A long winding drive leads past a lake to this Victorian mansion, remodelled in the 1940s in the style of a Loire château, with parkland, fountain and 17th-century dovecote.

The apricot-coloured Georgian house, at the end of a lime-tree avenue, adds just a touch of eccentricity to a traditional country house stay.

A hunting lodge in King Harold’s time, more recently a former Rolls-Royce hospitality venue, Christopher Trim and Kathryn Warner strive for excellence in the spirit of Henry Royce at their manor house hotel.

Here is a setting that elicits admiring exclamation: green creepers climbing up old stone, this stylishly updated 17th-century coaching inn stands on the banks of the River Coln, in a village William Morris described as the most beautiful in England.

In a perfect Cotswold village, this 'charming' Palladian mansion with 'wonderful valley views' of Cider with Rosie country ‘could not have been a more welcome find’ for readers on a dismal day.

Country house luxury and child-friendliness are a happy combination at this spa hotel, occupying a 16th-century Cotswold manor house in ‘lovely, manicured grounds’.

Even hardened townies are seduced by the surrounds of 17th-century Barnsley House, created by visionary gardener Elizabeth Verey who moved here in the 1950s.

The collection of honeyed buildings on Caryn Hibbert's restored Cotswold manor and farm are home to chic bedrooms, a cookery school, pub and spa, interspersed with quintessential English gardens.

The setting is ‘superb’: in formal walled gardens that lead to wild hay meadows, woodland, and parkland where Sika deer roam, the Wiser family’s ethically run hotel occupies a grand Georgian manor. Following a change of ownership and major plans for redevelopment, room reservations and restaurant bookings are only open to guests of wedding parties, private functions, meeting and events, until Spring 2023.