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Cotswolds Hotels

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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