The Hotel
Silk, then law, then guests
The deeds start in 1761 with a silk merchant called Vedel, which is the first year the house is taxed as a dwelling, having been a plot before. The courtyard, the vault and the carriage door are all from that build; the top floor was added about 1830 when the roof was raised.
From 1908 to 1998 it was a notary's practice, and the ground-floor rooms that are now bedrooms were the file rooms. Three of them still have the iron shutters that were fitted to protect paper from fire.
The conversion to a hotel ran from 2006 to 2009. The courtyard was repaved with the original stone relaid in the original pattern, which took four months and is the single most expensive thing in the building.
Four and a bit metres at the crown
A single barrel vault in cut stone, 4.2 metres at the crown, with no plaster on it and no intention of putting any there. It was built as a stable, held wine from the 1880s, and was a garage from 1951 until the conversion.
The stone is the local limestone that everything here is made of, including the arena, which is six minutes away and a thousand years older.
Five things worth knowing
- Breakfast is in the courtyard from seven to ten, or in the hall when it rains, which it does here about twelve days a year.
- The pool is unheated and closes at ten. It is eight metres long, so it suits cooling off better than swimming lengths.
- Children are welcome everywhere except the vaulted room, at any hour.
- The carriage door is shut at midnight and opened by the night porter.
- Rooms are held on a name and a telephone number; nothing is paid through this website.