On a quiet side street in this photogenic town on the River Windrush, the Lamb has been receiving guests since the 1750s.

In a picturesque village of honey-stone houses, tea shops, antique shops and galleries, Andrew and Gaynor Riley’s restaurant-with-rooms occupies a 17th-century building overlooking the Green.

Award-winning chef Kuba Winkowski marks his tenth year at Tony and Amanda Timmer’s ‘truly amazing’ restaurant-with-rooms, in a converted malthouse. Its garden overlooks the Evenlode valley.

‘This is indeed a lively community pub,’ write trusted readers, urging a promotion from the Shortlist for Kate Lewis and Chris York’s popular pub-with-rooms.

A wisteria-festooned arch frames the entry to this prettily refurbished hotel, in a hilly Cotswold town.

A ‘delightful, friendly place’, this ‘extraordinarily good-value’ 17th-century mellow stone coaching inn has recently been refreshed, yet retains its authentic country air.

Blending Scandi style and careful restoration, this 17th-century inn stands at the heart of a quaint Cotswolds town.

Embracing its rural roots, a cosy and traditional inn deep in the Cotswold countryside.

‘Enter by a narrow flagstone passageway and low, latched doorways’ to discover the very model of ‘an olde worlde hostelry’.

In an ‘idyllic’ Cotswolds hillside village, this Palladian merchant’s mansion with Arts and Crafts add-ons is part of the Calcot Collection (see Calcot).

This converted Cotswold farmhouse has just the right level of sophistication to make it feel special, offset by an unstuffy atmosphere, a superb spa, crèches and children’s clubs for under- and over-eights and bikes for cycling round the grounds.

Beyond a walled terrace, an oak door leads into a 17th-century house that now finds itself at the edge of the city.

A new manager and a new chef last year for this popular Cotswold pub in which guests feel they can ‘genuinely relax’.

Opposite the Bodleian Library, this contemporary conversion of three stone buildings retains the spacious feel of their Georgian origins.

On a wide village green guarded by ochre-hued houses, Archie and Nicola Orr-Ewing’s ‘photogenic’ 16th-century pub extends a ‘relaxed yet professional’ welcome.

A man walks into a bar – not the cue for a joke, but a Guide inspector, incognito, to check out this historic coaching inn which has a comedy club in the cellar.

In ‘a gorgeous village hidden away on the banks of the Thames’, this 17th-century inn is owned by Sebastian and Lana Snow, who also have the Five Alls, a stroll along the Thames Path at Lechlade (Shortlist).

Near Blenheim Palace, old-world charm and modern facilities unite at this child-friendly hotel with bags of personality in a Cotswolds market town.

Owner George Dailey revitalised this honey-stone roadside pub from a tired pub into a popular village hub.

Close to the centre of this Regency town, Fiona Burke’s white-painted Victorian villa B&B is a good base during festivals, races and celebrations and gatherings in between.

The hub of a pretty Cotswolds village, this mellow stone pub-with-rooms (Calcot Collection) is liked for its stylish accommodation and relaxed nature.

Quirky and sophisticated, an 18th-century Cotswold dining pub-with-rooms.

Across from Imperial Gardens, this well-restored Georgian villa has heightened its metropolitan allure with fun spaces and further accommodation in The House, next door.