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The new and elegant swan of the South Downs
The Swan InnFor a long time, a pillar of the low values of the South Downs National Park (its bases were placed in the fourteenth century), just emerged from a renewal from above to face. The 46 -covered dining room is now supervised by a chef with several layers of Michelin credibility, through periods of Chez Bruce and Sorrel in Dorking. Small parties can dine in these quite new surroundings, while the largest parties have the option of making lunches and robust family style dinners in the neighboring barn, where the tables sit up to 24.
The menus are traditional and privileged local suppliers, to the collapse of the steamed Sussex pond, complete with complete lemon and sugary inside. The swan has 12 perfectly reimaginated rooms, dressed in variations on the classic British: without surprises, but perfectly pleasant, and some beautiful landscape paintings of the nineteenth century. They are named after the illustrious previous guests of La Posada, who have directed the entire range, from Rudyard Kipling to Diana Dors.
Pursuing peace in the district of Lagos
A large late Victorian house with, from 2023, a new and elegant interior set, Langdale Chase is located on Windermere, the largest lake in England. It is surrounded by outdoor things, starting with a perfect swimming dock just outside the entrance of the Lake of the Hotel, and proceeding to Myriad Hill, Dale and forest walks through non -touched national trusted lands.
The hotel has 30 rooms, distributed among the main house, the house of the lake and the house of boats, of which several suites with sometimes extravagant details, sometimes beautiful (one has a glass roof, another on the terrace , and there are many reading corners hidden in turrets and under the stairs). The restaurant leans fantasy at dinner and fills up quickly for afternoon tea, so reserve, even if it is a hotel host.
Regenerative Room and Dartmoor Board
From £ 500 per night, the open reservation since February 19 for the stays that begin in May
Fowlescombe farm He has been silently operating in Dartmoor’s foothills since 1537, and not much about the 100 percent organic rotation grazing formula used there has changed in the intermediate centuries. A new generation property composed of Caitlin Owens, whose family owns the farm, and its architectural design partner Paul Glyade, has supervised the creation of 10 suites on the property, in renewed farms and stone barns surrounding the stately house original of the 18th century. . Most have life and kitchens areas, and all are supplied with meat and farm products (even mattresses are made with wool of their sheep Manx Loaghtan).
Guests can cook for themselves or meet with each other and the chefs of the farm in the refectory, where the menu changes daily. Among meals are hundreds of acres of surrounding forests to wander.
An elegant shepherd cabin in Cornwall
From £ 170 per night, since £ 190, including breakfast
Color and flavor: When they do well, they go together brilliantly, nothing less in a vacation escape to St Merryn, Padstow in Cornwall. It is here where Rick Stein – whose seafood restaurant at Cornish Arms is celebrating its 50th anniversary, has joined forces with Tricia Guild (whose Designer guild It is also marking its 55º) to organize a nine -month acquisition of one of the shepherd’s cabins at the Pub facilities. You are receiving the complete treatment of multi -tone designers designers. Each with their own living room, compact kitchen, sleeping and bathroom area, the cabins have always been cozy in the classic-rustic style.
Guild has changed calm a little, displaying some of his most iconic and lush tones and patterns: green and yellow weddings and vivid yellow (the disciples will recognize “retro jade” and “drag willow”) are compensated by the ” Rose of Damask Damask Impression (the Technicolor DG faces Chintz), as well as many velvet and jewelry boucle.