‘A wonderful find. We had a lovely few days.’ Praise from readers in 2019 for Hari and Colin Fell’s Elizabethan farmhouse-cum-boutique hotel in a Forest of Dean village.

A river runs through it. Originally a 16th-century courthouse, this mellow sandstone restaurant-with-rooms on the River Wye is ‘steeped in history’.

‘Beautifully appointed’, a B&B in a Grade II listed late 16th-century building overlooking a Cotswold high street of mellow stone houses.

Imagine that a 'stylishly renovated' château has been lifted from the Loire valley and set down in 'magnificent' parkland with lake, fountain and 17th-century dovecote, all in deepest Worcestershire.

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).

Facing the market square, a stone-built 15th-century building which has variously hosted a monks’ chanting-house, a post office and a coaching inn.