Jessamine Cottage B & B

Type: Bed & Breakfast

Jessamine Cottage B&B is a four star Bed & Breakfast with a Silver Award and a Breakfast Award. Jessamine Cottage is run by Sue and Winston Castle and we pride ourselves on our service and dedication to detail.

We are within easy walking distance of Old Town and Swindon's town centre through Queen's Park, which is just a minute away.

Sue makes fantastic breakfasts. Start with our freshly squeezed (never bought in) orange juice or try my favourite, freshly squeezed pink grapefruit juice. Full English breakfast. Take your pick from eggs, fried, sunny side up or over easy, poached, scrambled, boiled, in fact anyway you like. Bacon, we have some superb locally produced smoked best back. The sausages we supply are from The Butchers Dog Sausage Company, in Berkshire, who supply the best meat, game and sausages around. Fresh tomatoes, mushrooms, hash browns, Heinz baked beans. Toast, we bake our own bread daily or we can buy in any special bread you may require including gluten free, just let us know your requirements. Top quality honey, jams and marmalades from Bonne Maman or locally produced when available. Light Breakfasts Perhaps scrambled eggs with smoked salmon or would you like kedgeree? We like to take your order the night before so everything is ready and we can cook your eggs just as you like them. If you want to just come down and choose from our menu while you have some freshly brewed coffee or tea then we will be delighted to create a wonderful breakfast just for you.

The Jessamine Cottage Package, we include free WIFI, broadband access, car parking, plasma TVs, coffee, tea, chocolate bars, fresh milk in a mini fridge and bottled water. Leave your car here for the day while you visit attractions or go to a meeting. Forgotten your toothbrush or razor? No problem, all part of the service. Need to use our mini office. We have a netbook with Open Office (compatible with Microsoft Office), internet access, printing, faxing, scanning and copying via a Kodak ESP 3250 all setup and ready to go for a nominal charge as well as stamps, envelopes and lots of paper. Winston has been a trainer in his time as a tecchie so he can help with most PC problems, linking to the net or providing some advice on how to use many desktop programs.

We have four star silver grade with VisitEngland and VisitWiltshire and are members of the British Quality Foundation (BQF) and have achieved the prestigious Committed to Excellence standard with the BQF and the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM). Jessamine Cottage is a husband and wife team. Small enough to care, big enough to give a service second to none with all the advantages of a top flight hotel, business support, great food but no big prices and no hidden extras.

Accommodation Information

Number of Rooms/Units:

3

Honeysuckle and Queen’s Park are £50.00 per night for stays of three nights or more. Jessamine is £85.00 per night for stays of three nights or more.

Road Directions

Directions from J15 M4 -
Leave the motorway taking the Swindon A419 exit. Take the first slip road (500 yards) towards Swindon. Take the first exit towards Swindon A4259 Marlborough Road. Leave the Great Western Hospital to your left A4259.

Go past the Rising Sun public house and at the roundabout take the second exit up the hill B4006 Marlborough Road. Keep on this road for about a mile, you will go straight over two mini roundabouts until you reach a large roundabout, The Pipers roundabout.

Take the 3rd exit to stay on the B4006, this is still the Marlborough Road. Go straight up the hill and second exit at a mini roundabout. Second exit at the next mini roundabout onto High Street leaving the Co-op on your left.

As you start to go down the hill the road becomes Cricklade Road and you leave the "Old Lady" Christ Church Swindon on your right. You are now on Drove Road. Go past The Harvester restaurant and public house on your left Just after the mini roundabout with Upham Road you will find Jessamine Cottage.

Directions from J16 M4 -
Take the A3102 Swindon exit on the M4 Spittleborough roundabout onto Great Western Way. Straight over the traffic lights stay on the Great Western Way.

Straight over the first roundabout (Blagrove) marked Town Centre A3102. Stay on the Great Western Way. Leave the Volvo Mazda garage on your left. After about a mile take the third exit at the next roundabout (Mannington) marked town centre to stay on the A3102 (Wootton Bassett Road). Stay on this road.

Leave Fish Brothers Peugeot to your left then the Toyota garage on your left and DFS to your right. Go under the railway bridge.

Straight over the traffic lights, leave the park to your left and then bear right at the mini roundabout and go up the hill (Kingshill Road) A4289. Third exit at the next mini roundabout and continue up Kingshill road A4289.

At the top of the hill bear left at the mini roundabout onto Bath Road stay on A4289. Straight over the mini roundabout with Eastcott Road (the Eastcott Roundabout). Stay on the A4289.

At the mini roundabout take the first exit onto Victoria Road. Leave the Post Office on your left. Take the first right into Union Row, the Victoria Public House is on the corner. The Christ Church will be straight in front of you and then first left into Bellevue Road where you see the sign for Albert Street.

At the mini roundabout bear right and go down the hill and join Drove Road B4006.

Then go past the Harvester public house on your left and just after the mini roundabout with Upham Road you will find Jessamine Cottage on your left.

Directions from J11 M5 -
Take the A417 towards Cirencester. Bypass Cirencester and join the A419. The A417 becomes the St Margaret bypass (Take care your Sat Nav probably has not been updated with the bypass, just go up the hill and straight on). Turn off onto the A4312 Oxford Road towards Swindon White Hart roundabout A4312 Swindon.

This becomes Slade Drive. This is a 30 mile per hour limit. Second exit at the next roundabout onto Drakes Way A4312. At the end of Drakes Way take the second exit (turn right) off the roundabout onto Queens Drive towards the County Ground.

At the next roundabout which is THE MAGIC ROUNDABOUT turn left (1st exit) sign posted B4259 Wroughton, Devizes, Old Town. Go straight over the lights and leave The Merlin to your right.

Go past Queens Park on your right. Just before the mini roundabout with Upham Road. Turn right into Jessamine Cottage

Public Transport Directions

Within easy reach of Swindon train and bus stations. All rail networks can be accessed easily from Swindon, being an original Brunel "railway town". Fast frequent trains run from London Paddington to Swindon and take approximately 1 hour.

How to get to Jessamine Cottage from the Railway Station

Take a taxi (cost about £5) or call Vcars 01793 701701 to Jessamine Cottage, 156 Drove Road or walk the two minutes to the 17 bus stop outside the bus station. Do not be tempted to jump on the 17 bus that goes from the railway station as it is going the wrong way.

You leave the main entrance of the railway station, cross the traffic lights to The Queens Tap and walk down Wellington Street.

At the bottom of Wellington Street, turn left into Manchester Road and you will see the bus station on the other side of the road. You need the number 17 going towards Park North.

The 17 bus shelter is just outide the station and has a visual display telling you when the next bus is due. This is never more than a few minutes.

The fare is £1.10 for adults (March 2010). The fare is FASTFARE which means they do not give you any change!

Ask the driver for the first Upham Road stop after Drove Road. When you get off you will see Jessamine Cottage just past the mini roundabout with Drove Road.

How to get to Jessamine Cottage from the Bus Station

Buses from London Victoria and Heathrow stop at Swindon on their way to Wales and the West Country. There are also buses from the North and other parts of England and Wales.

From the Bus station just go to the taxi stand outside and catch a taxi (about £5) or call Vcars on 01793 701701 or catch the no. 17 bus.

The fare is £1.10 for adults (March 2010). The fare is FASTFARE which means they do not give you any change!

The 17 bus shelter is just outide the station and has a visual dispaly telling you when the next bus is due. This is never more than a few minutes.

Ask the driver for the first Upham Road stop after Drove Road. When you get off you will see Jessamine Cottage just past the mini roundabout with Drove Road.