Gilpin Lake House

This is an extraordinary place – a tiny spa hotel, filled with gorgeous antiques and flowers and with only six rooms in the house – luxury and intimacy entwined. It sits away from the crowds, lost in the hills, surrounded by acres of peaceful woodland. A swimming pool in the house opens onto a terrace with loungers overlooking the lake. Elsewhere, beautiful gardens, a rowing boat, and a second hot tub overlooking fells.

There’s a treatment room in a cabin that sits above the lake, then a snug boathouse with a deck on the water. Spoiling rooms have fabulous beds, sofas, beautiful fabrics, bathrooms that don’t hold back. Sumptuous breakfasts are served wherever you want: your room, the terrace, the conservatory – light bites, picnic hampers and afternoon teas are sublime.

There’s a chauffeur to whizz you up to their sister hotel for delicious dinners. Come with friends and take the whole place. Out of this world.