Cotswolds Hotels
Our round-up of the hippest hideaways and boutique hotels in the Cotswolds. Also see our guides to Bath and Northeast Somerset for more Smith-selected hotels nearby.
Barnsley House
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Super-stylish manor house
- Setting
- Gorgeous Gloucestershire gardens
The ultra-cool modern furniture doesn’t seem remotely out of place in 17th-century Barnsley House; this spa-enhanced boutique hotel is set in beautiful countryside, less than two hours from London.
Cotswolds88 Hotel
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Versace in verdant surrounds
- Setting
- In a quiet country town
Cotswolds88hotel is a temple to Italian design. Gloriously over-the-top touches such as PVC-backed chairs and chrome mannequins vie for attention with the hotel’s own Palladian backdrop, and the result is a space with its own cheeky sense of humour.
The Bath Arms
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Style
- Ivy-clad chocolate box inn
- Setting
- Twisting lanes of Bath's Longleat estate
A stylishly serene boutique hotel within an ivy-clad country inn, the Bath Arms hides at the end of a twisting lane on the Marquess of Bath's Longleat Estate.
Calcot Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Family-friendly farmhouse
- Setting
- Homely heart of Gloucestershire
Few places can boast being both the perfect venue for a child-friendly stay and for a romantic rendezvous, but coddling Cotswolds spa retreat Calcot Manor has the flair and features to pull it off with panache.
Cotswold House
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- State-of-the-art comfort zone
- Setting
- Charming Chipping Campden
If you want your country retreat with all the mod cons, then Cotswold House hotel is your dream designer pad, in a breathtaking rural setting. It's a family-friendly hotel, too.
Cowley Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Funked-up stately home
- Setting
- Acres of spectacular Cotswolds
To call the look ‘designer’ doesn’t do justice to Cowley Manor’s funky, flamboyant aesthetic; the exuberant decor is a world away from the usual country-house hotels.
Lower End House
Worcestershire, United Kingdom
- Style
- Eclectic elegance
- Setting
- Working Worcestershire farm
Set on a 260-acre working farm, the family run Lower End House in the Cotswolds is an enticing blend of mediaeval architecture and utterly up-to-the-minute fittings.
Lower Slaughter Manor
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Refined country seat
- Setting
- Gloucestershire’s prettiest village
This stately Cotswolds country manor knocks the stuffing out of traditional rural retreats, with all the boutique-hotel trimmings you'd expect of a designer pad in town. At Lower Slaughter Manor, you get your fresh air, fine dining and fabulously romantic weekend away all in one fell swoop…
Rectory Hotel
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Period‑detail family retreat
- Setting
- Walled gardens in Wiltshire
With its open log fires, canoodle‑friendly armchairs and all that crisp Egyptian linen waiting for you in the bedrooms upstairs, Rectory Hotel in the Cotswolds is the perfect place to kickstart or rekindle a romance – with or without the kids in tow.
Thirty Two
Cotswolds, United Kingdom
- Style
- Splendidly sumptuous townhouse
- Setting
- Tree-lined Cheltenham square
A beautifully boutique B&B inside a grand Regency townhouse shell, Thirty Two overlooks Cheltenham’s main Imperial Square gardens and is just a short walk from the artistic Montpellier quarter.
Whatley Manor
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Style
- Unadulterated luxury
- Setting
- Landscaped Wiltshire gardens
This West Country boutique hotel and spa is grade II-listed Cotswold stone set in magnificent grounds. The Whatley Manor restaurant has a Michelin star.
Woolley Grange
Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Style
- 17th-century country living
- Setting
- Wonderful Wiltshire
Woolley Grange is a small luxury family-friendly hotel set in 14 acres of glorious private grounds on the outskirts of Bradford on Avon. Laze by the pool in summer, retire to the fireside in winter, and enjoy the glorious English countryside all year round. Your children will love it, too.
No 12
Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
- Style
- Boutique bed and breakfast
- Setting
- Listed luxe in charming Cirencester
Formerly a wool merchant’s house, like the majority of the architecture in this wealthy town, No 12 is suitably grand with a handsome, Cotswold stone façade.

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