‘All kinds of interesting art and quirky touches’ bring cheer to this lively modern hotel, which sprawls across three Georgian town houses on busy North Parade.

‘There’s plenty to look at’ in this ‘eclectic, imaginative’ hotel, say visitors in 2017, ‘from prize-winning artwork to collections of glass, Victorian calling cards and Beswick dogs.’

There’s a ‘lovely, informal atmosphere’ at this ‘friendly’ pub-with-rooms, down the street from the old, stone-built village church.

A total revamp of this 16th-century pub-with-rooms, in a village on the edge of the Somerset Levels, has exposed stone walls, left wooden floors bare and unveiled patchwork tiling, resulting in a contemporary, rustic-chic look throughout.

‘All very welcoming’, this is today a ‘nearly faultless’ B&B where guests are greeted with a ‘generous tea’ on arrival.

Amid the sublime sweep of a Grade I listed Georgian crescent, two converted town houses combine as one luxury hotel affording ‘magical vistas’ over lawns and public parkland.

In a medieval village in Lorna Doone country, this ‘well-managed’ 15th-century coach inn overlooking National Trust parkland is owned by Anne and Nigel Way.

Picture postcard it may be, but there is nothing twee about this 15th-century farmhouse, ‘beautifully restored, and with lots of character’, on a National Trust estate.