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

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).

Families have ‘a grand time’ at this 16th-century manor house with spa, in ‘lovely manicured grounds’.

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

There is ‘a romantic air’ to this Cotswold stone mansion, built in the 1690s and extended in the 1820s. Today a hotel and spa, it is part of the Calcot Collection (see entry for Calcot).

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.

You can pick up the Thames Path from this welcoming pub-with-rooms in the William Morris heartlands, perhaps to walk to Lechlade, or past a pretty lock- keeper’s cottage, for a crafty pint in The Trout at Tadpole Bridge.

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.