Oxfordshire Cotswolds eight-suite hotel may replace barn

The scenic Cotswolds in Oxfordshire might soon be home to the proposed development on land at Ryehill Farm in Kingham.

A planning application has been lodged outlining plans for new parking, a reception and meeting room.

Proposed site block plan for the hotel. (Image: West Oxfordshire District Council.)

A ground floor layout plan for the building suggests each room in the new hotel would contain a bathtub, terrace and sitting room, among other facilities.

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Comments on a drainage response report released this week state no flooding history for the site which lies within 'flood zone one', meaning there is a low probability of flooding.Proposed elevations for the hotel. (Image: West Oxfordshire District Council.)

The report requested confirmation as to whether the existing building had any surface water drainage in place.

A photograph of Kingham. (Image: NQ)

An associated application for Ryehill Farm seeks to convert two agricultural barns into holiday lets and a third into a leisure facility to "service the holiday accommodation" including a swimming pool, gym and deli with café facilities.

There has also been a request to add six more car parking spaces to the site which would bring the total up to 12.

Proposed ground floor layout for one of the barns. (Image: West Oxfordshire District Council.)

A planning statement for the application says there would be cycle parking provision present too.

Kingham is a village and civil parish located about four miles southwest of Chipping Norton.

A Country Life panel deemed it to be 'England's Favourite Village' in 2004.

But it was also dubbed the second-least 'affordable picturesque place' to move to in the UK in a study last year.