Lodging Description: In a quiet, leafy setting on the edge of Crowthorne village, a warm and friendly welcome from the hotel team always awaits you at the Dial House Hotel. Once the private home of J. Alfred Hardcastle, a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, the hotel gets its name from the rare, vertical declining sundial that he himself designed and installed on the front of the house in the early 1900’s, and which is still there today.