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Heckfield Place
Hook, Hampshire
Life is attuned to nature at this country-house hotel in a Georgian mansion on a working estate. with walled garden, biodynamic farm, luxury spa, and two restaurants that celebrate seasonality and provenance.
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It took Hong Kong billionaire Gerald Chan a decade and two design makeovers before he felt ready to launch this country-house hotel at the heart of a 400-acre estate. A luxury spa followed in 2023. 'It was worth the wait,' says a Guide insider. Everything about the Georgian mansion breathes nature and a sense of place. Beautiful interiors have a touch of farmhouse informality. Bedrooms mix antiques with 20th-century furniture, raw natural fabrics with modern artworks, books with Bang and Olufsen TV, corn dollies with cocktail cabinets. Most master rooms have a terrace for outdoor dining. The rustic-style restaurants, under pioneer of seasonality and sustainability Skye Gyngell, use produce from the estate, walled garden and biodynamic farm. Hearth, with its open fire and bare brick, serves the simpler fare – maybe wood-fire flatbread with mussels, garlic and parsley; grilled mackerel, gooseberries, horseradish crême fraiche. Marle holds a Michelin green star for dishes such as smoky aubergine, tahini, curry leaf oil; longhorn beef, courgettes, café de Paris. 'Everything was so fresh and full of flavour; the scallops were melt-in-the-mouth delicious.' Breakfast on Dutch pancakes with meadowsweet cream, fennel sausage with pickled mustard, or potato rösti with courgette relish and poached egg, and take a picnic for a day of fishing or wild swimming.
Hotel Details
Address
Heckfield, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 0LD, England
Bedroom
44, 3 suitable for wheelchair user, in original house and modern wing. Plus 2 self-catering cottages.
Openings
all year. Hearth restaurant closed Mon.
Background Music
in public area.
Children
all ages welcomed, extra bed free for under-5s, £100 for aged 5–16. Min age 16 in spa.
Dogs
allowed in 10 designated bedrooms with outdoor access (£35 per stay, toys and treats), on lead at all times on estate.
Prices
B&B doubles from £650. À la carte Hearth £55, Marle £80.
Facilities
morning room, drawing room, sitting room, moon bar, 2 restaurants, private dining/events spaces, screening room, in-room TV, civil wedding licence, spa (heated indoor pool), 438-acre grounds (woodland, lakes, wild swimming, walled kitchen garden, biodynamic farm).











