Dog-friendly stays in Sheffield

A converted grammar school on Leopold Square in the middle of Sheffield, five minutes from the station and the tram, and the only central hotel here with a published dog policy. The pet-friendly rooms are all on the lower ground floor with a door straight out to the courtyard, which matters at six in the morning in a city-centre hotel. Each dog stay includes a bed with washable covers, food and water bowls, treats, a toy and poo bags. Dogs are barred from the breakfast room, so breakfast is either in the bedroom or in the ground floor bar, and the hotel asks that dogs are on a lead anywhere in the public parts of the building and not left alone in the room for long.

A Victorian hall in twelve acres of its own grounds off Kenwood Road in Nether Edge, with a lake, woodland paths and lawns, ten minutes from the city centre and twenty from the Porter Valley. A set number of bedrooms are designated dog friendly and come with a bed, towels, a water bowl and treats waiting on arrival, and reception keeps a pit stop stocked with treats, water and poo bags. Dogs may go in the bar, on the alfresco terrace and anywhere in the grounds, but not in the Gallery Restaurant, so breakfast and dinner with the dog means eating in the bar. The hotel warns that some of the paths through the grounds are uneven and asks that dogs are kept away from the lake and the ducks.