The Crown & Horns

3.0 star property
Enjoy the free WiFi at this 3-star Newbury hotel

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Photo gallery for The Crown & Horns

A room with a wooden table, a kettle, a blue mug, a mirror, and a tiled wall.
A bar with a 'Welcome to the Croft & Horns' sign, various liquor bottles, and a beer tap.
A dining area with a table set for two, a hanging light fixture, and a large framed picture of a bull.
Exterior
A shower with a handheld showerhead, a handheld shower attachment, and a wall-mounted showerhead. There are three bottles of shampoo and conditioner on a shelf.

Reviews

8.4 out of 10
Very good

Popular amenities

  • Pet friendly
  • Parking included
  • Free WiFi
  • Restaurant
  • Bar
  • Housekeeping

Explore the area

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Compton Road, Newbury, England, RG20 7LH
  • Place, North Wessex Downs
    ‪1 min walk‬
  • Place, East Ilsley
    ‪6 min walk‬
  • Place, Highclere Castle
    ‪26 min drive‬
  • Airport, Farnborough (FAB)
    ‪61 min drive‬

Room options

Standard Double Room, Ensuite

  • 22 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free WiFi

Standard Twin Room, Accessible, Ensuite

  • 24 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 2 Twin Beds
  • Free WiFi

Standard Suite, Ensuite

  • 30 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free WiFi

Comfort Double Room, Ensuite

  • 17 sq m
  • 1 bedroom
  • Sleeps 2
  • 1 Double Bed
  • Free WiFi

About the area

Newbury

In Newbury .At this Newbury hotel, you'll be within half a mile (1 km) of East Ilsley and 6 miles (10 km) of Chilton Field Wetland. Chilton Fields and The Library are also within 6 miles (10 km).

What's nearby

  • North Wessex Downs - 1 min walk - 0.0 km
  • East Ilsley - 6 min walk - 0.6 km
  • Newbury Racecourse - 18 min drive - 20.0 km
  • Highclere Castle - 26 min drive - 31.3 km
  • University of Oxford - 29 min drive - 35.3 km

Getting around

  • Newbury Racecourse Station - 11 min drive
  • Heathrow Airport (LHR) - 57 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Costa Coffee - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪The Hart Of Harwell - ‬9 min drive
  • ‪Lightbox Cafe - ‬5 min drive
  • ‪Greggs - ‬6 min drive
  • ‪Hampstead Norreys Community Shop & Cafe - ‬10 min drive

About this property

The Crown & Horns

Enjoy the free WiFi at this 3-star Newbury hotel
There's a restaurant on site. You can enjoy a drink at the bar/lounge. WiFi is free in public spaces. Self parking is free.

This 3-star Newbury hotel is smoke free.

  • 12 guestrooms or units
  • Garden
  • No smoking on site
  • Bar or lounge
  • Dining venue
The Crown & Horns offers 12 accommodations with irons/ironing boards and blackout drapes/curtains. Beds feature premium bedding. 40-inch flat-screen televisions come with digital channels.

This Newbury hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access, with a speed of 250+ Mbps (good for 3–5 people or up to 10 devices). Business-friendly amenities include desks and desk chairs. Housekeeping is provided daily.

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Property amenities

Family friendly

  • High chair

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • In-room WiFi speed: 250+ Mbps (good for 3–5 people or up to 10 devices)
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • A bar/lounge
  • A restaurant

Accessibility

  • No elevator

Room amenities

Entertainment

  • 40-inch flat-screen TV with digital channels

Bedroom

  • Blackout drapes
  • Premium bedding

Food and drink

  • Electric kettle
  • Tea bags/instant coffee

More

  • Desk
  • Desk chair
  • Heating
  • Iron/ironing board
  • Laptop workspace

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM
Contactless check-in available
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10:30 AM
Contactless check-out available

Special check-in instructions

There is no front desk at this property
Guests will receive an email within 48 hours before arrival with check-in instructions; your host will greet you
Information provided by the property may be translated using automated translation tools

Access methods

Host will greet you

Pets

  • Pets: GBP 20 per pet, per stay
  • Only dogs are allowed
  • Service animals are exempt from fees

Children and extra beds

  • Children are welcome.
  • Rollaway/extra beds are not available.
  • Cribs (infant beds) are not available.

Property payment types

Important information

Optional extras

The fees and deposits listed below will be charged at the time of service, check-in, or check-out.

  • Pet fee: GBP 20 per pet, per stay
  • Service animals are exempt from fees

This may not be a comprehensive list. Fees and deposits are subject to change and might not include tax.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit/debit cards; cash is not accepted
Charges for extra guests may apply and vary according to property policy.
A cash deposit, credit card, or debit card for incidental charges and government-issued photo identification may be required upon check-in.
Special requests are subject to availability at the time of check-in. Special requests can't be guaranteed and may incur additional charges.
    This property accepts credit or debit cards, Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Cash is not accepted. 

We should mention

  • Please note that this property can refuse certain bookings for the purpose of group events or parties, which include pre-wedding stag/bachelor and hen/bachelorette parties.
  • This property welcomes guests of all sexual orientations and gender identities (LGBTQ+ friendly).

Property is also known as

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Frequently asked questions

How close is The Crown & Horns to the airport?

The Crown & Horns is 25.5 mi (39-min drive) away from the Oxford (OXF) airport, the closest popular airport to the property.

How much does it cost to stay at The Crown & Horns?

As of Jun 21, 2026, prices found for a 1-night stay for 2 adults at The Crown & Horns on Jun 28, 2026 start from CA $117, excluding taxes and fees. This price is based on the lowest nightly price found in the last 24 hours for stays in the next 30 days. Prices are subject to change. Choose your dates for more accurate prices.

Does The Crown & Horns have an airport shuttle?

Airport shuttle services are not available at The Crown & Horns.

Does The Crown & Horns offer free breakfast?

The Crown & Horns does not offer free breakfast.

Is there a casino at The Crown & Horns?

No, there is no casino at this hotel.

What time is check-in at The Crown & Horns?

Check-in start time: 3:00 PM; Check-in end time: 10:00 PM.

Is there free parking at The Crown & Horns?

This hotel offers free self parking.

Does The Crown & Horns have a pool?

The Crown & Horns does not have a pool.

Does The Crown & Horns have a restaurant?

Yes, there is a restaurant on site.

Does The Crown & Horns have a spa?

There are no spa services available at this hotel.

How close is The Crown & Horns to downtown Newbury?

The Crown & Horns is 0.1 mi away from East Ilsley.

The Crown & Horns Reviews

Reviews

8.4

Very good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 79 out of 186 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 74 out of 186 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 19 out of 186 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 9 out of 186 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 5 out of 186 reviews

8.8/10

Cleanliness

8.8/10

Staff & service

7.2/10

Amenities

8.2/10

Property conditions & facilities

Reviews

Verified

10/10 Excellent

Bruno

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
tidy, clean, quiet, supportive staff I can recommend
Stayed 5 nights in Jan 2026
Verified

4/10 Poor

David

Disliked: Cleanliness
The room, specially the bathroom, needs a deep clening
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2026
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

My go-to place for Harwell campus

Always a comfortable and hospitable stay. Basic, but cozy, and friendly service.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Crown and Horns has always been a good choice for me to stay. Clean, friendly, affordable.
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Crown and Horns is a lovely little pub close to the Harwell Science & Innovation campus. Rooms are small, but clean and affordable. The pub itself is cosy and welcoming.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Lauren

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
A very warm welcome from a friendly team. The food here is great. Highly recommended to anyone walking the Ridgeway!
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2025
Verified

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Solid choice

Second time staying here. Rooms are clean and efficient, staff are friendly, and the pub is cozy.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

EMMANUEL

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Nice little place for a night

The staff is really nice and helpful, it is not the best hotel in the world, but it is clean, comfortable and welcoming for a night stop on business trip. The food is good, at pub standard, the only missing part is a breakfast more elaborate. It is the little place like that that makes you love the countryside of Britain
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

John

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Good location

Great location, perfect for what we wanted, comfortable. and the chef went out of his way to cook a full breakfast, (boy was it full) on the first day, although they do not apparently offer this normally, on the second day we had to just have cereals and no service was offered, no coffee or toast, which was a shame as it took the edge off. But overall, good
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2023
Verified

8/10 Good

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A quiet pub, one of two in the village ( no other shops) . If coming down from the north or west UK it would be a perfect final stop before dropping the car off at Heathrow Airport . Comfortable and clean rooms upstairs. The shower recess was a little tight for room. Very good food but eat early
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Harald

Liked: Staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Nice Staff, poor cleaning and loud neighbours
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023
Verified

6/10 Okay

Matthew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Crown & Horns

Wifi was shockingly bad. Only limited food available in the restaurant as in yku had a choice of about 4 meals. No cider on draft . My towel smelt like it had been dried with the kitchen exraction fan as it had a distinct amell of chip fryers...
Stayed 1 night in May 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Clare

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A bit noisy and very light

Just a little bit noisy from the beer garden. Need earplugs. Also need curtains at the window, it was very bright with just blinds.
Stayed 1 night in May 2024
Verified

6/10 Okay

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Nice but no breakfast available!!

Nice place but we were advused tgere was a continbreakfast available tye following mornibg when we checked in, and ut also stated tgat breakfast was available for an additional charge. However, when we asked the foloowibg mornibg qe were told that there was no breakfast available. The room was nice but lots of spiders, maybe down to the time of year.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024
Verified

6/10 Okay

Sheran

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Over rated. Dangerous stairs. Very loud water pump in bathroom. Ordinary bed - ended up in the middle of the bed all night. Little light in the room. Only one bedside light. Badly placed furniture & no where to put anything. Cosy bar & dining room that was well laid out. Staff were very good.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Keith

Liked: Staff & service
The property is and the game building work, so a lot of restriction of where you can walk. I’ve booked a double room ended up with a twin bedded room disabled there was no mugs or cups of coffee hadn’t been replenished. Went to put the rubbish in the bin and it is totally full. I don’t think the room has been cleaned properly. There was coffee stains on the bedside cabinet and running down the front would’ve been a nice place ivan least you problems
Stayed 1 night in Feb 2024
Verified

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Room comfort

A really lovely place with a few issues this time

I've stayed before and it's a really lovely pub, friendly service, nice grub and above all a really comfy bed. I was a bit disappointed this time though because a few things have slipped and whilst small they amounted to a slightly uncomfortable stay. Firstly the room was freezing cold, like a fridge on arrival as the radiator was off. It became apparent that this is because the windows have gaps around them even when closed (it's a lovely creaky old building so to be expected but this was extreme). I managed to whack the radiator on and tried clogging the gaps with the towel and a cushion which improved things. Some curtains would have helped rather than creaky blinds. Second issue was that whilst there were nice biccies and toiletries there was no milk! I remembered from before that you have to walk down the hallway and a flight of stairs to fill-up from the fridge but there was none here either. I was in my bedclothes by this point so not keen on going to the bar to request some which meant my evening cuppa was cancelled. No milk in the morning either. There is a cafetière to raise your hopes but no coffee to put in it. The rooms also have no cosy lighting, only the main light and some cold LED reading lights so it's a bit all or nothing. They have 'do not disturb' signs but nowhere to attach these to the outer door. It would be lovely if these issues could be resolved as it would really be a top-notch place with a bit more attention to detail. Thank you.
Stayed 1 night in Jan 2025
Verified

6/10 Okay

Philip

Liked: Staff & service
I am going to be kind here, and take into account that the Manager, a very nice & polite young man (named Zak??), advised us upon our arrival that he had only just started running this pub in the past 2 weeks. Apparently his boss had just bought the place after it had been "run down for a while". With that in mind..... The good points were that the staff were very friendly and helpful. We were supposed to book in by 9pm, but because i finished work later than anticipated, and we had to drive from Essex, we didn't arrive at the pub until 22:30. The pub rang us just after 9pm to check if we were still coming, and said it was no problem if we arrived late. Once we finally got there, we were told that there was no breakfast available, despite us being advised on the website that cooked breakfast was available Zak said that in compensation for no breakfast, they had put small individual boxes of cereal out, on top of a bar fridge, with cold milk, orange & apple juice. The choice of cereal was limited to Corn Flakes, Rice Crispies & Special K. The room was smaller than i expected, but was ok for 1 night. The day we arrived was very very unseasonally hot. 32°! So, consequentially, our room was very hot. It was very warm in the room. Too hot to sleep. The addition of a fan would have helped. All the windows had wire stays fitted to them, to stop guests opening the windows too wide. Thankfully our window stay was broken, so we had our window wide open! No regular coffee in room.
Stayed 1 night in Jul 2024
Verified

8/10 Good

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
The Crown and Horns has always been a good choice for me to stay. Clean, friendly, affordable.
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Lovely old inn with annex accommodation cosy and adequate. Bar and restaurant excellent in evening, but no breakfast available.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Paul

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

A couple of minor issues but otherwise very good.

Very friendly and helpful staff. High end Bosch coffee maker in my room but I needed a demonstration to learn how to make it work (it made excellent coffee for a machine). Breakfast is cereal they give you the evening before: there's no cooked breakfast. Small hotel and no one is on-site in the morning for check-out: you leave your key in the lock. Dinner was good. Took three attempts to get the wifi to work and you have to sign up with sky to get it (it's free but I dislike handing over an email address or setting up any kind of login).
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2022
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Pleasant rooms and a nice pub

I've stopped here before, a double room with the usual facilities attached to a busy, local rural village pub that does good food. The rooms I've stopped in had compact bathrooms, with nice walk in showers, on this occasion the bathroom was very cold (heating wasn't up to it). I would stop here again.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort

Overnight stay.

Cosy for a one night stay, excellent food. Powerful shower. Ceiling above shower could do with repainting. Coffee machines in rooms were good.
Stayed 1 night in Dec 2021
Verified

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Compact yet well presented

A compact yet well presented double room adjacent to a nice compact pub, with larger outside area, with a compact car park. Unfortunately, breakfast was only available from 09:00hrs onwards but the evening meal was excellent.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2021
Verified

10/10 Excellent

Andrew

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

The staff here are exceptional.

Very accommodating and friendly. The staff at this hotel are a credit to the industry.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2020