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The company that trades as the Welcombe Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon has gone into administration, as well as the company that owns the building. A notice in The Gazette, the official public record, published on Tuesday 10 November, says administrators were appointed to CD Welcombe OpCo Limited on Monday 2 November. That is the same day as the property company we reported on last week.
It means the Welcombe Hotel administration now covers both companies: the one that owns the Warwick Road mansion and the one whose trading name is the hotel.
What the notice says
The notice gives the company’s trading name as The Welcombe Hotel and its principal trading address as the hotel on Warwick Road, CV37 0NR. The joint administrators are Geoffrey Bouchier and Benjamin Wiles of Kroll Advisory in London, the same two named for the property company, CD Welcombe Propco Limited. The two High Court cases have neighbouring numbers: CR-2026-008471 for the operating company and CR-2026-008470 for the property company.
Companies House records show CD Welcombe OpCo was set up on 18 October 2021 and has a registered office in Hemel Hempstead. Its latest filed accounts are for 2024. When we checked on the morning of 10 November, its Companies House page did not yet show the administration; the Gazette notice is the official record of the appointment.
Is the Welcombe Hotel still open?
The hotel’s website was still taking bookings for rooms, tables, spa days and tee times on the morning of Tuesday 10 November, and still lists Christmas and other events. It says nothing about the administration, and neither the notice nor the website says what it means for staff, guests or bookings.
In an administration, licensed insolvency practitioners take control of a company, often to try to sell the business or its property. A hotel can keep trading while that happens. If you have a stay, a wedding or an event booked, the Gazette notice gives Kroll’s contact details for the administrators.
What happens next
Administrators usually set out their proposals to creditors within eight weeks of being appointed, and those are filed at Companies House. We will update this story when they are, or when the hotel or Kroll says more.
The Welcombe is a Grade II listed Neo-Jacobean mansion about a mile from the town centre, with a spa and its own golf course, and is one of Stratford’s best-known wedding venues. Our Welcombe Hotel listing has its facilities, and our where to stay guide covers the town’s other hotels.
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Alex Harrington
Alex Harrington grew up in Stratford-upon-Avon and runs What's up, Stratford? as an independent guide to the town.
