Dumbleton Hall

A Life Lived Grand, The Golden Age of an English Country House

How do you bring a modern guest entertainment system into a 19th-century country house — without it looking like you tried too hard?

The Hotel

Dumbleton Hall is a golden limestone manor house set in 19 acres of gardens, woodland, and private lake on the border of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire. Positioned between Evesham and Tewkesbury, with views across the Vale of Evesham to the Cotswold escarpment, it offers stunning views of the English countryside.

The property has recently undergone a careful, high-investment restoration — returning it, in the hotel's own words, to Life Lived Grand. The result is a house that balances its considerable heritage with renewed ambition: serious food, individually designed rooms, and a guest experience rooted in the traditions of the English country house.

Dumbleton Hall's 32 guest rooms include standard doubles, feature rooms, and suites, each individually styled and carrying a distinct character. Several rooms feature four-poster beds; all have views over the gardens, lake, or surrounding landscape. The property also operates as a wedding and events venue, with capacity for up to 100 guests across three licensed function suites.

A property of this character demands technology that earns its place. The in-room entertainment system needed to meet modern guest expectations — streaming, casting, PMS integration — while sitting quietly within rooms where the architecture, not the screen, does the talking.

Airwave delivered a fully integrated guest entertainment system built around the Uniguest GRE platform — a CMS-driven interface providing guests with a clean, branded on-screen environment from the moment they arrive.

The television estate comprises 32 Samsung commercial hospitality displays across two screen sizes, specified to suit the varying room configurations throughout the property:

• 18 x Samsung 50" HBU800 hospitality displays — deployed in larger rooms and suites
• 14 x Samsung 43" BU800 hospitality displays — deployed in standard and smaller room configurations

All displays carry a three-year commercial warranty as standard, and are specified for the demands of a hospitality environment.

Across the 32 rooms, two bracket configurations were deployed to reflect the varied nature of Dumbleton Hall's individually styled interiors:

• Flat-to-wall brackets in 25 rooms — providing a clean, low-profile installation appropriate to the character of the property
• Articulated brackets in 7 rooms — accommodating room layouts where viewing angle flexibility was required

The Uniguest GRE platform provides guests with a unified, hotel-branded interface giving access to live TV, hotel information, and digital services from a single home environment. The platform was configured with full casting capability, enabling guests to stream their own content — Netflix, Disney+, Prime, and beyond — securely and directly to the room screen, with credentials cleared automatically at checkout.

The system was also fully integrated with Dumbleton Hall's Property Management System (PMS), enabling guest-specific personalisation, personalised welcome screens on arrival, and streamlined operational management for the hotel team.

The Outcome

Airwave delivered a complete, professionally installed guest entertainment system across all 32 rooms — on time and without disruption to a live hotel environment undergoing an active period of restoration and relaunch.

Guests have access to a full entertainment portfolio: a clean, hotel-branded interface, live TV, their own streaming services via casting, and a personalised welcome experience connected to the property's PMS. The hotel has a system it can manage remotely and efficiently, supported by Airwave's ongoing service agreement.

The installation reflects what Airwave does routinely at properties of this character — specifying the right hardware, adapting installation solutions to the demands of a building that was never designed with technology in mind, and delivering a result that works first time and stays out of the way.