The Georgian facade of this Grade I listed building on long, wide, very grand Great Pulteney looks like something Jane Austen would recognise.

In ‘pretty gardens’, overlooking Henrietta Park, this peaceful villa formed from two Victorian houses is ‘within walking distance of everything’.

Near the city centre but surprisingly quiet, this stylishly quirky hotel with a Michelin-starred restaurant occupies a quartet of Georgian town houses, each backed by a garden.

A genial atmosphere fills this style-conscious boutique hotel, on a quiet cobbled street in the heart of the city.

Behind the golden-stone facade of two mansions, at the centre of Bath’s magnificent Georgian crescent, lies a luxurious hotel with an oasis garden, spa and 12-metre pool.

‘Our welcome couldn’t have been more solicitous, the young staff more charming, nor the house on a sunny day any lovelier,’ say regular Guide readers this year of David and Annie Lanz’s peaceful B&B.

By the footpath skirting the Avon, this popular bar/restaurant-with-rooms occupies a Grade II listed building in a ‘delightful' town.