Kington Langley, Wiltshire. A house Inigo dates to 1680, built for the native gentry, afterwards a silk-weaving factory and then a care home, bought and restored by Matt and Gaby Harvey with the British studio Barlow & Barlow and opened in July 2022 with twelve bedrooms. Six more followed in a lodge; the house now lists eighteen, in ten acres of walled garden and woodland. It is let whole, and it is not a hotel.
The house
Inigo, writing on 3 August 2022, dates the building to 1680 and says it was put up for the native gentry; it later became a silk-weaving factory and then a care home, and it was sold out of that institutional use. The listed fabric survived it — Sleeper notes an original eighteenth-century fireplace in the Hearth Room and a shell motif that had sat above the front door. Matt and Gaby Harvey bought it and brought in Barlow & Barlow, the studio run by Lucy Barlow with her husband Joshua Sear, whose brief, Barlow says, was to be sympathetic to the Georgian history and to restore a house that “was in a terrible state”.
The trade press announced it on 21 June 2022 as a twelve-bedroom house opening the following month, with whole-house takeovers, in-house chefs, three lounge spaces and an attached events wing, Kilvert Hall, holding up to two hundred. It opened in July 2022. By November 2022 Barlow was describing six new bedrooms and a lodge that was “now open”; the house today lists “18 bedrooms — 12 in the main house, plus 6 in the Lodge”, in ten acres of walled gardens and private woodland. Inigo put the letting model in a sentence: “a place where you take all the rooms, not just one.”
What distinguishes it
It is taken whole, or not at all Inigo describes Kin House as “a place where you take all the rooms, not just one”, and the trade press reported it at opening as offering whole house takeovers with in-house chefs. The house’s own pages say only that it is “Available for private hire”. There are eighteen bedrooms to take: twelve in the main house and six in the Lodge.
It was a care home before it was this Inigo records the sequence: built in 1680 for the native gentry, then a silk-weaving factory, then a care home, then sold. Restoration took, in the trade press’s words, “over the past year” before the July 2022 opening. Very little in this volume has come back from institutional use.
The listing was recorded two ways, and the statutory list settles it The house’s own site calls it Grade II*; the hospitality trade press of 21 June 2022, Sleeper of 22 June 2022 and Inigo of 3 August 2022 each call it Grade II. The National Heritage List for England carries it as The Greathouse, Kington Langley, entry 1022321, listed on 20 December 1960 at grade II* and described as a house of the late seventeenth century extended in 1910. Three accounts agreeing is not an authority; the list is the authority, and the house was right about itself.
The bedroom count grew by half after opening It opened in July 2022 with twelve guestrooms, as both Sleeper and the trade press reported. On 18 November 2022 Lucy Barlow spoke of “Six new bedrooms” and a Lodge that was “now open”. The house now lists eighteen. The 2022 figure and the present one are both correct, at different dates.
A party wing for two hundred, attached to a house that sleeps a household Kilvert Hall, built on to the side of the house, takes up to two hundred people for weddings, launches and receptions, against eighteen bedrooms and ten acres of walled garden and private woodland. The proportion is deliberate: the sleeping house is small and the entertaining space is not.
The single traveller, and the couple. There is no room to book — the unit is the house, and the house is set up for a group that fills eighteen bedrooms and uses a two-hundred-capacity hall. It is also not for anyone who wants a hotel’s front desk and anonymity: Kin is a private house let to one party at a time, in a village on the edge of Kington Langley.
Signature rooms and dates
Competitive landscape
Sources
What the entry rests on, read 13 October 2026. Each reference records the facts it supports, so a disputed line can be traced to the account it came from.