Room with a View: Brace of Pheasants, Plush, Dorset
Another rural location for this year’s birthday and an annual visit to Monkey World. The Brace of Pheasants is really a pub with some outbuildings that masquerade well as 8 bedrooms. You can reach them through the car park or walk through the pub full of locals who don’t tend to give us outsiders a second glance as I think our money keeps their local pub going.
A path leads us to the open door at the end to our digs for the next couple of nights. We are greeted by a large room with a two big triple wardrobe, a dressing table and a chair - not a desk; this is definitely in keeping with the 16th Century past of the inn.
There is an ample bed with bedside tables and lamps and most important when your front door leads straight to the chilly countryside, radiators that give us full control.
A small table houses our kettle, mugs and biscuits although the pod coffee machine and bottles of water are on the dressing table opposite. There are plenty of large mirrors, some power sockets and a small TV is attached to the corner wall as the wardrobe is opposite the bed. Drawers come via the bedside tables, and dressing table and there are shelves in the big wardrobe.
The bathroom gives us a huge tub with a tap perfectly placed in one corner and out of the way. The tub is definitely good for 2. The now normal large bottles of toiletries are attached to the wall. Remember when it was just Premier Inn that offered this instead of lots of little plastic bottles?
An overhead rainbow shower completes the luxurious feel. Storage comes via a shelf along the sink wall, a hook behind the door and a heated towel rail.
The room is well equipped, if slightly over-furnished and wonderfully quiet and cosy.
We reserved a table for dinner in the pub which was as noisy as you would expect for a Friday night and had enormous fish and chips. A Brace of Pheasants sounded delightfully rural and animal loving - until I saw the references to hunting all around the pub. Anyhow, we decided to have dinner there the next night too and all I have photos of then is the big spotted dick and custard that I suddenly found room for.
A lovely location. After all, who doesn’t want to stay in a place called Plush?
October 2022
