The Coach House Cafe

The woman rudely tossed my bank card onto the floor after forcefully inserting it into the card reader. Her Filipino husband added too much milk to my tea, which was surprising considering his Indonesian wife only drinks tea. This behavior is disrespectful and not in line with English heritage. The restaurant should employ English Heritage-minded, intelligent, polite, non-violent, God-fearing staff.

We bought 2 elderflower bottle drinks and 2 packs of sandwiches and bill came to £17.10. There is only a very limited breakfast menu served all day. lovely outdoor seating and indoor area.

We called in for icecreams on a warm afternoon. The cafe has benefitted from the recent sprucing up of the park, and the seating both inside and out is attractive and well kept. The place was spotlessly clean, the staff were warmly welcoming. Prices are reasonable. Hihjly recommended.

Come here for coffee and cake a lot while walking round Marble Hill Park/St Margarets riverside. Very friendly people with tables outside. Did good value soup, sandwiches, cakes etc for breakfast, lunches, teas. Very dog friendly. Today I was told it had closed down as English Heritage want to run it themselves after doing it up. The owner gave me a free coffee anyway as she was clearing the equipment and stock out. Such a shame as the tenants put their heart and soul into it Eng Heritage do not run their sites well (except Stonehenge) and still have the Office of Works civil service attitude. Marble Hill House is rarely open, no events, they wanted at one point to get rid of the sports fields there...…I bet they will ban dogs and try to make it into a pricey poncey place that will deter the locals who use the park as an amenity. They should have done it up but kept the current tenants.

I took my mother and inlaws out for a walk through Marble Hill on sunday, a place I would frequent as a child as it was so beautiful and so well kept. Now it looks a mess. Marble Hill House is crying out for a lick of paint and there are no visitors as they are charing over £8 entrance fee. The bins around the park are chipped and old and there are areas of land which are overgrown and unattractive to the eye. The toilets in the stable areas are dirty, no toilet paper and a dribble of water from the tap. The cafe wow, what a gem of a place if someone really were to smarten it up. Instead it has tired 70s pictures on the wall, when there are numerous artists who would be happy to showcase their work. The tables were scruffy, the pathway covered in leaves, this is July! The staff were confused and chaotic. When I asked for a cream tea for my mother after waiting 5 minutes while other members of the staff chatted in the back, it was just shoved on the plate with a pot of jam and cream. I actually had to ask for the tea! The cakes on the counter were exposed to bacteria and not particularly imaginative. We ordered our food at 4.30pm and spent £16.00 on just a cream tea, coffee and a pot of tea and 2 slices of mediocre cake. By 4.45pm, the broom and cluttering started, we could barely hear ourselves. But was expected to endure this noise as the staff clearly wanted to go home despite the fact we were still eating. Not a place I would care to visit again. Walls, door frames, shutters, all dying for a link of paint. Really don't get what is happening with Marble Hill.