Cotswolds Cold Aston
Greystones Cottage, Cold Aston
Independent pet-friendly review by Four Legged Guests · updated October 2026 · paw rating built from 2 verified guest reviews mentioning pets
Bring your dog if
- You want a whole-property rental - no shared lobbies or corridors to navigate with your dog
- You're basing yourself in Cold Aston / the Cotswolds and want a pet-friendly anchor for day trips
- The wider guest experience is strong - guests rate this 9.3/10 overall on booking platforms
Worth knowing
- Paw rating is based on 2 reviews - limited sample, treat as directional
- Pet fee: £40 per stay - research-verified; confirm at booking
How this review was built Evidence, sources, refresh cadence
- Evidence: 2 pet-mention guest reviews sourced from major booking platforms - guests who explicitly mentioned travelling with a dog. Each review is screened for pet-relevance, then judged for sentiment to compute the paw rating.
- Not a personal visit. We don't stay at every hotel we cover - we summarise patterns from real guest reviews, paraphrased and never quoted verbatim. Full standard on our editorial policy page.
- Wider context: The property has 49 guest reviews overall across booking platforms, averaging 9.3/10 - the paw rating reflects only the pet-mentioning subset.
- Last refreshed: October 2026. Policies and pricing drift; we re-check on a rolling basis. Confirm specifics with the property at the moment you book.
- How the paw rating works: Full detail on the methodology page, including the three verification gates and known limitations.
Pet policy at a glance
- Pet fee: £40 per stay
- Dogs are specifically listed as allowed (not all pet-friendly properties include cats - check directly if travelling with a non-canine pet).
- On-site pet amenities: pet bowls, blankets, doggy welcome hamper
- Dogs are not allowed on the beds or the furniture
- Dogs must not be left unattended in the cottage
- Guests are responsible for the safety of their dogs and for any damage the dogs cause
- Registered guide and assistance dogs are welcome in every one of the agency’s cottages
Pet-friendly summary
Cold Aston sits high in the Gloucestershire wolds, a cluster of honey-coloured stone houses on lanes most Cotswold traffic passes by. Greystones Cottage is one of them, a whole house let to one party at a time, with its own front door and a garden. That arrangement is what most dog owners are really after: no corridors to negotiate, no other guests to time your comings and goings around, and nowhere your dog needs to be on a lead indoors.
Dogs are specifically allowed, and the agency that lets the cottage publishes a dog charge of £40 per stay rather than a nightly rate, which works in your favour on a longer booking. That figure is set across the agency's cottages rather than on this one's own page, so confirm it for your dates. No weight limit or cap on numbers is published, so agree those details with the owners when you book. Dogs arrive to bowls, blankets and a welcome hamper of their own, and guests travelling with dogs describe an easy, unfussy welcome rather than a rigid set of rules.
Owners answer questions quickly by several accounts, and the house is consistently described as spotless and warmly furnished. Guests with nervous dogs have picked it out for exactly that reason - the village is quiet enough to have worked as a New Year bolt-hole away from fireworks, which is a useful signal if you travel with a sound-sensitive dog.
Walking is the main draw. Footpaths leave the village in several directions and the wider wolds are minutes away by car, so a full day out and a short last-thing-at-night circuit are both easy from the door.
Two things to plan around. The pub next door was closed for renovation through the middle of 2026, and guests arriving late have found nowhere in the village to eat, so check before you count on it for dinner. The house also has no washing machine, which tells against it for a longer stay with a muddy dog. And be clear about where you are booking: this is Cold Aston, not Bourton-on-the-Water, and guests have arrived expecting the latter.
Best suited to a group or family who want the whole house to themselves, value quiet over amenities, and are here to walk.
Highlights from pet-mentioning reviews
What reviewers travelling with dogs consistently noted about staying here.
- Whole house with its own garden
- Quiet village suits sound-sensitive dogs
- Footpaths leave from the front door
- Bowls, blankets and a dog welcome hamper
- £40 per stay rather than per night
- No washing machine for muddy paws
About this hotel
Greystones Cottage is a self-catering house in Cold Aston, a quiet Cotswold village in the Gloucestershire hills. The whole property is yours for the stay, with its own front door, garden and no shared corridors. Bourton-on-the-Water and Northleach are a short drive away, but the village itself stays sleepy, with footpaths running straight out into open countryside.
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Number 3 Greystones Cottage, Cold Aston, GL54 3BN