keeping the window open isn't ideal) and very thin walls (I could hear next door quite clearly!). However these were not major downsides, and I'd stay again if in the Stalybridge area.

We had booked a double room in the main house in the spring of this year. I specifically requested not to be put in the annex as I had read the rooms were cold and damp. We arrived and were shown to a room in the annex which we declined. As all but one room was taken in the main house we were shown a small twin room and when I pulled down the sheets they were filled with hair and dirty spots. We immediately left the property having been there all of 25 minutes at most. Even though they did not provide the room as requsted months ago and acknowledged the hair in the bed they charged us for the night. We have since learned this property caters to single young people working construction in the area and not travellers which I wish I had known in advance. The price per room was about 55 pounds (very reasonable if it had of been clean) but we moved to the Village Hyde hotel to a lovely room for only 10 pounds more which was an absolute bargain compare to this property.