A survivor from a more elegant age, this family-friendly Victorian hotel grandly stands on the seafront.

Pull into this converted train station and take up residence in one of the refurbished Pullman carriages on the disused tracks: ‘quirky and charming’, this is a B&B with a difference.

‘Sumptuous’ inside and out, Ruth and Samantha Trinder’s refined hotel on the River Thames is in a ‘tranquil spot’ that belies its easy connection to the scramble and dash of London.

With a lily-scented terrace in the summer and a log fire in the winter, all is ‘enchanting’ at this ‘elegant, comfortable’ Georgian manor house.

Think of anything you might want from a luxury hotel – ‘friendly, professional staff’, ‘well-appointed bedrooms’, ‘delightful’ public spaces, a ‘memorable’ breakfast with peerless granola.

‘Extraordinary light’ surrounds this ‘characterful B&B’ in a decommissioned lighthouse.

In this Cotswold town on the River Windrush, duck under the wisteria-draped arch of this well-updated hotel and enter a building rife with history.

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.

‘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.

In ‘splendid Cotswold countryside’, this ‘informal inn’ by the sprightly River Windrush charms guests with its ‘heavenly setting’.

A 19th-century resting place for the Household Cavalry as its soldiers made their way to Portsmouth, this 350-year-old inn remains a relaxing refuge for today’s travellers.

‘The feeling of a private home’ infuses Fina Jurado’s relaxed, elegant B&B in a medieval market town within the South Downs national park.

Near the Chichester canal towpath, Mariella and William Fleming’s village pub-with-rooms has been rejuvenated with a fresh Scandinavian vibe.