Shuttered sash windows frame a classic parkland view the handsome library and drawing room has been opened up so guests can admire the collections of books and paintings. It’s the project of former interiors magazine editor Karen Roos and husband Koos Bekker – who are also behind hotel Babylonstoren in the winelands of South Africa – and work restoring the properties and gardens took more than five years. But it’s the hotel, cordoned off to day trippers, that is the real hot ticket. The Garden Café (not to mention the buffalo gelateria and cyder bar) is inspired by the bounty of the gardens and orchards, headed up by chefs flexing their tattooed muscles. Not only have the outbuildings and barns all been converted (check out the old stable bedrooms with original 19th-century hay feeders still in situ, pictured) but the gardens have been miraculously brought back to life, and day visitors flock from all over the country just for a snoop around the grounds. This magnificent honey-stone Georgian house really shook up the UK hotel scene when it arrived in the middle of 2019.
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