Georgian style Guest House Bed and Breakfast Accommodation set in a quiet location just a short walk from Dorchester’s town centre amenities

Comprising of 7 letting bedrooms

One 2-roomed suite on the ground floor with full disabled access and facilities

Six further bedrooms on the first floor comprising of:

1 Double with shower room en suite

1 Twin with shower room en suite

2 Larger Super-king size Double or Twin – with ‘zip and link’ beds. Both with shower room en suite

2 Singles, each with its own private shower room just across the landing

Full further information and current tariff etc can be found on our website: www.aquilaheights.co.uk

Pre-Arrival at Aquila Heights Guest House

• Email or Telephone booking:
• Email: Telephone: 01305267145: •Mobile: 0774 894 7610
• Website text can be enlarged via Internet explorer
• Access Statement available in a print version in standard or enlarged print on request

• Full Travel Information available on request

• Links can be found on our website: www.aquilaheights.co.uk

• Web links to most visitor attractions. Places to go; Sights to see: Venues to visit.

• Full Hyperlinked version is available for advanced planning by email on request
• Guests with serious visual or aural impairment must be accompanied to ensure their safety

Arrival & Car Parking Facilities

• Our tarmac surfaced Car Park is adjacent to the house
• Some areas of the car park do slope towards the road at the front

• Assistance with luggage is offered to every guest on arrival

• Approach to entrance is tarmac changing to concrete
• Contact details are prominently displayed on outside signage

• Day and late night doorbells are both in the vestibule

• A lower doorbell is positioned on the fire escape door adjacent to our car park
• Distance from car park to main entrance: 8 metres

Main Entrance & Reception

• One entrance to the front

• Second entrance side door leading to a long low metalled ramp for wheelchair users. No steps
• The main front entrance has one step up plus a door frame lip leading into the vestibule entrance then one step at the main door into the house

• There is no manned reception

• Both doors open inwards leading to an original polished pine boarded floor hall with a door mat followed by a large central Chinese rug at the base of the stairs ahead
• Assistance with luggage etc is offered to every guest on arrival
• A pad and pen can be available on request
• Lighting is bright but dimmed during the night
• Entrance hall shaped around the main stairs leading on the left to Bedroom 1 and right to the cloakroom
• Guest fridge in the hall has chilled fresh milk for bedroom use 24/7

Public Areas - General (Internal)

• All public areas are on the ground floor

• All doors and frames are white in contrast to the hallways’ yellow walls

• Sage green carpeting throughout the house
• Lighting throughout is bright but lowered during the night
• We have no lift

Public Areas - WC
Ground floor WC cloakroom with a lift and drop-down hand rail (to the left of the toilet - facing)

Breakfast Room and Guest Lounge

• Both are situated with doors facing on either side of the hall on the ground floor
• There are five tables in the Breakfast Room of varying size and shape. Two are of a different height,
• Three breakfast tables can be linked for larger groups to dine together
• Special dietary requirements are usually available or can be arranged prior to arrival
• There is a buffet area for cereals, fresh fruit, fruit juices, yoghurts etc in addition to our waitress service

• Our extensive Breakfast Menu is also available in German

Door Widths

• Front door: 81cm

• All other rooms: 77cm

• All other en suites and shower room: 67cm

Stairs

Main Stairs:

15 steps in total - 12 stairs up followed by a 180 degree turn half landing then 3 more

• Width: 81cm

• Tread depth: 25cm

• Step height: 16cm

Fire Escape Stairs:

14 steps in total - 4 stairs down followed by a 90 degree turn half landing then 10 stairs to fire escape door adjacent to our car park

• Width: 77cm

• Tread depth: 21cm

• Step height: 19cm

Bedrooms

Bedroom 1 - additional facilities:

• Special carpet underlay for easier wheelchair movement

• Higher than normal and firm edged double bed for ease of wheelchair transfer. Space under the bed to facilitate a hoist. Height: 58cm.

• Guests requiring a greater manoeuvrability area around the double bed and staying 3 nights or more are able to request that the furniture to be rearranged to suit individual requirement. Moving the double bed etc into the adjacent Garden Room offers a much wider space on both sides of the bed but unfortunately as this is a purpose made bed it is therefore extra heavy and a major upheaval that cannot be done single handed. Regrettably, moving furniture WILL NOT BE POSSIBLE without notice and prior arrangement.

• Single bed height: 54cm

First floor bedrooms

• All bedrooms are carpeted

• All beds are 54cm high

• There is a central light in each bedroom
• Bedside lights and task lights in each bedroom

• Tea, Coffee and biscuits hospitality tray with a cordless kettle in each bedroom

• Herbal and Fruit tea sachets are for self selection from a large jar on the landing

• Colour Televisions in every bedroom have remote control

• We do not have telephones in the bedrooms

Shower Rooms

• En suite shower room with safety flooring plus an additional basin in the adjoining carpeted dressing room

• En suite door width: 90cm

• Level-deck wheel-in shower with a fixed fold down seat with two sturdy, rubber-cupped legs at the front

• Disabled height toilet with no seat lid. Toilet height: 48cm

• Hand rails: Strategically position in the shower

Fixed to left of toilet (facing)

Lift and drop-down to right of toilet (facing)

• Hand basin is small and at the required height for wheelchair accessibility

First floor bedrooms

• Rooms 2, 3, 5 and 5 each have an en-suite shower room with a walk in shower and vinyl flooring

• Rooms 4 and 7 (singles) each have their own private shower room just across the landing with walk in shower cubicles. A wrapped dressing gown is also provided

• Room 4 has vinyl flooring and a walk-in shower cubicle

• Room 7 has safety flooring and a walk-in shower cubicle with a shower seat (identical to Room 1)

Fire Security

• Full house fire alarm system fitted

• The fire alarm is a warbler

• Sprinkler system to ground floor

• Second stairway leading down to fire escape door

• Hallways, stairs and both sides of external doors have battery back-up emergency lighting
• All external bedroom and communal room doors are half-hour fire doors
• Hand rails line both sides of both stair ways between ground and first floors

• An un-latched fire door / smoke barrier door is positioned midway between Shower Room 4 and Shower Room 7

• During the night this door is always in the closed position and is designed to close automatically in the event of a power cut or an emergency

Laundry and Shoe Cleaning facilities

• 24 hour-return laundry service is available on request – No charge is made for guests if staying 5 days or more

• Irons and ironing boards are kept in our ground floor cloakroom

• Wet clothing and boots can be dried overnight in our utility room

• Shoe & boot cleaning materials, brushes, polish, dubbin etc are also kept in our ground floor cloakroom

Mobility

• Accessible taxis can be arranged and booked by telephone
• All information can be sent or e mailed for advanced arrangements

• Shop-Mobility is located in Charles Street, Dorchester

• Wheelchairs and disabled equipment can be temporarily loaned from the Red Cross office behind Agricultural House in Acland Road - open weekday mornings only. DT1 1EF Tel: 01305 215959

Grounds and Gardens

• Flower beds line the path from our car park to the entrance and beyond
• Our enclosed, secluded garden and patio can be reached via the concrete ramp by the front entrance

• Central lawn with flower beds of flowering shrubs and trees

• Garden furniture is always out and additional available

• Front hedge provides shelter for the birds and privacy for breakfasting in the dining room

Additional Information
• Whilst guests are welcome to smoke on the patio and in our secluded enclosed garden, in compliance with the law, we are a totally non smoking establishment
• All rooms can receive wireless internet access using our NETGEAR wireless system

Contact Information

• Resident proprietor: Joan - (Mrs Joan Cox)
• Address:
44 Maiden Castle Road
Dorchester, Dorset. DT1 2ES
• Telephone: 01305 267145: Mobile: 0774 894 7610
• Email: aquila.heights@tiscali.co.uk
• Website: www.aquilaheights.co.uk