Come and experience Christmas and New Year at Pear Tree Farm in the best of traditional styles – two nights of feasts and festivities for up to eight guests.  The house looks spectacular in its Christmas finery and can be all yours for two whole days. We even provide a glass or two of Tanners Special Reserve champagne to help you get into the festive mood. Our beautiful 17th century home is yours for the festive season – the Christmas tree and room decorations, lovely bedrooms and bathrooms, roaring log fires, the small but perfectly formed wine list, fabulous country walks and all the gourmet food you could dream of.
Whatever the weather is doing, snow or frost, rain or shine, the house is welcoming and warm. Your Christmas present begins the moment you arrive on the afternoon of Christmas Eve. Settle in to your rooms and then come down for Tea (or Mulled Cider!) and home-made mince pies served by a roaring fire in the Sitting Room.
		Spend the next hour or two relaxing with a good book or a game of cards, Monopoly, Scrabble, Charades, or whatever takes your fancy. Perhaps you might like to browse through our extensive library to find a reading for Christmas Night... ...or even just relax to some good music and the quiet contemplation of the next day’s pleasures, not least of which will be Jill's fabulous home-made traditional brandy-steeped Christmas Puddings (pictured left).
A three course supper in the Dining Room follows early evening cocktails, which come with our compliments. The rest of the evening is devoted to final Christmas preparations, perhaps Midnight Mass at St Laurence Church in Ludlow, putting presents under the tree, carol singing around the piano (you’re playing cos we can't!) or just getting an early night. Christmas Day awakens with a traditional country house style Kedgeree breakfast, setting you up for the rigours of the day ahead. A few hours free lets you explore the wild winter Wigmore landscape, its castles and forests, lakes and rivers, to blow away the cobwebs. A glass of champagne and canapés greet your return and a four course Christmas lunch gets underway at whatever time you choose – a free range traditional feast using the best of our local ingredients, all home made of course down to the brandy mincemeat in the mince pies!
Christmas tea and Christmas cake at whatever o’clock bridge the gap ‘til a late supper – home made bread and stilton with a glass of port and PTF apple and cider chutney. The evening is yours with wild weather outside, the lights turned down low, swapping ghost stories, playing charades or entertaining each other with specially chosen readings from any of our 1000 or so books. Boxing Day sets you up for the journey home with a full English brunch including prize winning Olde English sausages, Steve’s bread made with Bacheldre Mill organic flours and our own range of jams, jellies and preserves. Freshly squeezed orange juice, garden fruit compote and locally supplied fair trade coffee complete a truly substantial breakfast. There’s time for a walk up to Wigmore’s ancient ruined castle before or after brunch before you finally head for home with fond Christmas memories fresh in your mind. Until next year …and all this is yours for only £2000.
New Year 2008 - 2009
Celebrate the New Year hosting a private house party for your friends . (Up to 8 people for two nights which can be either 30th and 31st December or 31st December and 1st January.) This includes bed and breakfast, a three course dinner with cocktail and a 5 course New Year’s Eve dinner with half a bottle of champagne per person for just £2000.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Menus available on request. Additional nights at £400 for the house and breakfast.
Email for further details or phone Steve Dawson and Jill Fieldhouse on 01568770140
Fine Food and B&B Accommodation at Pear Tree Farm Guest House
7 miles from Ludlow, 9 miles from Leominster, 27 miles from Hereford