A Guest House and Restaurant in Rural Devon

The view from the entrance door of Glebe Home is of rolling, ruched-up fields, hidden ha-has, evergreen woodland, historic farmsteads and their flocks—and a gardener driving a sit-on mower, fastidiously clipping the entrance garden. It’s a scene that hasn’t modified in all of the years Hugo Visitor has identified it.

Hugo grew up on this Space of Excellent Pure Magnificence earlier than leaving for college and a life in London. In 2020, when his dad and mom advised promoting up, the lure of the valley proved too robust. Hugo and his spouse, Olive, returned to rural Devon with a view to remodeled his childhood dwelling right into a guesthouse and restaurant. The couple had spent a while overseas, discovering inspiration in Italian “agrotourismos”, working farms with lodging and a meals providing that showcases the perfect of native produce. Hugo had additionally spent the earlier two years working as a chef in a few of London’s prime eating places. With the world in lockdown, the couple started reworking the 15 acres surrounding Glebe Home, planting a vegetable and slicing backyard, creating an area for pigs and chickens, and changing an previous storage into an on-site bakery and temperature-controlled growing older room for salumi manufacturing, a craft honed by Hugo in Italy.