The Top 50 Boutique Hotels list was announced earlier today (22 November 2023) on the brand’s Instagram page having been released in unranked form last month.
Ranked second on the list last year, The Newt (pictured above) is described as being ‘nestled in the grounds of an alluring working estate that is home to acres of resplendent gardens, enchanting woodland and traditional cyder orchards’ with ‘both the accommodation and common rooms in the house and surrounding buildings having been sensitively designed to showcase the Newt’s history’.
Hampshire’s Lime Wood and Gilpin Hotel and Lake House in Cumbria took second and third place respectively (see full list, below).
This year’s Highest New Entrant is Boys Hall near Ashford, which has come in at number 16. Highest Climber went to The Grove of Narberth in Pembrokeshire, which went from 49 to 36 and also won the Service Award.
Raymond Blanc's Oxfordshire flagship Le Manoir aux Quat’saisons took home the Food & Drink award. Other venues with renowned restaurants to make the list include Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms, Heckfield Place, Lympstone Manor and Grantley Hall.
Voted for by the hospitality and travel industry, the Top 50 Boutique Hotels list is from the same stable as Top 50 Gastropubs and Top 50 Cocktail Bars.
“We are delighted to be revealing this fantastic new list for 2023,” says group director, hospitality and manufacturing at William Reed Chris Lowe, This year’s number one The Newt is a worthy winner and the highest new entry Boys Hall shows the innovation taking place within the sector. It is so encouraging to see so many new entrants in the Top 50 this year as well as being able to showcase such a range of unique hotel experiences available across the UK.”
The Top 50 Boutique Hotels list was conceived in 2020 with the first ‘list reveal’ in November 2021.
Top 50 Boutique Hotels 2023
1. The Newt, Somerset
2. Lime Wood, Lyndhurst
3. Gilpin Hotel and Lake House, Windermere
4. Heckfield Place, Hook
5. Padstow Townhouse, Padstow
6. The Pig at Bridge Place, Kent
7. Lympstone Manor, Exmouth
8. Grantley Hall, Ripon
9. Beaverbrook, Leatherhead
10. Hambleton Hall, Oakham
11. Dormy House Hotel, Broadway
12. Hampton Manor, Hampton In Arden
13. Grove of Narberth, Narberth
14. The Idle Rocks, St Mawes
15. Another Place, Ullswater
16. Boys Hall, Ashford
17. Artist Residence Bristol
18. The Mandrake, London
19. The Fife Arms, Braemer
20. Foyers Lodge, Scotland
21. Great Fosters, Egham
22. Middleton Lodge, Ripon
23. Moor Hall Restaurant with Rooms, Lancashire
24. The Zetter Townhouse, Marylebone London
25. Yorebridge House, York
26. The Gallivant, Rye
27. The Wild Rabbit, Kingham
28. Estelle Manor, North Leigh
29. Hotel Gotham, Manchester
30. Links House at Royal Dornoch, Dornoch
31. Palé Hall, Bala, Wales
32. Scarlet Hotel, Cornwall
33. Hotel Tresanton, Tresanton
34. Henrietta Hotel, Covent Garden, London
35. Lochgreen House Hotel & Spa, Troon
36. The Harper, Holt
37. The Pig on the Beach, Swanage
38. Rothay Manor, Ambleside
39. Number One Bruton, Somerset
40. Nomad, Covent Garden, London
41. The Mitre, Hampton Court
42. The Samling Hotel, Lake District
43. House of Gods, Edinburgh
44. The Retreat at Elcot Park, Newbury
45. Farlam Hall Hotel & Restaurant, Brampton
46. Glebe House, Devon
47. Le Manoir aux Quat’saisons, Oxford
48. At the Chapel, Bruton
49. Henry’s Townhouse, Marylebone, London
50. Titchwell Manor, Brancaster
