Welcombe Hotel, Stratford: Owner in Administration

Updated 10 November 2026: the company that trades as the Welcombe Hotel, CD Welcombe OpCo Limited, also went into administration on 2 November, with the same Kroll administrators, according to a second Gazette notice. Read the update.

The company that owns the Welcombe Hotel on Warwick Road, Stratford-upon-Avon, has gone into administration. Two administrators from the advisory firm Kroll were appointed on Monday 2 November, according to a notice in The Gazette, the official public record, published on Thursday 5 November.

The company is CD Welcombe Propco Limited. The notice lists its business as hotels and its trading address as the Welcombe Hotel, and gives the High Court case number CR-2026-008470. The joint administrators are Geoffrey Bouchier and Benjamin Wiles of Kroll Advisory in London.

Is the Welcombe Hotel still open?

The hotel’s own website was still taking bookings for rooms, tables, spa days and golf on the morning of Friday 6 November, and it lists Christmas events. Neither the notice nor the website says what administration means for guests, staff or bookings. Administration is a form of insolvency in which outside administrators take control of a company, usually to try to sell the business or its property, and a hotel often keeps trading while that happens.

If you have a booking, a wedding or an event at the hotel, the Gazette notice gives Kroll’s contact details for the administrators. We will update this story when more is known.

The company’s history

Companies House records show the company was set up in 2006 as Menzies Hotels Property No. 16 Limited, became Hallmark Hotels (Stratford) Limited in 2015 and took its current name in June 2023. Its latest filed accounts are for 2024. The name “Propco” usually means a company that owns a property rather than runs the business inside it, and the company that trades as the hotel is CD Welcombe OpCo Limited, which is also in administration (see the update above).

The Welcombe is a Grade II listed Neo-Jacobean mansion on the edge of town, with 85 bedrooms, a spa and its own golf course. It is one of Stratford’s best-known wedding and conference venues. Our Welcombe Hotel listing has its facilities, and our where to stay guide covers the rest of Stratford’s hotels.