With its bright yellow front door and rhubarb-pink sitting room, this Georgian townhouse with cottages, restaurant in the adjacent ironmonger's and a courtyard garden masterminded by garden designer Penelope Hobhouse is both classic and chic. Aled and Claudia Rees have created stylish, unstuffy interiors that blend the past beautifully with the present: original fireplaces and wooden floors complement the fashion photography and striped furnishings. Main-house bedrooms have Georgian-coloured walls, artistic wallpapers and vintage furniture. Overlooking the pretty courtyard garden, Cottage rooms – two with a log-burner – and Forge rooms are more rustic, with exposed beams and stonework. They all come with complimentary cheese, cider and apple juice. Bathrooms are bold, some with hand-painted tiles, others with freestanding baths. In the restaurant, Sam Lomas creates farm-to-table small plates and sharing dishes such as pork sausage with cider mustard, pollock with baby turnips and ricotta ice cream with damson on a daily changing menu that features ultra-seasonal produce. Hauser & Wirth's gallery is just a short walk away and The Newt, with its gardens and museums, is a ten-minute drive from Bruton.