In an ancient harbour town watched over by a 150-year-old lighthouse, Jason Robinson’s chic B&B is steps away from the coastal spot that inspired Coleridge.

In a medieval village in Lorna Doone country, this ‘well-managed’ 15th-century coach inn overlooking National Trust parkland is owned by Anne and Nigel Way.

Picture postcard it may be, but there is nothing twee about this 15th-century farmhouse, ‘beautifully restored, and with lots of character’, on a National Trust estate.