Uplands House, luxury five star guest accommodation.

The Chinese Room (£110) is delightful too, enjoying the afternoon sunshine, with twin Chippendale beds that can be zipped together to form a super-kingsize bed. Visitors tell us the mattresses give the best night imaginable. The room looks out over the croquet lawn and pastures. It has fine antique furniture including a lovely black lacquer Chinoiserie dressing table suite brought from the Orient by family travellers in the 1930s. There is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers, an elegant carved gilt sofa, and bedside tables with unusual French lamps. These, providing easy bedtime reading, are made using bronze figures of swordsmen by Ferdinand Barbedienne. Pretty Warner fabrics, old Chinese rice paper paintings and rugs add to the general ambience of luxury. There is a hand basin in the room and over it a beautiful gilded Chinese Chippendale mirror. The adjoining bathroom has a basin, a good long bath with a shower attachment on the taps, and a shower unit over the bath, WC, and excellent lighting. The evening sun streams in, illuminating the farmland in a spectacular manner, and making dressing for dinner especially enjoyable.

The Tulip room (£100) is the smallest of the three, but charming, cozy and very comfortable. Bathed in the early morning sunlight, and looking out over the farmland, orangery and rose garden, it has a kingsized bed with padded headboard, Nina Campbell chintzes, an antique chest of drawers and dressing mirror, bedside cabinets with good lighting above for reading in bed, a large built in wardrobe, an arm chair, and exquisite 18th century watercolours. The adjoining bathroom, though small, contains a bath with a shower attachment on the taps, WC and basin with good lighting for shaving and makeup.