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THE PIG hotels

Kitchen gardens set the menu, with nearby farms filling the gaps at informal country houses.

THE PIG makes the kitchen garden the starting point for a country-house stay, with restaurants, comfortable rooms, and a menu drawn mainly from within twenty-five miles. Founded in the New Forest in 2011 by Robin and Judy Hutson, the collection keeps the atmosphere informal, with mismatched crockery, wood-burning stoves, and gardens that give each house its own rhythm.

8 THE PIG hotels in 1 country on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

• Owned by Home Grown Hotels
• Worldwide: Nine operating hotels plus one standalone pub across the south of England as of 2026 (Brockenhurst, in the Wall, near Bath, on the Beach, at Combe, at Harlyn Bay, at Bridge Place, in the South Downs, and in the Cotswolds, plus The Village Pub), with two further hotels — on the Farm and at Groombridge — in a stalled planning pipeline; the atlas covers eight of the nine hotels
• On the atlas: 1 High Luxury, 5 Core Luxury, 2 Accessible Luxury

History

Robin Hutson’s interest in a neglected New Forest kitchen garden helped give THE PIG its purpose. Later houses followed the same instinct, choosing interesting buildings and gardens for a relaxed restaurant-led stay. New ownership and the Hutsons’ retirement changed the management chapter while the garden and regional menu remained central.

Timeline

• 2010 — Robin Hutson, fresh from selling Hotel du Vin and later chairing Lime Wood, walks into the "rather unloved" kitchen garden of a hotel outside Brockenhurst in the New Forest, the moment THE PIG's founder credits as the brand's true origin.
• 2011 — THE PIG opens in Brockenhurst, the first of the litter, a converted Georgian building with 32 bedrooms split between the main house and stable-yard outbuildings named the Pig Hut and Hen House; the walled Kitchen Garden and "25-mile menu" ethos are established from day one.
• 2012 — THE PIG-in the wall opens in September in Southampton, the smallest of the litter at just 12 rooms, tucked into the city's medieval walls, trading a full restaurant for relaxed deli-style dining.
• 2013 — Home Grown Hotels acquires Hunstrete House, a Georgian manor near Bath, from Andrew Davis, founder of the collapsed Von Essen group, for GBP 5 million.
• 2014 — THE PIG near Bath opens after a GBP 3 million renovation of Hunstrete House, becoming the third PIG; THE PIG on the Beach opens the same year in a Gothic-gabled Manor House overlooking Studland Bay, Dorset.
• 2016 — THE PIG at Combe opens in July in a Grade I-listed Elizabethan manor in Devon's Otter Valley, a site with a manor house history stretching back roughly a thousand years, first run as a hotel from 1968.
• 2019 — THE PIG at Bridge Place opens 30 April in a 1638 Jacobean manor near Canterbury that spent the 1960s as a rock-and-roll nightclub hosting Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Kinks, and the Yardbirds.
• 2020 — THE PIG at Harlyn Bay opens in a 15th-century Cornish manor near Padstow, becoming the seventh PIG.
• 2021 — THE PIG in the South Downs opens in September near Arundel, West Sussex, introducing the group's first on-site vineyard (roughly 4,000 vines).
• 2022 — KSL Capital Partners acquires the parent company of THE PIG hotels in partnership with Hutson, with an explicit stated aim to add further PIG hotels via acquisition and development.
• 2024 — THE PIG in the Cotswolds opens in summer in Barnsley House, the Grade II*-listed manor famed for plantswoman Rosemary Verey's Arts-and-Crafts gardens, becoming the ninth PIG; The Village Pub opens in June, the group's first standalone pub; founders Robin and Judy Hutson retire from day-to-day involvement at year-end, having grown the collection to ten sites (nine hotels plus the pub) and roughly GBP 60 million in turnover.
• 2025 — Kevin Styles becomes CEO after a period as non-executive director; Home Grown Hotels' turnover climbs back above GBP 50 million; THE PIG hotels are collectively valued at GBP 138.4 million in early reporting, with two further hotels, on the Farm and at Groombridge, held up in complex planning processes.

The houses to know

1. THE PIG on the Beach, Studland, United Kingdom — A Gothic-gabled Manor House above Studland Bay and Old Harry Rocks.
2. THE PIG at Bridge Place, Canterbury, United Kingdom — A Jacobean manor that spent the 1960s hosting Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd before becoming the sixth PIG.
3. THE PIG at Harlyn Bay, Padstow, United Kingdom — A 15th-century Cornish manor a short walk from the beach.
4. THE PIG in the South Downs, Arundel, United Kingdom — The newest PIG at the time of opening, and the first with its own vineyard.
5. THE PIG-in the Cotswolds, Cirencester, United Kingdom — The ninth PIG occupies the garden manor associated with Rosemary Verey.
6. THE PIG, Brockenhurst, Brockenhurst, United Kingdom — The original PIG turns a Georgian hunting lodge and kitchen garden into a relaxed New Forest stay.
7. THE PIG at Combe, Honiton, United Kingdom — A Grade I-listed Elizabethan manor with roots back nearly a thousand years, set on a 3,500-acre estate.
8. THE PIG near Bath, Hunstrete, United Kingdom — A honey-stone Georgian manor with a deer park, reborn after its former owner's group collapsed.

Newest openings

• THE PIG in the Cotswolds — Cirencester, Gloucestershire, England — opened summer 2024 — occupies Barnsley House, a Grade II*-listed manor built around 1697 famed for the Arts-and-Crafts gardens created by plantswoman Rosemary Verey, who lived there from 1951 and earned the RHS Victoria Medal of Honour in 1999 for them; the ninth PIG, with 18 rooms and interiors by Judy Hutson.
• The Village Pub — England — opened June 2024 — the group's first standalone pub, not a hotel, extending the Home Grown Hotels portfolio beyond the PIG format for the first time.

Opening next

• THE PIG on the Farm — Stratford-upon-Avon, England — originally slated for December 2024, now revised to summer 2027 — the group's 10th hotel, converting a mid-16th-century listed stone-built farmhouse; delayed by planning complexities.
• THE PIG at Groombridge — near Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England — planning ongoing, opening date not yet confirmed — a moated manor house built in 1662 by architect Philip Packer with the help of his friend Christopher Wren; plans include more than 40 bedrooms; stalled, like the Farm project, by complex planning processes.

Every THE PIG hotel on the atlas

United Kingdom

• THE PIG on the Beach — Studland · High Luxury
• THE PIG at Bridge Place — Canterbury · Core Luxury
• THE PIG at Harlyn Bay — Padstow · Core Luxury
• THE PIG in the South Downs — Arundel · Core Luxury
• THE PIG-in the Cotswolds — Cirencester · Core Luxury
• THE PIG, Brockenhurst — Brockenhurst · Core Luxury
• THE PIG at Combe — Honiton · Accessible Luxury
• THE PIG near Bath — Hunstrete · Accessible Luxury

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