The Surrey country estate of the press baron Lord Beaverbrook, reimagined as a hotel without losing its house-party feel. Japanese garden, Michelin restaurant, screening room.

A Georgian country house on the Moray Firth with a walled garden that has fed its kitchen for two centuries. Restored without losing its softness.

A country house hotel set in 240 acres of parkland. Polo on the grounds, Michelin-starred cooking and interiors of genuine warmth.

A Georgian manor on a 400-acre biodynamic estate in Hampshire. Skye Gyngell in the kitchen, a working farm at the gate, and interiors of a quietness that's hard to overstate.

A Lakeland country house above Windermere, holding the Lake District's quietest design register. Long views, a serious kitchen, and a fell at the back door.

A Victorian Gothic mansion on the banks of the Thames. Grand in scale, warm in feeling, with interiors that take their history seriously.

A sixteenth-century inn in a quiet Cotswold town, reopened in 2022. Open fires, a candlelit dining room cooking over flame, and beamed bedrooms with roll-top baths up in the eaves.

A Cotswold pub-with-rooms by the Country Creatures team. Open fires, a serious kitchen, and the kind of rooms you don't want to leave on a Sunday morning.

A small family of kitchen-garden hotels — restaurants with rooms built around a walled garden and a 25-mile menu. One near Bath, one in the Cotswolds, and several more across the south of England.

A working estate turned quietly extraordinary hotel. Arts and crafts interiors, a kitchen garden that feeds the restaurant, a spa built from Cotswold stone.

Twenty-two miles of private Suffolk countryside, a Georgian hall and estate cottages. The kind of place that changes how you feel about England.

A fifteenth-century Welsh longhouse turned the first five-star hotel in south-west Wales. Food-led, dog-friendly, and set in twenty-six acres below the Preseli Hills.

A regenerative farm and retreat high in the Marshwood Vale, above the Jurassic Coast. Flint-and-stone barns, shepherd's huts, wood fires and long views.

Less a hotel than a working Somerset estate — orchards, walled gardens, a deer park and a cyder cellar — with forty-three rooms across a Georgian house and its farmyard.