Close to the city centre, a Jacobean-style Victorian villa sitting above a manicured front garden combines with Hampton House across the road as a single, characterful hotel, with bedrooms and suites blending contemporary comfort and period style, and fine dining in the Dunstane Restaurant and Bar.

On a leafy crescent in Edinburgh's West End, three Victorian townhouses combine as one stylish hotel, with bold, colourful interiors, European-inspired menus in the restaurant, and light bites in the glamorous lounge and atmospheric bar.

The Arts and Crafts movement is lovingly nurtured in this restored Victorian terraced house in a conservation area, run as a B&B by Brisbane natives Susan and Paul Johnson.

Kilted doormen greet you at Rocco Forte's Victorian former railway hotel, with its iconic clocktower, lavish public spaces, spa, bedrooms designed with Olga Polizzi's light-touch elegance, classic French cooking of seasonal Scottish ingredients, and afternoon tea in the legendary Palm Court.

Overlooked by the dramatic landmark of Arthur's Seat, this period gem of a Victorian villa with fine original details and handsome furnishings is now run as a friendly B&B with imaginative breakfast choices. It's just ten minutes from the city centre.