Ship-owner Allan Hughes chose the perfect site for this handsome Lutyens-style Edwardian country house, on high ground, with panoramic views across Exmoor to the coast, the approach awash with daffodils in springtime.

With its bright yellow front door and rhubarb-pink sitting room, this Georgian town house with cottages, forge and Michelin-starred dining is 'classic and chic, a place exuding love and care'.

Serving cider since 1851, this honey-stone village pub has been attracting attention since a lockdown makeover by enthusiastic new owners. Contemporary-chic bedrooms have good fabrics, a Roberts radio, 100 Acres toiletries, views over gently rolling countryside.

At the centre of a glorious Georgian crescent, two adjoining mansions are home to an elegant yet family-friendly hotel with oasis garden and beautiful spa.

In a medieval village overlooked by a red sandstone castle, the old guest house for Cleeve Abbey is now a friendly, unstuffy hotel, with a mix of bedroom styles, eclectically furnished public rooms, gorgeous bar, and menus catering to all tastes.

Koos Bekker and Karen Roos have brought to Somerset the vision behind their hotel on a Dutch Cape wine estate, creating an idyll around Palladian Hadspen manor house, with farm-to-fork dining, dreamy spa, unique rooms in converted outbuildings, beautiful gardens – and a Roman villa as well as two interactive museums.

The setting is pure hog heaven at Robin Hutson's third Pig hotel, surrounded by a deer park in a fold in the Mendips. The part-Georgian building comes in the group's signature shabby-chic style.

A riot of wisteria in spring, the Chapman family's well-loved, stone-fronted, crenellated hotel has a choice of bedrooms, some contemporary, some retro-chic, some single, some interconnecting, while all tastes and appetites are catered for in Brazz brasserie.