The Sparsholt Barn

2.0 star property

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Exterior
Superior Double Room, Ensuite (Large)
Bar (on property)
Superior Suite, Ensuite
Lobby

Reviews

9.0 out of 10

Wonderful

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant

Explore the area

Map
Watery Lane, Sparsholt, Wantage, England, OX12 9PL
  • Uffington White Horse
    4 min drive
  • Swindon Designer Outlet
    26 min drive
  • University of Oxford
    35 min drive
  • Brize Norton (BZZ-RAF Brize Norton)
    43 min drive

Room options

Standard Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Superior Twin Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

Superior Suite, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 King Bed

Superior Double Room, Ensuite (Large)

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Superior Double Room, Ensuite (Large)

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 King Bed

Standard Twin Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds

Standard Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

Classic Double Room, Ensuite

  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed

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About this property

The Sparsholt Barn

Guesthouse in Wantage with a restaurant and a bar
This smoke-free guesthouse features a restaurant, a bar/lounge, and wedding services. Free WiFi in public areas and free self parking are also provided. Housekeeping is not available.
The Sparsholt Barn offers 8 accommodations.
During your stay at The Sparsholt Barn, you'll be close to Uffington White Horse. You'll find features like free WiFi in public areas and free self parking, plus a restaurant.
  • Free WiFi and wired Internet in some public areas
  • Free self parking
  • Grab something to eat at the restaurant or stop for a drink at the bar/lounge
  • Services include wedding services
  • Just a 4-minute drive from Uffington White Horse and 5 minutes from Uffington Castle
There's a restaurant on site. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. Public spaces have free WiFi and wired Internet. Free self parking is available.

This Wantage guesthouse is smoke free.

The Sparsholt Barn has a restaurant on site.

Languages

English

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi and wired Internet

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site

Food and drink

  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar

Guest services

  • No housekeeping
  • Wedding services

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • This property does not have any lifts

More

  • Smoke-free property

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Early check-in subject to availability
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

  • No pets allowed

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.

Payment types at the property

Important information

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards
Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival.

We should mention

  • Please note that this property can refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, which include pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
  • This property welcomes guests of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ+ friendly).

Property is also known as

Star Inn Wantage
Star Wantage
Star Inn Wantage
Star Wantage
Inn The Star Inn Wantage
Wantage The Star Inn Inn
The Star Inn Wantage
Star Inn
Star
Inn The Star Inn
The Star Inn
The Sparsholt Barn Wantage
The Sparsholt Barn Guesthouse
The Sparsholt Barn Guesthouse Wantage

The Sparsholt Barn Reviews

Reviews

9.0

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 45 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 26 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 6 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 2 out of 79 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 79 reviews" "

9.4/10

Cleanliness

9.4/10

Staff & service

9.6/10

Amenities

9.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Tony

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The rooms are very nice, and the food in the pub was excellent. The only negatives were that the only breakfast available mid week was some pastries, which I must have missed on booking, and with the shower on hot, it was tepid and the bed was a little soft for me. Overall. Very good though.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

David

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Star inn is fabulous great staff great food and beautiful rooms
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Ian

Business traveller
Liked: Property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Renovation work being carried out at 6.30 in the morning Unable to provide vat receipt Emailed and asked twice
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Nigel

Stayed 1 night in May 2022

10/10 Excellent

Theresa

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Worth the drive to this out of the way village!
Lovely innkeeper. Beautiful room in converted stables. The food was fabulous…hands down the best of our trip. In fact dinner was one of the best meals I’ve had in years!
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022

10/10 Excellent

Nathalie, Canterbury

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The star inn offers an excellent service especially for visitors travelling with dogs. We were allocated a room in a barn renovation. It had a clever mix of high specs renovation and rural feel to it. The staff were very generous with their time and attention to us. We ate at the inn on our first night and the menu was top rate which included a majority of fresh locally sourced produce. I would highly recommend for anyone passing through this area. Very good value for money.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2021

8/10 Good

Paula

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice stay
Stayed 1 night in May 2021

10/10 Excellent

Jill

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2020

8/10 Good

Andy

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great service and exceptional food. Good accommodation.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Comfortable beds, great menu, friendly staff and a warm welcome
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2020

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with pets, Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly welcome, comfortable beds, lovely bathroom facilities, fabulous menu and food, great place to stay very dog friendly.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Staff & service
Restaurant has limited menus choice, although nice most options are expensive and smaller than average
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Friendly staff , nothing was too much trouble - although our room hadn’t been serviced when we got back . When we mentioned this , it was immediately rectified
Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Excellent accommodation in a lovely peaceful location good food and atmosphere highly recommended
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2019

10/10 Excellent

Christopher

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Lisa

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Romantic dog friendly inn.
Great little find. Dog friendly room and really buzzy gastric pub restaurant with fab grub!
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2019

10/10 Excellent

Gary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

michael

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Great for walking
Great hotel, good food, friendly staff and close to lots of walks.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Cute hotel tucked away in the countryside. Helpful and friendly staff. Comfortable bed. My only niggle is that the breakfast is too small, but that has more to do with my appetite than anything else! I’d stay again
Stayed 1 night in May 2018

8/10 Good

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Comfortable stop over aeay from the madding crowd
An overnight stay for business. The Star provided a warm, friendly stop over with some good ale, good food and comfortable accomodation.

10/10 Excellent

Lee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Very pleasant - would recommend
Extremely friendly and accommodating staff. Room spacious and very comfortable. Nice little touches of detail dotted around the room. Very pleasant - would recommend

10/10 Excellent

Singer, Shropshire

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
What more could you want!!
Really happy experience. Lovely place, friendly and helpful, delicious food, delightful room with very comfortable beds. Really nice little touches like butter served on mini slate plates and mini towels to dry your hands. Would strongly recommend.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Nice hotel. Friendly staff. Good food. Lovely village.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2018