hotelThe Hotel Inspector · Season 14, Episode 6 · Aired July 10, 2018
The Grove Arms
Ludwell, England
Yes. This one is still open.
What happened after
16th-century Grade II listed country inn/pub; official site live with published weekly opening hours, no closure markers.
What happened on the show
The series 14 record on the Grove Arms in Ludwell is a bare line, describing Alex Polizzi guiding a pub that had gone off the rails. That phrase points to an operation that had lost its way rather than one facing a single specific fault, the kind of general drift the show often addressed. A sixteenth-century Grade II listed country inn on Ludwell Hill in Wiltshire, it had the historic character but needed direction. The episode summary preserves little more, so the honest frame is verifiable rather than reconstructed: a struggling listed Wiltshire pub that had gone off course and called in the inspector during her fourteenth series in 2018. The off-the-rails village pub aired in July 2018, and the listed Wiltshire inn has since been put back on track as a stable local.
After the cameras left
The Grove Arms is open and trading, a sixteenth-century Grade II listed country inn and pub on Ludwell Hill in Wiltshire. Its official site is live with published weekly opening hours and functional table-booking and stay links as of 2026, with no closure markers. The pub that had gone off the rails, in the episode's phrase, appears to have been put back on track and kept going as a stable village inn, one of the more straightforward series 14 survivals, still trading on the character of a genuinely old building years after Polizzi's visit.
Sources
Confidence: high. Last checked 2026-07-19.