Patio doors open to the garden on a fine day at Dan Brod and Charlie Luxton’s updated stone-built inn on the edge of Wiltshire’s Fonthill Estate. The food is pub grub par excellence, from home- made game pie with a pint of Butcombe bitter, to weekend pizzas from the wood-fired oven, and suckling pig roasted over a fire in the bar. Modern country-style bedrooms have natural toiletries and vintage Welsh blankets.

From a burger in the beer garden or bar, to Michelin-starred cooking, Guy and Brittany Manning will provide at their thatched village pub. Boutique guest-house rooms have decking almost on the banks of the Avon. Better than ever, say our readers.

Red brick on the outside, country cool and craft-beery on the inside, this ‘impressive’ pub-with-rooms serves as a village hub – and then some.

On the edge of the Wiltshire Downs, this quirky, affable dining pub-with-rooms stands on an organic farm, a vision of food ethics pioneer Helen Browning.

You may feel a sense of déjà vu at Tom and Jack Nicholas’s timber-frame coaching inn: it starred as the Babberton Arms in Harry Potter films, while the picturesque streetscape has stood in for Cranford in the BBC drama.

Handsome and historic, this buzzy pub-with-rooms has character to spare.