Lintel
A dim corner with a small marble table, a lamp and a green chair upholstered in a leaf pattern.

Six rooms · since 2019

Above the old Westgate branch, where the counter used to be.

Est. as a bank 1911

A dark wooden cabinet with a white lamp and a round mirror against a caned wall. A breakfast tray of small cakes, fruit and tea on a dark wooden table.

Six rooms above an old bank, and breakfast in the vault until eleven

A warm sitting room with leather armchairs, a writing desk and tall curtained windows. A brass wall lamp lighting a wooden stump used as a bedside table.

The house

We kept the doors, the vault and the clock that stopped in 1996

Lintel is two floors of an Edwardian bank. The manager's office is Room 1. The strongroom in the basement, with its door still on its hinges, is where breakfast happens. We are Aled and Priya; we live on the top floor and one of us is always in.

There is no reception desk. There is a bell on the old counter, and it works.

A dim room with a stone wall, a desk chair and a small vase by a window.

The reading room, first floor

A round white table with a bottle of wine and glasses by a window onto open fields.

The six rooms

Every room is different, because every room used to be something else

A bedroom with a black iron bed, framed photographs and a herringbone floor.

1 · The manager

Double, big desk, two windows onto the square. £140

A neatly made white bed with a grey headboard and a wall hanging above.

2 · The clerks

Double, quiet, faces the yard. £115

A twin room with teal bedspreads, a patterned rug and an open arched window.

3 · The two desks

Twin, the only room with two single beds. £120

A calm hotel bedroom with a large white bed and a patterned panel behind it.

4 · The ledger

King, deep bath behind a glass wall. £160

A washbasin and round mirror seen through a round doorway in a white wall.

5 · The round window

Small double under the roof, shower in the turret. £95

A reading lamp and a tree-stump side table next to a white bed.

6 · The night safe

Single, cheapest, most asked for. £70

A wooden board with coconut cakes, orange sweets, berries and a cup of tea.

Read before you come

Before you arrive

StairsThere is no lift. Rooms 5 and 6 are three flights up. We carry bags; tell us if stairs are a problem and we will put you on the first floor.

KeysArrive after three. If nobody answers the bell, the key is in a numbered box by the side door and we text you the code the morning you arrive.

BreakfastIn the vault, 08:00 until 11:00, all at one long table. Eggs stop at half ten because the cook has a second job.

DogsOne well-behaved dog in Room 2, £15 a night. Not in the vault.

Check a date

A small bar corner at night with a gold-framed mirror, a lamp and a patterned chair. A shadowed chair and desk in a room with a stone chimney. A lamp and round mirror on a dark cabinet.

Reservations

Ring, and one of us will pick up

See the rooms

Address

Lintel, 2 Westgate Square
side door on Bank Passage

Telephone

+44 7700 900 504
09:00–21:00, every day

On this page

Lintel is a fictional example. The guesthouse, the bank, Aled and Priya, the rooms and the prices do not exist. Photographs are stock images from different places and were not taken at this house.