{"title":"2019 Editor's Choice Quirky Hotels","style":"detailed","orderby":"offer","select_hotels":"1936,1840,3458,1787,1891,2613,1654,2260,32853,1811","hotels_badge":"80768","summary_0":"A cluster of Soho Georgian houses here combine as a boutique hotel brimming with wit and studied eccentricity \u2013 antiques and curios, oil paintings, throne loos, books, busts, vintage beds. Public rooms are patrolled by Sir Godfrey the cat. ","summary_1":"Just the ticket for train buffs! Guests check in at the former parcels office at this beautiful disused station, sleep in a colonial style bedroom, or a Pullman carriage with Edwardian fittings, take breakfast in the waiting room. ","summary_2":"Whimsical touches at this neo-Gothic fantasy include wood carvings from a Portuguese palace, a coat of arms prop from Pirates of the Caribbean. Sleep in a shepherd\u2019s hut, a thatched dovecote or a room with a loo with a view. ","summary_3":"There is a piano in room 8 at this estimable restaurant-with-rooms, should you wish to practise the Moonlight Sonata at dead of night. Or pot the black at the snooker table in room 5. Michelin-starred cooking raises more smiles. ","summary_4":"The gallows sign no longer hangs across the road from this historic inn, but the old waiting rooms are still marked \u2018London\u2019 and \u2018York\u2019, from its days as a stagecoach stop. Look out for the portrait and walking sticks of England\u2019s one-time heaviest man. ","summary_5":"At breakfast, raise your eyes from your oak-smoked kipper to admire the pillars and old harmonium in the former sanctuary at this deconsecrated Presbyterian church, now an award-winning B&B and music venue.
\n","summary_6":"Churchill loved his long, hot baths. Book the room he slept in at this former coastal hunting lodge (where he laid plans for D-Day with Eisenhower), and you can wallow in the very same enamelled concrete tub. ","summary_7":"Many hotels have a \u2018library\u2019, sometimes just a token bookshelf, but in the grounds of this Georgian mansion and lovable, idiosyncratic hotel, a galleried library contains a thousand tomes dedicated to the evolution of civilisation. ","summary_8":"More than a thousand weird and wonderful objects are for sale at this Grand-Tour-themed small hotel, eclectically furnished throughout. Sleep in the Raj room; buy a white elephant, enter the Natural History room through a display case door. ","summary_9":"Renaissance woodwork. An ornate Jacobean plaster ceiling. A Rococo fireplace flanked by putti. The extravagant 19th-century rebuilding of an ancient manor house was the work of squire, parson and prolific writer Sabine Baring-Gould. ","total":25,"notpage":"false","return_count":false}