Can you stay at Soho Farmhouse?
The short answer: not unless you're a Soho House member, or the guest of one. Here's how it works — and the good news if you're not.
The short answer: not unless you're a Soho House member, or the guest of one. Here's how it works — and the good news if you're not.
No. Soho Farmhouse is a private members' club — the countryside outpost of Soho House — tucked into the fields near Great Tew in Oxfordshire. The bedrooms and cabins, the Cowshed spa, the pools, the restaurants and the cinema are all for members and their guests. You can't drive up and book a room for the weekend, and there's no day ticket for non-members. It is deliberately, famously private, which is a large part of the appeal for the people who go.
So if you've searched “can anyone stay at Soho Farmhouse” and hoped for a booking link, this is the honest picture — and then, below, the way around it.
To stay at Soho Farmhouse you need to be a Soho House member, or be brought by one. Membership isn't something you buy at the door: it's an application, with a joining fee and an annual membership fee, and it's reviewed rather than simply sold. Once you're a member, cabins and bedrooms are booked through the members' app — and because the Farmhouse is one of the most sought-after houses in the group, even members find the best weekends go quickly.
Members can bring guests, so if you know someone in the club, a stay is possible that way. For everyone else, staying at the Farmhouse simply isn't on the table — but staying right beside it is.
Well Cottage is a Grade II-listed thatched cottage in the hamlet of Ledwell, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse — and, unlike the Farmhouse, anyone can book it. It sleeps seven across four bedrooms, with two inglenook fireplaces, a walled garden and an Aga kitchen, and it puts you right in the same quiet, beautiful pocket of the Oxfordshire Cotswolds: the lanes around Great Tew, the Falkland Arms on the green, the footpaths and the long views.
It works two ways. If you are a member, the cottage is a brilliant base for a bigger group — bring the whole family, come and go from the Farmhouse, and have your own thatched house to gather in. And if you're not a member, you still get to stay in exactly the countryside that made Soho House choose this spot in the first place. Our full guide to staying near Soho Farmhouse has the detail, including the walk and cycle route to the estate.
A thatched, self-catering cottage in Ledwell, less than a mile from Soho Farmhouse. Sleeps seven — and anyone can book it, member or not.