Harris Arms

There are over 100 wines to choose from a fantastic wine list here - both Mr and Mrs Whiteman are qualified award-winning wine-makers. There are around 20 of their favourites by the glass and detailed, helpful notes with each wine; you can buy them to take home, too. The bar has burgundy end walls and cream ones in between, some rather fine photographs, afghan saddle-bag cushions scattered around a mixture of dining chairs and along a red plush built-in wall banquette, and a woodburning stove. On the left, steps lead down to the dining room with elegant beech dining chairs (and more afghan cushions) around stripped-wood tables, and some unusual paintings on the walls. Bays Best and Otter Ale or Sharps Doom Bar on handpump, local cider and Luscombe organic soft drinks; there may be a pile of country magazines. On a heated decked area there are seats among pots of lavender and plenty of picnic-sets in the sloping back garden looking out over the rolling wooded pasture hills. They are growing 24 vines.