Find supreme serenity in rural Gloucestershire where painters once found inspiration. Today, Box Barn is simply a work of art. Gather in the grand sitting room that rises into the vast roof space, light the fire, cook on the range, swim in the heated pool. Raid the toys, find the games room, wander the working farm. Use the full palette of possibilities.

The good life here in the Somerset countryside comes illuminated with festoon lights, roaring logs, and a heated pool.

Super-swish, super-quirky, super-Scandi, Scafell Lodge is an oasis within a paradise. Sleeping 16 in sleepy Eskdale with private river frontage, this is the irresistible Lakeland retreat you’ve been looking for. Yomp the Lakeland fells then come home to burning logs, bubbling hot tubs, a cinema screen, and hearts afire with wholesome good living.