Review: Cotswold Grange, Cheltenham, UK

Cotswold Grange is quintenstial Cheltenham. Created from Light Cotswold Stone in 1856, so that its rich owner of merchants enjoy its high ceilings and spacious dimensions, the great facade of the house captured the safe style of the Victoriana Media era. Located inside a peaceful conservation area near Pittville Park, today Cotswold Grange is an independent boutique hotel with only 20 rooms, administered by Nirav Sheth and Jule Fletcher-Sheth.

Althegh, the era of the regency was already history when the stones of the Cotswold Grange base were placed, an aura of Bridgerton Remains beyond the symmetry of architecture; And a feeling that Jane Austen and her pen could have easily found a quiet corner to write.

Cheltenham is the entrance door to the picturesque towns and rolling hills of the quiet Cotswolds, recognized as an area of ​​exceptional natural beauty. Once a city of Regency Spa, Cheltenham is now the cultural capital of the cotswolds. Cotswold Grange is at a short distance from the many Cheltenham festivals: cryket, food and drink, jazz, literature, music, poetry, pride, list of horses and sciences.

The welcome

He approached through a large wooded avenue and offers a wide complementary parking (a weird finding in Cheltenham), the arrival experience is as easy as warm. Check-in is personal and relaxed, with a useful orientation to the bar, living room and breakfast.

The room

Soft green furniture Draw the spirit of Cotswold’s hills in the room. Although each room is designed individually to combine Cheltenham’s historical heritage with contemporary comforts.

The generous dimensions of the rooms, with space for a wide bed and a two -seater sofa, are from another era. Spoke’s sustainable mango wood furniture provides wide storage and there is also a well provided beer point.

The bathroom

Generous and flooded dimensioning with light from a large velux window. The elegant black and white tiles framed a deep, perfect bathtub after one day exploring.

There is also a powerful rain shower in its own cubicle. A modern sanctuary within the period walls.

The facilities

Cotswold Grange has earned an ecological award for its sustainability initiatives, including an approach to products of local origin and the reduction of food miles.

Full English breakfast, full vegetarian breakfast, salmon with scrambled eggs, Benedict eggs, floring eggs, real eggs, broken avocado and pancakes make an extensive breakfast menu. The cute jars of Kilner fruit salad, as well as the Fruit compote, the homemade granola and the yogurt are among the most prominent aspects of the continental offer enjoyed in the light of the high strip windows in a beautifully adorned breakfast room.

The Lounge Bar offers a relaxing place for guests to relax after occupied days in the city and cotswolds.

The location

Entering the city, through Holst Victorian House is an introduction to one of Cheltenham’s favorite children, which composed the planets.

Another unmissable walk is for the Céspedes of the nearby Pittville Park with its large columns by frameting the vaulted bomb room of the 1820s; A temple of the neoclassical regency that pays tribute to the benefits or warm spa waters.

The name of the elegant Mediterranean city, Montpelier is Cheltenham’s version of French fashion life. Aspiring greatness or ancient Athens, the affection, the draped female female pillars, are brought between the boutiques, galleries, hairdressers, restaurants and stores of this luxury enclave. The Cultured Coffee Society of Cheltenham spills on the broad pavements of Montpelier, originally designed to go alacate the last fashions of the season.

For a breath of the field air and a vision of the English history of English history, take a 15 -minute trip to Sureley Castle in Winchcombe. Walk through the steps of the queens while crossing the courtyards where Katherine Parr, Lady Jane Gray and Queen Isabel L once stepped on.

A guided tour and a film narrated by David Starkey reveal that the common erroneous idea of ​​Katherine Parr, finally buried in the farm chapel, since Henry Vllll’s last wife and tranquility is wrong. She was an intelligent woman, acting successful as rains, while Henry was at war. Also a cunning seller published a book of pocket prayers in English that became a sales success.

For a practical flavor of life in the field, we enjoy a clay clay shot of “have 25”, with an expert registration, at the Ian Coley School. If students discover a natural aptitude for sport, they can eliminate in the field clothing store. The last shooting fan can ask for a voice gun and travel to Gardone Val from Italy to see him by manufacturing him.

Other beautiful touches

The apple, bananas, grapes, nectarines and strawberries overflow with fruits bowl in our room.

The reception gives us a map and instructions to enter Cheltenham.

Although the hotel only serves breakfast, the website and staff provide useful recommendations about where to eat in the prosperous culinary scene of Cheltenham.

We tried the very praised and awarded Prithvi, where Tom Law, the chef, brings his French classic training in tastes, textures and techniques to the extensive knowledge of the owner Jay Rahman or the subcontinent cuisine.

Then, for our second night, we moved to Kibou, a vibrant Japanese restaurant, with flashes or neon from Tokyo, specialization in Sashimi and Sushi spectacular. If I had one leg for a third, I would have many other culinary options through the city …

The cost

The rooms begin from £ 100 to the middle of the week and £ 150 on weekends. The reservation directly through the hotel guarantees the best rates and a courtesy breakfast.

The best bit

Architecture and interior design remember the elegance of a past era.

From its golden stone exterior to the cornete ornate on the roof, the high girdle windows and in the breakfast room, golden golden mirrors with beautiful murals and hand -painted birds that adorn the walls.

The final verdict

Cotswold Grange exudes a gentle glamor of the old world.

But its greatest luxury can be the feeling of quiet and genuine hospitality that fills every corner. Whether you are in Cheltenham for festivals, romance or divas in the countryside, this is a place that feels at home.

Disclosure: Our visit was sponsored by Cotswold Grange and visit Cheltenham.

Michael Edwards

Michael Edwards is a travel writer from Oxfordshire, the United Kingdom. Althegh Michael had published his first travel pieces almost four decades ago, he is still finding new luxury destinations to visit and write.