Restaurant
Opening Times
Breakfast:
7am - 9:30am Mon - Fri
8am - 10:30am Sat - Sun
Lunch:
12pm - 2pm daily
Afternoon Tea:
Served from 1pm - 5.30pm Monday - Friday | 1pm - 5pm Saturday & Sunday
Dinner:
*Oak Room Restaurant: A la carte dinner: 7pm - 9.30pm
The Dining Room 9pm - 9pm
Bar - Food Served 7pm to 9:30pm
Dress Code
Please note that there is a smart dress code in The Oak Room Restaurant. While they don't require a jacket and tie, they don't permit sportswear.
Disabled Access
The hotel does not have a lift.
There are limited ground floor bedrooms within the courtyard which is not in the main hotel, some of which are fully accessible. Please call our reservations team to enquire prior to booking
History of the hotel
Barnett Hill Hotel was once nothing more than a wooded hilltop, which offered impressive views across the Surrey hills. The stunning location caught the eye of Frank Cook, grandson of renowned travel agent Thomas Cook, who, in 1905, constructed the Queen Anne-style mansion as a family home.
Following his death in 1940, Cook's wife loaned the house to the British Red Cross as a convalescent hospital during WWII, and it became a rehabilitation centre for civilians injured in bombings. Four years later, Mrs Cook sold the house to the Red Cross who turned it into their National Training Centre.
In the 1970s, the British Red Cross opened the house to the public, offering independent training courses and promoting Barnett Hill as a conference venue. In 1996, the house was leased to the Chudley family, the owners of Highgate House, the UU's first conference hotel. They went on to purchase Barnett Hill in 2005 and expanded their offering to include accommodation, dining, weddings and private events.
We bought the property in October 2016 and transformed the hotel's interior, modernising our guest facilities. The Grade II listed hotel still holds many of its original features, including the summer house and tea house.
