Looking at many of the reviews,I gave the place a chance.
Yes the place is a little tired but the character is there to be seen and the staff are working very hard to be friendly and helpful.
The food altho a slightly limited menu is excellent and very enjoyable, The fact I could enjoy my meal in front of a roaring wood fire just made my night and I went for a very comfortable nights sleep.
All in all I think people should give the place a chance and make some allowances for a very old lady of a building.

My partner arranged a surprise weekend away for my 40th birthday and i sincerely wish she had saved the money for a night out down the local takeaway!
After booking in on Friday evening and being shown to a dirty smelly room in the main hotel, we both ate chicken and chips in the bar area. Within the hour we both realised it was the worst choice we could have made as we rushed to the toilet.
We had planned to stay on the Saturday but after a horrible night in this shambles of a hotel we decided to leave first thing on Saturday morning.
We tried to discuss our dissatisfaction with the manager zoe? (she REFUSED to give her name) and her attitude was absolutely appalling. She swore at us and told us we would have to pay for the two nights stay or she would take the money off our credit cards. We did not know our legal right and felt it best to pay up and get away from the place.
Please take our advice and STAY AWAY from this tip if you want to keep healthy and not spend your Friday night in the toilet...

Calling in at the Scole Inn recently I was disappointed beyond words at the what we experienced . No one at the bar , one girl at reception but on her mobile - the whole place lacked atmosphere which is hardly surprsing given the lack of customer care. Years ago it was THE pace to be but now ..................So sad !

The hotel was booked for me by our business travel company, upon driving up to the Scole Inn, it looks spectacular, this is where it stops. As a business visit, i needed wi-fi, which it says it has. Upon arriving i asked if it had wi-fi and was told no, the receptionist told me that breakfast was held in the restaurant, i then asked what time it opened in the evening, only to be told it was not open and that food was only served in the bar. I was told that my room was out in the annex Room 23, and to go through the arch, well it took me a good 10 mins to find my room as it was not lit had no indication where it was. The room was well not good, the carpets where filthy and stained, the bed was like sleeping on a lump of concrete and the décor was out of the 16th century. Break fast the next morning was no better, you expect to get local produce, however the fried egg was hard, the bacon and sausage were basic "Walls type" produce. In all one of the worst places i have stayed in.