Estelle Manor

Estelle sprawls – with various satellite cottages, stables, glasshouses and houses positioned close by – within 3,000 acres of parkland. It is all incredibly grand, but fresh and contemporary too.

The Glasshouse restaurant is truly outstanding: a charming, bright room; fun, friendly staff; and imaginative and beautifully executed dishes.

Estelle Manor's groundbreaking new spa in the Cotswolds, a recreation of a Roman villa, harks back to the sociability and ritual of ancient times.

It all feels cinematic and delightfully British, including the way the house car — a Land Rover, naturally — clatters over the pebbles of the tree-lined drive and the cheery apricot glow of the fire that seems to flicker in sync with the DJ.

Everything is celebratory of the good life, with a no-expenses-spared mélange of textured interiors, elaborate food and clubbable service. It’s hard to find a country-club set-up that matches it in terms of sheer ambition and breadth of vision – and competition is stiff on the cusp of the Cotswolds.

Estelle Manor, once known as Eynsham Hall, is a Cotswolds hotel and members’ club so magnificent that it has former Soho Farmhouse staff – and members – marching through its doors.

Set in a Grade II-listed landmark house on a 60-acre estate, surrounded by more than 3,000 acres of rolling parkland, Estelle Manor is a heady mix of elegant, contemporary art-filled spaces and old-school values.