The Pickled Parson Of Sedgefield

8/10

Excellent

02 Jun 2026

Eleanor

Had a two night stay in Room 1. Staff all friendly and helpful. WiFi was on the blink.so not available on our room. They said they needed to fix it. Room was spacious. Lovely bathroom but lighting in both room and bathroom could be brighter. Water hot but found controls on shower difficult to adjust. Tea making facilities all good but I brought my own herbal tea - only standard tea available. Small bottle of still and sparkling water provided.

8/10

Excellent

12 May 2026

Darren

We used the Pickled Parson as a home base for a month while visiting family. The room we had for that duration of a stay was a little small, but it was comfortable, clean and made up daily. The staff were all amazing and really made us feel at home. A very relaxed atmosphere with great breakfast options. The bar was a great option to wind down at the end of the day with a night cap.

Situated on the village green, it is a perfect place to sit out in the warmer weather with great tea shops and restaurants close by.

Would definitely stay again in the future.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

27 Apr 2026

Mark

Couldn’t have asked for anything more - room was really nice, staff were excellent, food was lovely - would highly recommend and will be staying again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Feb 2026

Paul

A great wee find. Friendly service and a top breakfast. Will definitely return when in the area.

10/10

Exceptional

08 Feb 2026

Katherine

The team were amazing - nothing was too much, always happy to chat and great service. We had a lovely stay and (as per previous comments) the breakfast really was delicious

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jan 2026

Mark

The staff were good, food was excellent, the only negative was the WIFI i the room wasn't good.

Business_and_leisure

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jan 2026

Alistair

Friendly, clean and quiet. A lovely stay

Business

10/10

Exceptional

03 Jan 2026

Barrie

Great breakfast

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

27 Dec 2025

LYNN

Room wasnt that clean to be fair
Bedside table sticky and dirty
cobwebs on lights etc
Bed was comfy though
Drinking expensive wine and guiness out of plastic glasses indoors?

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

10 Dec 2025

David

Room was lovely and staff as always very friendly

Business

10/10

Exceptional

07 Dec 2025

Chithira

Room were good including amenities. Parking seems to be an issue as it’s a diner as well m. depending on your arrival slots may not be available. Parking was available on adjacent street. The staff were helpful.

WiFi was poor in our room.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

01 Dec 2025

Celia

We had a lovely stay here. Our bedroom was a little snug for three nights but the staff couldn’t have been more helpful and I had the very best bespoke Bloody Mary ever….
Food good with very generous helpings…

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

13 Nov 2025

Jason

Great place to stay and great food and staff

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Oct 2025

iain

GReat food both in the evening and at Breakfast. Fabulous Staff. A great place to stay!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

25 Oct 2025

Trevor

Great central location, convenient and efficient without fuss and great breakfast.
The only marked down star was for wifi not quite strong enough to work in room 9 and low flow rate of shower.

10/10

Exceptional

18 Oct 2025

Linda

Great breakfast, clean room and good evening meal, location on the green was lovely.

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

11 Oct 2025

Marguerite

Very good time

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

05 Sep 2025

Susan

The hotel was in the centre of the lovely little town of Sedgefield, which had lots of eating and drinking options. We booked because we were going to the nearby Sedgefield races.

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

27 Aug 2025

Steven

Great Place to Stay

Our stay was very comfortable, the room had everything you need for a long and was very clean however the bathroom was small and the shower water was very hot and couldn't be cooled down. Due to attending the 80s concert we couldn't check in until after the 11 o'clock deadline however the staff where happy to wait for us, Thank You. Breakfast was delicious and relaxing as its pre-booked and staff were very friendly and helpful. The hotel is located in a great place within Sedgefield.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

22 Aug 2025

Wayne

Nice hotel with good food and service

Nice hotel friendly staff good food , rooms are fresh and clean , parking is a bit hit and miss as you have to park on the street , WiFi was ok when you got to connect , dropped out quite often , bathrooms where clean and modern

Business

10/10

Exceptional

08 Aug 2025

Darren

2nd visit. Still fab.

Great accomodation, lovely location on the edge of the square and staff are friendly and helpful. Room was great as was the food

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

14 Jul 2025

Susan Jane

Lovely pub, great breakfast

Staff really went out of their way to look after us. They did their best to rectify problem with television, which had been out of order since storm a few days earlier

Partner

8/10

Excellent

10 Jul 2025

Mark

Friendly staff, lovely food. Unfortunately tv didnt have great reception, isnt good when on road all week and have nothing to do except drink in bar !

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

07 Jul 2025

Kiernan

What a lovely place!!!

I booked the Pickled Parson for an overnight stay. The hotel and Sedgefield were both lovely.

The staff were excellent, welcoming and explained all we needed to know at check-in, which included completing a breakfast form and time for breakfast. This wasn't needed immediately, but sometime before the end of the evening. The bar area was busy, but had enough tables and chairs, there was also a small seating area outside overlooking the village green and in the shadow of the village church, a great spot for a quick drink. We ate in the bar, but there is also a restaurant which is where breakfast is served.

The evening meal was fantastic and I thought a reasonable price. The bedroom with ensuite shower was adequately sized, it included a very comfy bed and pillows, tea and coffee making facilities, a radio, and a couple of bedside tables. The only downside was the tv had a poor reception, however, we didn't go there to watch tv. The room overlooked the village green and we were opposite the church. A really lovely spot. If youre a light sleeper the church clock strikes every 15 minutes, but it didn't affect me, and there are some earplugs supplied in the room, a great idea!!

The shower wasn't the biggest, but it was big enough, the shower wasn't the most powerful, maybe just the water pressure in an old building. However, it did the job absolutely fine.

Breakfast was fantastic, a real treat.

Overall, a lovely place and hopefully a return trip will be planned.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

30 Jun 2025

Barry

I had to cancel but staff were great.

I have been hounded by Hotels.com to leave a review. The hotel reception staff were very helpful, but I had cancelled my stay so have no review to give. I asked for a VAT receipt for the cancellation cost and the staff could not have been more helpful. Many thanks to them.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

13 Jun 2025

David

Very clean room and comfy bed, breakfast was excellent.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

02 Jun 2025

Sonja

Lovely hotel/Pub really friendly staff, lovely rooms and great food. Breakfast as well as evening meal were excellent. Will be back in July on my next business tripp

Business

10/10

Exceptional

20 Apr 2025

Chris

A really nice pub, restaurant and hotel. An excellent location in the middle of the village.
Our room was a really nice size, well maintained, clean, comfortable and with excellent facilities.
The food and service was of a very high standard with friendly and professional staff.

Leisure Partner

6/10

Pleasant

15 Apr 2025

Anthony

Could do better

Not good value for money. Tries to be a boutique hotel but falls short. Having read earlier reviews we asked for a quiet room - ignored. We were in room 1. Directly above bar with loud voices and boom boom boom music. Room large but dark. Paint peeling from walls where plaster blown due to damp. Shower temperature regulator broken so you can have very hot or very hot. Bed too soft, uneven foam mattress. Lock broken on loo cubicle downstairs so try not to get locked in. Breakfast cooked to order and tasty, the lady serving it was very warm and welcoming. Can’t give this a higher rating as the following night we stayed in the luxurious Oulton Hall in Leeds for just €10 more - a world of difference. Pity. Sedgefield is a lovely village and the hotel location is very pretty. Just didn’t live up to expectations.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

27 Mar 2025

Pauline

Good for a night, nice food and atmosphere downstairs
A few things to improve in the room for a 10/10 stay

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

12 Mar 2025

dave

Quality room, classy people

This is a super little pub. Great people, nice rooms. A proper breakfast and i good night's sleep. We will return. The perfect location when racing at Sedgefield.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

23 Feb 2025

Octavia

Lovely place

Lovely place to stay - carpets could do with renewing in the bedroom but that was the only negative. Bed super comfy

Partner

8/10

Excellent

10 Feb 2025

Mark

Friendly staff, parking is a little bit of a pain. Not many spaces around hotel, but plenty on streets.

8/10

Excellent

12 Jan 2025

Louise

Room 1 stay

The room was clean, pleasant and ready on time. Staff were friendly and helpful. The bed was comfortable and decently sized. We stayed in Room 1. The room is painted in dark colours which were modern and nice but with the lighting I couldn’t see anything up close in the mirrors. It was dark for applying any make-up.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Jan 2025

Trevor

great place with good rooms, beer and excellent breakfast

10/10

Exceptional

01 Dec 2024

donna

A lovely hotel very friendly and good atmosphere very relaxing. All the staff were great thank you 🙏. It was right in central for visiting family. Highly recommend it

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

21 Oct 2024

David

Great place to stay

Excellent location, service, rooms

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

18 Oct 2024

Rhodri

Excellent thanks

Business Self

6/10

Pleasant

20 Sep 2024

Lesley

Great for a single overnight stay

Lovely location in centre of the village but only has street parking. My room was very small for a double, too small really for 2 people but ideal for 1. Bedroom noisy as only single glazing.

Business

8/10

Excellent

08 Sep 2024

Claire

The rooms were lovely, the food was great. Excellent service by Harvey. The only downside is the music is on until 11pm and it’s very loud you can hear it over the TV. It does go off at exactly 11pm though so not really late but I like quiet.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

29 Aug 2024

Trevor

Friendly, good rooms, great breakfast centre of village, what is not to like. Will stay again

10/10

Exceptional

17 Aug 2024

Judith

Lovely rooms, tea, coffee, biscuits in rooms. Well presented. breakfast is huge and staff are fab.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

15 Aug 2024

Helena

I have to say I fell in love with this place. Decor is 10/10 ! Loved it. Busy pub downstairs, lovely restaurant the other side. Staff were fantastic. I would absolutely recommend and I hope I get to come back

Leisure Self

8/10

Excellent

09 Jun 2024

Alex

Lovely stay with great staff and service. Really good breakfast. When it says the bed is a double it means a double. Bear that in mind if you are used to a King or Queen sized bed! Would quite happily stay here again

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

31 May 2024

nigel

Lovely Place

Wonderful little place, very clean and comfortable. Absolutely great breakfast it was amazing....

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 May 2024

Karl

Very up-to-date rooms. nice location!

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 May 2024

Mayra

Beautiful rooms with nice views

Absolutely loved this accomodation. Beautiful refurbishment, the room was stunning with modern industrial style. I got the church view room and it was stunning honestly.
Breakfast was included, you choose your order and time when checking in. It was delicious, honestly the best scrambled eggs I've ever had!
Amazing value for the price, perfect location.

Business Self

8/10

Excellent

28 Apr 2024

Verified traveler

Nice pub in a lovely village

Very friendly helpful staff, breakfast was great - bathroom a little small.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

24 Mar 2024

Antony

Great staff and great food

Great staff, great food and comfortable stay

Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Feb 2024

Esther

Nice staff

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

17 Feb 2024

Jill

Lovely location, friendly folk

People there were just so friendly. The food was good, and the breakfasts simply stonking. Beautifully located opposite the church, and it was a delight to hear the bells being rung on the Sunday morning.
I would have liked to have brought my dogs - and they are allowed in the bar - but not in the bedrooms, so i made other arrangements. The advertising needs to make this clearer.
Do the bedroom windows open? I didnt quite have the strength to do it.

Self

6/10

Pleasant

16 Feb 2024

Gregory

Average accommodation.

The WiFi is non existent that made it extremely difficult to carry out work on my laptop in the evenings… the hotel don’t offer food on a Monday and Tuesday night that was disappointing and if I known that I wouldn’t have booked it. I complained about my shower as the water pressure and temperature was very poor. I was in the superior room number 1 and the music and noise from the bar was rather annoying and it the music and bar was open past 11pm every night.

Over all I doubt I would stay at the location again. For the price paid I had a lot higher expectations!!

Business

10/10

Exceptional

26 Jan 2024

David

Very comfy bed

Business

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jan 2024

Martin

Saturday break

Stunning location , easily accessible from the m1. Striking building with quirky coves and corridors. Staff are exceptionally friendly and polite food delicious , lovely bar area. Rooms are lovely and cosy and again some really quirky additions with the old fashioned phone. Nice touch. Highly recommend to everyone . We will certainly return.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Dec 2023

Garry

Great hotel in a great location

Great stay very nice room comfy bed great shower and the WIFI worked fine :-)

Business

2/10

Poor

30 Oct 2023

graham

no internett very poor could not do my work

Business

10/10

Exceptional

02 Aug 2023

Keith

The hotel was excellent the room we stayed in was decorated well clean and well looked after. You had plenty of choice with drinks in the room decaf or normal tea and coffee as well as hot chocolate and specialist teas. The bed was very comfy. The staff were polite and friendly. The food served in the pub was excellent. We had to be full English breakfast. We would definitely stay here again.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

31 Jul 2023

Karen

Staff couldn’t be more friendly .
Room really clean , bed really comfortable.
Tired carpets but didn’t spoil our 1 night stay .

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

24 Jul 2023

John

Nothing to complain about at all except perhaps that breakfast needed booking the night before and finished too early at 09:00

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

21 Jul 2023

Simon

Wonderful Stay

Great place, wonderful food and lovely staff

Business

10/10

Exceptional

15 Jul 2023

David

Very good rooms.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jul 2023

Suzanne

Lovely

Beautiful bathroom. Food not available but there is a very good Italian a few minutes walk away.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

05 May 2023

Stuart

Perfect stay

Hotel staff great, very friendly place, good room, amazing food breakfast and evening meal.

Business

4/10

Poor

10 Apr 2023

Mark

A very lovely pub with large, very well equipped rooms in the heart of Sedgefield town. Although no food is available on Monday and Tuesdays in the pub… and there is a very good menu…there are good alternatives within a short walk. The experience was only flawed by the total absence of serviceable wifi in my room. Very good reception almost to the door … then nothing. This could be a good thing sometimes, but not if you have work to do! A £30 range extender would cure the matter. A minor matter, disproportionately frustrating. Would happily stay again… but maybe with working WIfi

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

10 Mar 2023

Paul

Warm and welcoming. Nothing was too much for the staff. The most comfortable bed.

Leisure Partner

8/10

Excellent

18 Feb 2023

Wes

Overall a pleasant place to stay. Breakfast was really nice.

Business

10/10

Exceptional

10 Jan 2023

Grant

Had a lovely time for my girlfriends big 40th birthday.Very nice room and even the bed was comfy. Breakfast was freshly cooked with great service throughout our stay . Will return

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2022

Anton

Wonderful place to stay. Lovely rooms, service and excellent breakfast.

Kind and helpful staff

Business

10/10

Exceptional

11 Oct 2022

Helen

Lovely comfortable stay

Lovely rooms, very quiet and decorated in modern, industrial style. Very comfortable bed. Excellent breakfast.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

21 Aug 2022

Libby

Having attended the popular, local festival Hardwick Live, we walked back to be greeted by a member of staff stood in the doorway to the bar telling us it was closed and we had to go straight to our room. This is despite others being in the bar, and being able to see people stood at the bar ordering (we were hoping to order hot chocolates - very rock and roll!).
She then told us to take off our shoes before we went any further into the building (our shoes were wet, but perfectly clean).
Not the most welcoming! I don’t they want people going to the festival staying at their establishment.

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

18 Aug 2022

Malcolm

Very quaint stay.

The hotel is very nice, the room was really comfortable with a newly decorated interior. Comfy bed, good amount of tea/ coffee/ water all free and they also provided some Tunnocks biscuits nice touch. The bathroom en-suite was quite large and had a good shower and sink. Breakfast was excellent and the young chef did a great full English using good quality products and all cooked to order. Thank you for a lovely stay.

Business

8/10

Excellent

27 Jun 2022

Elizabeth

Lovely overnight stay with friends in this charming pub! Gorveous room with really comfy bed...water coffee & chocolate on the room too! Breakfast was excellent and served perfectly by lovely helpful staff. Will definitely stay here again.

Partner

8/10

Excellent

15 May 2022

John

The room was a good size and the bed was comfortable. The bathroom towels were excellent. Breakfast options were limited but for me that was not an issue. The wifi was weak. There were earplugs available in the room as it was noisy until the bar closed. My stay was good value for the money paid.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

10 May 2022

Robert

Lovely stop over

Nicely decorated, comfortable room.
Good evening meal and breakfast with good service.
We would definitely stay there again.

10/10

Exceptional

03 Apr 2022

John

Friendly welcome. Room and bed very comfortable. Excellent breakfast included. Would definitely stay here again.