Whitbread Brewers Fayre Closure: Hessle Home Farm to Shut Permanently on March 8
Brewers Fayre has announced the permanent closure of its Home Farm pub and carvery on Ferriby Road in Hessle, with the venue set to shut from Sunday, 8 March 2026. The whitbread brewers fayre closure removes a long‑running local restaurant linked to the neighbouring hotel and signals further contraction of the chain’s estate.
Hessle Home Farm on Ferriby Road
The Home Farm site in Hessle, five miles from Kingston upon Hull, will close its doors on 8th March 2026. The venue, which originally opened in 1993 and has operated alongside an adjacent Premier Inn hotel under Whitbread ownership, has told regular customers about the change by email and published a message on its website.
Whitbread Brewers Fayre Closure and the March 8 timetable
The venue’s website carries a short statement: "Unfortunately, this restaurant will be permanently closing on 8th March 2026. The team would like to thank you for your custom over the years. " A marketing email from Brewers Fayre to customers adds that "From 8th March 2026, Brewers Fayre, Home Farm will no longer be a Brewers Fayre or part of the Whitbread group. " Those communications establish the date and the corporate decision that triggers the closure.
Premier Inn breakfast room change in Hessle
Whitbread has said the neighbouring Premier Inn will introduce a new breakfast room exclusively for hotel guests once the Brewers Fayre operation ends. The change is framed as a direct operational consequence: with the Home Farm restaurant leaving the Whitbread family, breakfast provision for staying guests will move into a dedicated hotel space rather than the existing shared restaurant.
Beefeater, The Kingswood offered as an alternative
In customer communications the chain pointed guests to an alternative Whitbread‑group restaurant nearby, Beefeater, The Kingswood in Hull. The marketing message apologised for inconvenience and highlighted that the Home Farm site will no longer be part of the Whitbread group from 8th March 2026.
Chain scale: 91 locations, 1990s peak and 2024 reductions
Brewers Fayre’s footprint has been reduced considerably over recent years. As of August last year the brand operated 91 locations across the UK, mostly attached to Premier Inn hotels. At its peak in the 1990s the chain had more than 280 sites. In 2024 Whitbread announced plans to sell 126 underperforming Beefeater and Brewers Fayre sites and convert a further 112 into hotel rooms; that programme is the broader context for individual closures such as Home Farm.
History and brand character
Whitbread launched the Brewers Fayre brand in 1979 to provide affordable, sit‑down family meals; the concept grew through the 1990s, becoming associated with large indoor soft‑play attractions known as Charlie Chalk Fun Factories. Brewers Fayre is widely recognised for family‑friendly dining and for menu staples described as "pub classics", including fish and chips, nachos, burgers, curries, loaded chips and Sunday carvery.
Historic sites: Old Nelson in Stroud and Brookers Oast in Tonbridge
The chain’s history includes notable individual pubs. The Old Nelson in Stroud is set in a Grade II‑listed building that was reportedly owned by a Spanish lord and has been a monastery and a boys' school before becoming a pub; local lore holds that the bricks were shipped from Spain. Another longstanding site named in coverage is Brookers Oast in Tonbridge, Kent.
What makes this notable is that the Home Farm closure is both a local loss — a community carvery present since 1993 — and part of an ongoing strategic reshaping of Whitbread’s restaurant estate that saw a reduction from the 1990s peak to 91 sites by last August. The immediate cause is the decision that Home Farm will cease to be part of the Whitbread group from 8th March 2026; the effect is the end of Brewers Fayre trading at that address and the repurposing of breakfast provision for hotel guests into a dedicated Premier Inn room.
Some contextual details are unclear in the provided context, such as the future ownership or use of the Home Farm premises after closure and the staffing outcome at the site. The communications from Brewers Fayre and the website message are limited to the closure date, the withdrawal from the Whitbread group, and the guidance that guests can use Beefeater, The Kingswood in Hull as an alternative.
