Once a music venue that hosted Led Zeppelin, this Grade I listed Jacobean mansion in ‘beautiful rolling countryside’ has been made over with a whole lotta love as the sixth of Robin Hutson’s rare breed country house hotels (see index).

A Georgian manor house on the edge of a small market town close to the north Kent coast is home to Rona and David Pitchford’s long-established restaurant-with-rooms.

All hail this revived 16th-century coaching inn, in a historic Wealden village close to National Trust attractions Scotney Castle and Sissinghurst Castle Garden.