Whitbread Brewers Fayre Closure: Hessle Home Farm to Shut on March 8
whitbread brewers fayre closure has been confirmed for the Home Farm pub and carvery in Hessle, with the Ferriby Road venue set to close on Sunday, March 8, 2026. The company has notified regular customers by email and posted a message on the restaurant's website.
Whitbread Brewers Fayre Closure at Home Farm
Brewers Fayre has advised that Home Farm will be "permanently closing on 8th March 2026, " and the restaurant's website carries a message thanking customers for their custom over the years. A marketing email sent to regular customers states: "From 8th March 2026, Brewers Fayre, Home Farm will no longer be a Brewers Fayre or part of the Whitbread group. We apologise for any inconvenience this will cause. " The email adds: "For guests staying in the on-site Premier Inn, there will be a new breakfast room exclusively for hotel guests, " and points customers toward another Whitbread family restaurant, Beefeater, The Kingswood in Hull.
Home Farm on Ferriby Road in Hessle
The Home Farm site sits on Ferriby Road in Hessle, about five miles from Kingston upon Hull. The pub and carvery first opened in 1993 and has been operated by Whitbread alongside the adjacent Premier Inn hotel since then. The firm has confirmed the closure date as Sunday, March 8, 2026, and has used both the website and direct marketing emails to inform regular patrons.
Premier Inn changes for guests
With the departure of Brewers Fayre from the Home Farm site, the neighbouring Premier Inn will reconfigure arrangements for its guests. The company has said the hotel will operate its own exclusive breakfast room going forward, separating breakfast service for staying guests from wider restaurant trade that previously used the Brewers Fayre facility.
Brewers Fayre's identity and menu
Brewers Fayre has long positioned itself as a family-friendly, value-led pub and carvery operator, often featuring children's play areas. The chain is known for a menu of "pub classics" such as fish and chips, nachos, burgers, curries, loaded chips and Sunday carvery. The Home Farm message and customer emails make clear the site will stop being part of that family of restaurants from the March closure date.
Network size, history and 2024 restructuring
As of August last year, Brewers Fayre operated 91 locations across the UK, primarily linked to Premier Inn hotels. At its peak in the 1990s the brand had more than 280 sites. In 2024, Whitbread announced plans to sell 126 underperforming Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites and to convert a further 112 locations into hotel rooms, a restructuring that significantly reduced the chain's footprint. The whitbread brewers fayre closure at Home Farm aligns with that broader reshaping.
Brand origins and notable sites
Whitbread launched the Brewers Fayre brand in 1979. The chain later became associated in the 1990s with large indoor play areas known as Charlie Chalk Fun Factories. The network includes historically significant venues: the Old Nelson site in Stroud, Gloucestershire, occupies a Grade II-listed building and has been described as originally owned by a Spanish lord, with bricks allegedly shipped from Spain; it later served as a monastery and then a boys' school before becoming a pub. Brookers Oast in Tonbridge, Kent, is noted in company material as a well-known site, though further detail is unclear in the provided context.
What makes this notable is the timing: the closure comes after Whitbread's 2024 announcement to reduce and repurpose parts of its restaurant portfolio, and it follows decades of the brand operating alongside Premier Inn hotels. Customers who used Home Farm have been directed toward nearby alternatives within the Whitbread family, while the hotel next door will transition to a dedicated breakfast room for guests once the restaurant ceases trading.
