‘We enjoyed it all.’ ‘Charming host’ Amanda Lane greets guests with home-baked treats – perhaps ‘the best shortbread ever’ – at her ‘impressive’ Edwardian B&B in acres of landscaped gardens on the crest of the North Downs.

Watch the sun set over the Alkham valley from Wendy and Neil Burrows’s farmhouse B&B in the Kent Downs.

‘An ideal B&B’, Daisy and Clive Hayley’s Georgian manor house, much made over in Victorian times, is approached via a tree-lined drive through large grounds.

Louise Oldfield and Liam Nabb artfully restored their 200-year-old town house with an eye to preserving its history while updating it for the modern guest.