THE owners of a top north Cotswolds pub have decided to call time on the business.

Leo Brooke-Little and his wife, leading chef Sonya Kidney, are selling the Churchill Arms in Paxford, near Chipping Campden.

The 17th Century Grade II listed pub, a favourite haunt of Sunday Times food critic and filmmaker Michael Winner, is in the process of being bought by Enterprise Inns, a leased and tenanted pub company.

The Solihull firm, which is hoping to exchange contracts by the end of May, is looking for somebody to take over the pub, on which a 25-year lease is being sold for £90,000, with an initial annual rent of £52,000.

The Churchill, which has an annual turnover of £450,000, regularly gets rave reviews in the national press for its food and was once named as one of the top 10 places to eat in the country. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand for good value quality food.

Mr Brooke-Little and Ms Kidney are selling the pub, which they have run for 11 years, to spend more time with their children Heidi, 12, and Tyler, nine.

The couple are moving to Oxfordshire and plan to set up an outside catering and event planning business.

"It's time for a change in our lives," said Ms Kidney.

Enterprise Inns spokesman Vicky Averis said the company was unable to comment as contracts had not yet been exchanged.