What Happened to The Hill House After The Hotel Inspector?
The Hotel Inspector, Season 7 Ross-on-Wye, West Midlands
Current status
As of October 2026, The Hill House has closed per the Food Standards Agency hygiene register (October 26, 2026), reviewed by our team on October 26, 2026 and cross-checked against Tripadvisor; not yet independently confirmed through direct contact with the business.
What the source shows: The Food Standards Agency hygiene-rating register, checked 2026-10-26, lists no establishment at The Hill House, Howle Hill or anywhere in postcode HR9 5ST (every Herefordshire guest house serving food is registered there); Google Maps has no listing for the premises; the Tripadvisor listing is unclaimed and its most recent stay is dated February 2024; the guesthouse's own website has not changed since 2023 (Wayback Machine captures 2023-06-07 to 2026-04-19 are identical). No source reports a reopening. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 7, Episode 2
- Aired
- Address Howle Hill, Ross-on-Wye HR9 5ST
- Website howlinghillhouse.com
- Show map
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What happened after The Hotel Inspector?
The Hotel Inspector (Channel 5) featured The Hill House in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, in an episode that aired on 25 April 2011 (series 7, episode 2). TheTVDB's episode page describes a couple's inn with strong grounds and locally sourced food whose trade was poor, and it asks whether Alex Polizzi's ideas could improve its fortunes. The show's episode list on Wikipedia calls it a B&B that had been affected by numerous DIY experiments and says Polizzi helped the couple turn it around.
Two pages found while looking for the property may or may not describe the same business. A blog post dated 21 October 2020 on albarclay.blog describes a large old hillside house called Hill House in Ross, with views toward Monmouthshire and Wales, and links to howlinghillhouse.com. That website calls the property The Hill House Guest House and gives an address at Howle Hill, Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5ST; it names no owners, shows no 2025 or 2026 dates, and says only that the house has updates every year. Neither the blog post nor the website mentions The Hotel Inspector or Alex Polizzi, and the blog post refers to a single resident rather than a couple, so nothing read ties either page to the 2011 episode.
A Google Maps lookup on the featured name returned The House in the Hills in Llanigon (HR3 5RJ), which is a different name in a different town, so it was not used. Because no source read confirms the featured property's street address or its trading position after the broadcast, the entry carries no address or coordinates.
The episode
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Sources we checked
- TheTVDB https://thetvdb.com/series/the-hotel-inspector/episodes/4081447
- Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_Hotel_Inspector_episodes
- albarclay.blog https://albarclay.blog/2020/10/21/hill-house-in-ross-tired-blog
- howlinghillhouse.com https://www.howlinghillhouse.com
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