The farm

The farm, through a day.

Six photographs taken by the people who work here, in the order a day runs: the first walk, the suites, the clean, the feeding, the wash, the double. The evening photograph of your own dog is the seventh.

The stone farmhouse, the barns and the huge oak in the yard, late afternoon

Six photographs

Four dogs running across the paddock under the oak with a kennel assistant throwing a ballThe first walk

Seven in the morning

Photograph by Lowri

The first walk of the day, family by family, before breakfast. The oak has watched this every morning since 2008 and for about three hundred and eighty years before that.

A suite with a raised bed, a window and a golden retriever on the bedThe suites

Suite nine

Photograph by Helen

Underfloor heating, a window at dog height and a bed from home. The retriever is Bramble, who has stayed eleven times.

A corridor of clean kennels with glass-fronted timber doors and skylightsThe suites

The cowshed, after the morning clean

Photograph by Dan

Twenty-four doors, hosed and dried by ten while the dogs are out. The radio in the corridor is on Radio 2, low.

Labelled food tubs and a row of steel bowls in the kennel kitchenFeeding

Five o'clock

Photograph by Lowri

Twenty-four bowls, twenty-four charts, your food at your times. Raw in the fridge on the left.

A wet labrador being towel-dried by a kennel hand in the tiled wash roomLast morning

Going home clean

Photograph by Dan

A bath and brush on the last morning is £18 and most Labradors need it.

Two dogs from the same family sharing a double suite with two beds and a glass door onto a private runThe suites

Suite twenty, the double

Photograph by Helen

Pip and Moss, who live together and sleep nose to tail. Two dogs in a double is cheaper than two singles.

The evening photograph

Every evening, a photograph of your dog and a line about the day.

Taken on the last walk by the person who walked them, so it is usually outdoors and usually mid-movement, and it is not posed. Eaten, walked, slept, what it did with the ball. If your dog is not settling you hear that too, on the second day, by phone. We do not post photographs of guests on social media without asking you first, and we do not put them on this site; the dogs on these pages are ours, the team's and Bramble, whose owner said yes.

A kennel hand sitting on the floor of a suite in the evening beside an elderly greyhound

Book a stay, or come and look.

Give us the dates, the dog and whether two are sharing, and Helen replies within a day with the suite, the price and the deposit. Viewings on Saturdays, eleven to one, no appointment. Bring the dog.