Plan a Christmas in Devon full of candlelit feasts, crisp walks over countryside and coast, and no pressure to peel a single Brussels sprout.
23rd December
A warm welcome
By the time you arrive at 3pm, fires will be lit and wine mulled.
Make yourself at home with a glass of something warm as you sit down with the chef to make biscuits. Fireside welcome drinks and festive canapés will ease you into a Devon Christmas in the countryside, before dinner begins in the Refectory. An optional wine pairing is available for those who like to start as they mean to go on.
24th December
Christmas Eve
With last-minute rushes left at home, all that’s left to do today is wake when you choose, enjoy breakfast slowly and plan how you’ll spend Christmas Eve in Devon.
Wrap up for bracing beach strolls or let us arrange a lift into Totnes, a place where Christmas spirit exists in abundance. Or don’t. Stay exactly where you are. Join George’s farm tour, head into the garden with the chef to gather last bits for dinner, or follow the footpaths into the valley if your legs are asking for a stretch.
Christmas Eve in the Refectory is all candlelight and clinking glasses. Afterwards, we’ll have a Christmas classic playing in the Farmhouse and lots of time to soak in that special feeling of the night before Christmas.
25th December
Christmas Day
Wake to Christmas Day at Fowlescombe Farm, all frost-tipped fields and celebratory breakfasts (with the garden’s take on a Bloody Mary). Once the presents are open and the morning walks done, we’ll serve Christmas lunch as it should be: no timelines or unnecessary trimmings, just a feast of Devon’s finest produce at long tables in the Greenhouse.
Whether it is hunger or curiosity that sparks your appetite again later on, a generous supper spread will serve delicious purpose, before you hunker down in the Farmhouse or your suite.
26th December
Boxing Day
After a couple of days’ indulgence, Boxing Day is about doing very little and pressing the reset button. We’ll have a restorative, slow yoga session in the Greenhouse, the sauna will be hot and the pond will braced to welcome those who dare to dive in.
Back in the kitchen, the team will get to work preparing a Boxing Day buffet that is all about comfort food served generously. Whether you headed out for the day or took things slowly here at the farm, it’ll be just what the seemingly endless appetites of Christmas calls for.
27th December
A Fond Farewell
As the world begins to stir from its festive slumber, linger a little longer. Stay tucked away in the Devon countryside, where the pace is still slow. Let us arrange transfers for Dartmoor roams or run the bath, pick up your book and don’t leave your suite until dinner.
One last meal in the Refectory bookmarks your stay with four slow, seasonal courses. There’ll be a toast, a farewell, and perhaps the beginnings of a plan to do it all again next year.