Suite S.01 Valley wing · The old dairy
The Vale Suite.
At a glance
The particulars.
- Floor
- 64 m², ground floor, stone underfoot
- Sleeps
- Two, plus a third bed for a child by the window
- Terrace
- 18 m² facing the river bend — the estate’s last light
- Bath
- Soaking tub & rain shower, both with the view
- Bed
- Emperor, estate linen, wool from our own difficult sheep
- Rate
- From €480 a night, breakfast & aperitivo included
The room the river chose
For a century and a half this was the dairy — the coolest room on the estate, which is why the milk lived here and why, in August, you will want to.
The restoration kept the vaulted ceiling and the worn threshold stone, and added exactly four luxuries: a bed you will write home about, a tub with a view it doesn’t deserve, a fireplace for the shoulder seasons, and eighteen square metres of terrace angled at the river bend.
At around eight in the evening — later in June, earlier in October — the valley funnels the sunset straight up the terrace. The house calls it the Vale hour. Reserve dinner for 19h30 and you will still make both.
In the room
Small mercies.
The fireplace
Laid every afternoon from October. One match required; smugness included.
The honesty bar
Estate wine, local gin, good glasses. Mark the ledger; we believe you.
Terrace breakfast
Hang the wooden bird on the door and breakfast arrives with the light.
The tub
Deep enough to read in, angled at the valley. Towels warm from the line.
Library picks
Six books chosen for the room each season by whoever loved them most.
True dark
Shutters that shut. No standby lights. The kind of sleep you forgot existed.
“We watched the Vale hour from the tub with glasses of the estate red, and I understood, finally, what all the other hotels were for: contrast.”
