With chic bedrooms in the main pub and coach house, and Scandi-style bedrooms in a new-built annexe, this dog-friendly Victorian former boozer is the Chestnut Group's founding venture, a proper pub with locals bar and a restaurant serving classics alongside more imaginative dishes.

Within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB, this dog friendly former coaching inn, part of the Chestnut Collection, with interiors inspired by the landscape, has rustic-chic and contemporary bedrooms, a bar menu, and modern dishes served in a light-filled dining room and outdoors.

The wonky charms of this timber-frame 15th-century coaching inn combine with smart bedrooms retaining original features, and estate-to-plate dining in the bar, restaurant and courtyard.

Swans glide on the millpond at chef/patron Lee Bye's former watermill in 12 acres of meadowland, with rustic-chic bedrooms, some with a patio, Scandi-cool suites, a hot tub in the meadow, and exciting use of local and home-grown produce in the oak-beamed restaurant among the mill's workings.

On the market square, this 18th-century inn with onsite brewery has jazzy house bedrooms in dolly-mixture colours with pencil-point four-posters, annexe rooms surrounding a coastal garden with views to the lighthouse, Adnams beers in the Tap Room, pub classics and contemporary seasonal fare in the Still Room, and a general joie de vivre.