Bang in the city centre opposite the Radcliffe Camera, this five-star hotel has a large art collection, and serves food all day in its buzzy bistro and Italian garden terrace. A chic penthouse suite has sliding doors to a large balcony with superlative views of the city’s dreaming spires.

Overlooked by Arthur’s Seat, this Victorian villa is ten minutes from the city centre. Bedrooms feature mahogany four posters, panelled walls, tartan blankets. The clubby lounge has a fire and newspapers, and the honesty bar offers wee drams. Breakfasts include rare-breed sausages and thyme-roasted tomatoes.

Panoramic views of Bristol and the Clifton Downs are afforded from this bay-windowed Georgian house on top of one of the city’s highest hills. Cool, crisply decorated rooms have vintage touches and champion minibars, and there’s a rooftop terrace for cocktails.

In the historic heart of the city, just near the cathedral and its pealing bells, this welcoming Georgian inn has six solidly traditional rooms with mahogany sleigh beds, antiques and designer wallpapers. The restaurant offers unpretentious pub classics (ploughman’s, steaks, pies) alongside fish, pasta, gluten-free and vegan options.

Making the most of its location overlooking St Mount’s Bay, this cool B&B ensures all bedrooms have sea views. White decor maximises the Cornish light, and beds are handmade in oak. A top-floor apartment has a terrace and retractable glass roof. Breakfast includes home-made breads and smoothies.

This Grade I listed building in the city centre has 15 opulent bedrooms, fizzing with style and colour. A grand afternoon tea of Alice-in-Wonderland proportions can also be ordered in a breakfast ‘Beforenoon' version. Expect Cornflake jam tart and a ‘Fried egg' cheesecake.

Town meets gown in this handsome hotel with views over Parker’s Piece. Modern comforts blend with gentle nods to collegiate life: Cambridge-blue walls, velvet-covered chesterfields, leather-covered writing desks, retro reading lamps, wood-panelled library, and bar cocktails named after Cambridge spies.

A warren of dazzling rooms awaits you in this glamorous Chelsea townhouse, from the sultry cocktail bar and book-lined library to the elegant modern bedrooms with views of Chelsea rooftops. The fashionable Hans Bar & Grill has outside tables for people watching.

This gorgeous Grade-II listed Georgian building comes with whimsical interiors. The bar has a toy train and turntable (there’s a vinyl library to browse), and rooms have a nostalgic simplicity, with muslin-draped four posters, dolls’ houses, a ‘pantry’ of treats.

In a historic rural park, just ten minutes’ drive from the city centre, this Arts and Crafts mansion impresses with its grand interiors, bold design features and first-rate modern British cooking.

You can imagine nodding off in an armchair over the latest issue of Samuel Johnson’s Idler, or William Hazlitt’s polemics in the Tatler, when you step into this time-warp hotel and close the door on trendy Soho.

A sleek, modern hotel on the ramparts of what remains of medieval Nottingham Castle, Hart’s is where your home is when you want to escape the bustling city.

It feels a bit like finding platform 9¾ but trust us: buzz an intercom to enter a grand, buff-stone railway office block by Glasgow Central, ride the lift to the penthouse and step into a cool city hotel.

‘Our favourite stop-over when travelling to Cornwall’, this twin-bayed Georgian merchant’s house B&B sits atop one of Bristol’s highest hills, with panoramic views.

This little piggy, the babe in the litter of Robin Hutson’s Pig hotels, is set in a crenellated Georgian house and former pub built into the city’s medieval wall.

Fine bedrooms, mixing antique and modern furniture, are named after designers and styled accordingly, at this Georgian-house-turned-pub by the cathedral, with a menu of old favourites and inventive dishes.

Lionel Copley applied his designer’s eye and gentle wit to the styling of bedrooms at this chic Georgian rectory B&B, with elegant public spaces, treatment rooms, walled garden, and a breakfast to write home about.

Art-filled interiors and home comforts make for a soothing ambience at this elegant Georgian townhouse B&B on a cobbled drive in Liverpool's cultural quarter.