Jeremy Mogford’s conversion of the old Barclays Bank gets credit from a Guide insider for its 'brilliant location, right in the city centre'.

In a gem of a Cotswold town, with its green verges, galleries and tea shops, a honey-stone house is home to this first-class restaurant-with-rooms

The gardens run down to the Thames with free moorings for guests at this gastropub-with-rooms in the Vale of the White Horse, a former toll house for the eponymous 18th-century stone bridge.

Archie and Nicola Orr-Ewing have created a seamless blend of friendly village local and gastropub-with-rooms at their former 16th-century cider house overlooking the green.

With its wisteria-covered honey stonework, medieval half-timbering and a position overlooking the village green, The Broadway is film-set perfect.

With quiz nights, a jukebox, a well-patronised bar and a choice of dining spaces, the 18th-century Royal Oak has a lively community feel where both locals and visitors feel welcome.

The latest addition to Georgie and Sam Pearman’s Country Creatures portfolio, this 17th-century Cotswold stone inn is ‘one of the best pubs-with-rooms I’ve ever seen’, says our inspector.

A charmingly refurbished hotel, forged from a row of 17th-century houses in picturesque Burford – gateway to the Cotswolds.

In a village of thatched houses, surrounded by woodland and wildflower meadows and close to a willow-hung riverbank, the 600-year-old Old Swan has a timeless charm.

Fiona Shiner’s family-owned vineyard, winery and B&B are surrounded by the green fields of the Stroud valleys.

Between town and racecourse in leafy Pittville, Nirav and Dhruti Sheth’s friendly hotel is in a fine stone mansion with gardens front and back.

This picture-perfect Cotswold-stone village inn is all low beams, flagged floors and open fires as befits its 400 years of service.

It’s no wonder that Ian and Chrissie Carling’s hotel is so dramatic inside.

Think of a quintessential English coaching inn – half-timbered facade, big stone fireplaces, low-beamed rooms, leaded windows, panelled walls, wonky floors – and you could be describing this 15th Century village inn.

Amid 240 acres of native woodland, rewilded organic meadow and grassland, this 16th-century stone manor house offers a real escape to the country.

With the feel of a charmed Cotswolds village, this collection of honeyed buildings house chic rooms surrounded by pretty gardens, as well as a spa, pub and cookery school.

With funky artwork in the bar and attractive salvaged furniture, this is not your conventional thatched village inn, but it brims with a quirky charm and a warm, open-to-everyone welcome.

In a setting that elicits admiration, this stylishly updated 17th-century coaching inn stands on the banks of the River Coln, in a village, described by William Morris, as the most beautiful in England.

In postcard-perfect Broadway, this 16th-century honeyed-stone building epitomises Cotswold cottage charm with its low-beamed rooms, exposed-stone walls and glinting brasses over the inglenook fireplace.

Creepers clamber up the honey stone walls of this 17th-century coaching inn, in a peaceful village a short stroll from the River Windrush.

The classic Cotswold-stone exterior of this 17th-century inn reveals cool and fun interiors that successfully blend wooden beams and ancient floorboards with cocktails, Scandi-chic furnishings and a family-friendly feel.