Practically within earshot of the Liverpool Philharmonic, in the city’s cultural quarter, this pitch-perfect B&B has been attracting ecstatic reviews since it opened in 2014. Guide readers were given ‘a warm welcome’ by owners Sarah and Glenn Whitter, she a former primary school teacher, he an interior designer, musician and composer, and what a composition is this! A fine late Georgian terrace house behind a screen of trees, it has been made over from top to toe in ‘inspirational’ style. From the ‘shattered’ mirror in the hall – as if the Lady of Shalott had paused to check her hair – to a double-height top suite with views over rooftops to the Anglican cathedral, everything is on song. Here are oversized lamps, an orange velvet-upholstered ottoman, works by Turkish artist Ayse Kucuk, a bathroom with freestanding bath against a raw stone wall. Each of the ‘exquisite’ rooms has top-quality Egyptian bedlinen, a Sonos music system, luxury bath foam, hand-made chocolates, a tot of artisan gin. Guests relax with a book in the drawing room or pretty garden, while in the dining room ‘a fabulous breakfast’ brings ‘an enormous buffet’, rare breed meats, smoked salmon, veggie options.