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Welcome to the crown

Michael and Sue, a brother and sister partnership with local connections, have transformed this dated property into a more contemporary and stylish bourique hotel. All the traditional features have been retained whilst the best of new technology has been installed throughout.

The two lounges are cosy and welcoming with comfortable seating and glowing open fires. There is also an attractive, heated patio area for al fresco dinning and drinking. A small fully equipped conference centre is located adjacent to the patio.

The restaurreants are very popular with locals and residents alike sue to the appetising menu devised by Head Chef Ray Smikle. It offers the best of British traditional dishes alongside more Euopean influences and all meals are cooked to order. Local produced is used where possible with a noticeable use of lamb from the owners own farm enarby. During the winter months there is also a preponderance of game on the menu, also supplied from the farm and local estates. Visit the Crown in early summer and you will be able to sample the delights of our own Asparagus as well.

The hotel is set in the town center with its own car park. Stamford is an attractive stone built town with many properties hailing from the medieval and Gerogian eras which are favoured with film makers and producers of costume dramas i.e. Pride and Prejudice, Middlemarsh and The Da Vinci Code. There are many historic sites to visit in the town and surrounding areas including Burghley House, which hosts the famoud Burghley Horse trails.

The Restaurant: Monday to Sunday 7am – 9.45 am Buffet and traditional English breakfast. Bacon butties, orange juice, tea and coffee will be available in the var up to 10.30 am, if you miss breakfast.

Lunch Monday to Thursday 12-­‐2.30pm Friday and Saturday 12-­‐10 Sunday – Set 3 Course lunch 12-­‐6pm Dinner Monday-­‐Thursday 6pm to 9.30pm Sunday sinner and bank holidays 6pm to 9pm

Room Service A limited a la carte is available during service times. Sandwiches and toasties are available all day. Beverages are available 24 hours a day. Please contact ext 222 to place a room service order.

Please dial 222 to have your tray collected.

The Bar Monday to Thursday 11am-­‐12am Friday and Saturday 11 am – 1 am Sunday 12.00pm – 11.30pm (Night porter service available at all times)

The drawing room The drawing room is available for your use during your stay. An honesty bar has been set up for your enjoyment. Please enter your room name and drinks consumer so that we may add this to your room account. Complimentary milk for tea and coffee can be found in the fridge located in the dressing table in The Drawing Room.

The Garden The Garden is available for your enjoyment during your stay with us at Number Six Barn Hill

Wake up Calls Please call reception to arrange your wake up call

Newspapers Newspapers may be pre-­‐ordered with reception and charged to your room account

Telephone Telephone calls are charged at 15p per minute local rate.

Please dial 0 for hotel reception and dial 9 for an outside line.

Television Please see additional enclosed sheet

iPod docking station An iPod docking station, along with radio and alarm clock is available for your use during your stay.

Complimentary broadband internet access Please contact hotel reception for a username and password for broadband internet.

Hairdryer The hairdryer is located in the dressing table in your bedroom

Other services Laundry – please take any laundry to reception at will be returned to your room within 24 hours.

Prices: Underware/socks – 50p, all other items £1.

An iron and ironing board is located in your wardrobe.

Shoe cleaning, sewing kits and toiletrees are available from reception (dial 2) Luggage tracks are located in your wardrobe.

Night Service The night porter is available all night

Gym

Westside Health and Fitness club is located just five minutes walk from The Crown, and is complimentary to all Crown Hotel guests. The opening times are Monday to Thursday 6.30am to 9.45pm, Friday 6.30 am to 9.00pm, Saturday 8am to 4pm and Sunday 9am to 4pm. Bank holidays have either have reduced hours or the gym is closed.

Guests are requested to check out by 11.00am on the day of departure.

HISTORY The history of Number 6 Barn Hill We have named the rooms at number 6 Barn Hill after Stamfordian people that were associated with the house. Further information about soe of the most historic houses in the town can be found in the book ‘A Family Affair – Stamford and the Cecils 1650-­‐1900’ by E.C Till.

The particular interests of this property is twofold: It was the home of two generations of the Wyche family, Town Clerks from 1701 to 1820, and it became for twnty years an ill recorded by important road carrier’s entrepot.

1749 Purchase of 6 Barn Hill (then and until 1842 one messuage) by John Wyche for £410. The property extended south-­‐west to Cock Lane where there are two cottages included in the estate.

1751 John Wyche mortgages the property for £300.

1755 Assignment of the mortgage to The Earl of Exeter

1769 Death of John Wyche. He leaves all his property to his wife Elizabeth for life then to his two daughters Jane and Julianna.

1771 John Wyche, the son (1738 – 1820), appointed to the stewardship of Stamford Manor.

1773 Death of Elizabeth Wyche, the widow. John Wyche insures his ‘new’ property against fire for a total sum £500.

1774 Jane and Julianna Wyche sell the house to their brother, John Wyche, for £600. They now live in London. Nearly seventy years later, in an abstract of title in 1843, it came to light that John Wyche, in a covenant between himself and his sisters, undertook that £560 of the purchase price should be retained by him to discharge the principal and interest on the mortgage that was assigned to the Earl of Exeter in 1755.

1776 No entries in the Stamford Court rolls and thereafter sparse entries until 1779.

1779 John Wyche, aged 41, is to marry Jane Peacock of Welbeck Street, Cavendhish Square, London. Under the terms of the mortgage jointure, she assigns to trustees nearly 32,500 in cash and a farm and property on the

Cambridgeshire fens, of which she has a half share. John Wyche transfers to the trustees the house with its mortgage still in existence.

1780 John Wyche is discharged by the ninth Earl of Exeter from the stewardship of the Stamford manorial courts. The reason given has neglect of his Lorships business, and failure to keep the court books and rolls entered John Wyche refused to surrender them on deman, and a prolonged changery suit ensued./ He employed every possivble legal trick – putting in minimal appearances, and making evasive answeres, even forcing the Earl to lodge £200 with the Chancery Court against reputed monies due to hium. In 1782, he was arrested on an attachement and warrant, but somehow persuaded the Sheriff to assign his bail bond to the plaintiff (Lord Exeter) instead of returning a ‘cepi corpus’ (i.e certificate of arrest). The process was set in motion once more, and in 1783 he was again arrested and on this occasion surrendered manorial documents (but probably not all, for to this day the Town Hall holds manorial and other documents that should be in the Muniments Room at Burghley)

1781 The Earl, usually an easy going nobleman, was undoubtedly riled at the procrastination, and suddenly requested repayment of the mortgage on the Barn Hill house (now for £330) and outstanding interest of £275. This large sum presumably had to be found out of John Wyche’s marriage jointure funds, and the mortgage was then assigned to a trustee, William Trollope. From the deed we learn that the house has ‘new erections, alterations, additions and improvements made by the said John Wyche’. Also the cottages in Cock Lane (Scotgate) are converted into a brewhouse and coach house. This dates the large panelled parlour with its bold bay window (the ground floor bedroom now called the Ninth Earl) to 1780-­‐ 1781.

1783 The Stamford Manor Court Rolls doe this year record the presentment (i.e summons to appear before the courst) of John Wyche for one large bow window projecting on the street. At the same time, ten other Stamfordians were presented for one or two bow windows. Whether this represents a sudden general attack upon a very popular late eithteenth century embellishment of property, or perhaps a justification of the particular ‘dig’ of John Wyche, it is hard to determine.

1792 Assignment of the mortgage from William Trollope to Mary Sanderson of Lutton, hurus, widow. It is now for £350. The animosity between John Wyche and Lord Exeter had continued unahated, and lasted until the Earl’s death in

1793. It is well illustrated by an enny in the Sumford Corporate Hall (minute) Book from 1792. Lord Exeter was erecting a building immeditatly south of the new Town Hall which projected three yards forward from the Town hall, and anxious that the glories of the new civic bulding should not be obscured, the corporation requested that the façade should be set back to be ‘even in line with the front of the Town Hall’. Not unreasonabl, for space behind was somewhat limited, the Ear did not comply. As recorded of the borough with full access to the Hall. Book, the would have noted Wyche’s gramious and vitriolic commerce.

The Lord Recorder gave an extensive answere to his vert reasonable request

(but unsual for him to do) and his steward informared the genetlemen of the Corporation a very great falisity that his Lordship has curtly that he could not oblige them.

1795 The mortage assigned from May Sanderson to Francis Willis, M.D, opf Grweatford, doctor in physic, the mortgage is incread to £700 (See more below)

1820 John Wyche died, aged 82. His wife had predeceased him. And Nathaniel Farrant, his clerk, was living with him.

1824 Sale of the property for £840. By trustees appointed under Whyce’s will, to John Nixon of St Martins carrier.

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Telephone

Hotel telephone number 01780 763 136 Hotel Fax number 01780 756 111

For an outside line dial ‘9’ For reception dial ‘0’ For the restaurant dial ‘222’ To call another room dial ‘2’ followed by the room number (example ‘201 or 214’)

Price tariffs: Desticantion Local National Europe USA Australia China £0.15 £0.35 £1.45

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There is a minimum charge of 10p for all calls Bedroom Tariff Deluxe Double Room £165 Luxury Double Room from £145 Superior Souble Room from £135 Superior Twin from £135 Classic Double Room from £125 Family Room from £165 (£10 supplement per child)

All rates are per room, per night inclusive of a full English breakfast

Burghley is one of the largest and grandest houses of the first Elizabethan age.

Built and mostly designed by William Cecil, Lord High treasure to Queen Elizabeth 1, between 1555 and 1587. Visitor facilities include the Orangery restaurant, Gift shop, Gardens of Surprise and beautiful walks around the historic parkland laid out by Capality Brown and still occupied by a herd of fallow deer. History can come alive in a single trip whether it is to enjoy a guided tour, take a dog for a walk in the park, take the children to paddle or see the teddy’s bear picnic in the garden’s of Surprise or take time over lunch in Orangery.

Opening times and Admission Prices The house season starts Friday 21st March until Thursday 30th October (except Fridays) 11am to 5pm, last admission 4.30pm.

The Gardens of Surprise admission charges apply daily from Friday 21st March to Thursdayt 30th October. Adults £6.00