The White Hart Hotel hosts board meetings, training days, company dinners and small weddings for up to 45 seated guests or 70 standing, with 28 bedrooms upstairs for guests who stay the night. It is a family-run, Grade II-listed Georgian inn on The Square in Moretonhampstead, a small market town inside Dartmoor National Park in Devon.
Seminars and company events
Meetings take place in the Function Suite, at the back of the building. The suite has its own entrance and its own toilets, so a working group can come and go without crossing the bar, yet it connects directly to the bar and the rest of the hotel when the day turns into drinks or dinner. The hotel sets the room out as a boardroom, a U-shape or a hollow square. Free Wi-Fi is included, and a projector, a screen, pens and notepaper are available on request. Tea, coffee, water and juices are served to each delegate. An events team plans the day ahead with the organiser, from the layout to the refreshments, and delegates who stay are offered reduced room rates.
Weddings and receptions
The hotel sells tailored wedding packages and presents itself as a wedding venue as well as an inn. Its wedding page speaks of a welcome for up to 48 guests, and the 28 bedrooms let much of a small wedding party stay under one roof. Many couples marry at St Andrew's Church, the 12th-century parish church of Moretonhampstead, then hold the reception at the hotel. The site does not mention a licence for ceremonies on the premises. The Function Suite also hosts birthdays, anniversaries and celebration-of-life gatherings, and private tables can be booked in the restaurant for smaller dinners.
Rooms and capacities
The Function Suite is the one event room the hotel describes. It is a bright room with historic character, seating up to 45 guests or holding 70 standing. In summer, capacity rises to 90 when the outdoor seating and the pool table room are added to the suite. Private dining takes place in the restaurant.
Accommodation
The hotel lists 28 ensuite bedrooms in several categories: Superior Rooms, Superior Family Rooms, Standard Rooms, rooms in The Mews and dog-friendly rooms. This makes it possible to keep a two-day meeting or a wedding weekend in one place, with breakfast served in the hotel from 8 am.
Catering
Food is cooked in-house by the hotel's chefs, with local produce. For meetings the choice runs from a buffet to afternoon tea or a more formal sit-down meal, and wedding menus are built to order with the couple. The restaurant serves breakfast from 8 am, lunch from noon and dinner until 8:45 pm, with a Sunday menu, and the bar takes last orders at 11:30 pm.
History and setting
The building has around 250 years of history as a hostelry, with heavy beams and open fireplaces in the public rooms. It stands on the town square, with the open moorland of Dartmoor around the town, and the lounge still hosts local evenings such as open mic nights.
Getting there
Moretonhampstead is reached by road from the A30 or the A38. The hotel has no car park of its own: two pay-and-display car parks are within walking distance, the nearest on Station Road, less than 100 meters from the door.
