Gazing upon the Quantock hills, Ann and Ian Dyer’s 15th-century, red sandstone manor house B&B on the family farm is redolent of history.

Take a historic village inn, then reinvent it as a dining-pub-with-rooms, in shabby-chic style, for the modern era.

This Edwardian hunting lodge with a veranda from which to gaze out to the highest point on Exmoor, or at the starry black sky, is today a ‘delightful, well-managed’ hotel, run by owners John and Jane Bradley.