Georgian comforts and very modern luxuries in this stylish Northumberland home

Chillingham Manor is a wonderful Grade II listed manor house offering a beautiful home from home B&B experience in North Northumberland. This period property built in Strawberry Gothic has three guest bedrooms, three more receptions rooms for your use, and magnificent grounds. Luxury accommodation has never been quite so stylish: tasteful, super-comfortable and filled with natural light.

There are three guest bedrooms, all en-suite and all on the first floor. Room 1 looks south to Chillingham Castle’s lodge house, and has a super King size bed (that can be made up as two singles), a huge bathroom and a double-ended cast iron bath as well as a separate walk-in shower. Bedroom 2 is known as ‘The Beach’ because it is triple-aspect and filled with light – you can sunbathe on the bed – with a King size rattan bed and views including Chillingham Castle’s Gatehouse. The en-suite bathroom has a deep, long cast iron bath and a large walk in shower. Bedroom 3 has a super King size bed that can be split into singles and a bathroom with a deep roll-top cast iron bath with a hand-held shower. All guest bedrooms have an armchair, Roberts radio, and Smart TV (this can easily be removed if you like). There’s a hospitality tray with Nespresso coffee machine (pods from Coffee & Kin), Northumberland Tea and a selection of Pukka infusions. Beds are made up with feather-filled duvets and pillows, bathrobes are available and toiletries are by The White Company.

Guests aren’t confined to their rooms here. Chillingham Manor has two large and comfortable reception rooms set aside for guests, all with open fires or log burners for the winter months, and a large and sociable dining room.

Breakfasts are an invariable highlight, and use the freshest and most local ingredients – though so far they’ve been unable to find any Northumberland farmers growing avocados. Local specialities include bacon stottie, smoked trout, pancakes to order and any number of egg treatments. Special diets can of course be catered for but call ahead: they don’t routinely stock gluten free products or the full array of alternative milks. Best of all breakfasts aren’t held to a very strict schedule; leave it long enough and they can, with notice, turn into brunch – and when the weather is right this can be taken in the garden. Just ask and see what can be arranged.

In the winter months (from November through March) it’s less fun to head out in the dark for supper, so at this time of year Chillingham Manor can provide evening meals on request. This means you can relax and put your feet up in front of a fire with no need to drive anywhere.

The grounds are lovely, a warm mixture of flower beds and secret areas, with a croquet lawn for long summer evenings. This is one B&B where, once you visit, you never want to leave.

Chillingham Manor B&B suggests:

Chillingham Manor is perfect for groups of friends. If a group of six take all three bedrooms they will be given exclusive use of the ‘New’ part of the house (that was built in 1828), may be provided with evening meals and can even, possibly, bring a dog. Chillingham Manor has three lolloping dogs of its own so can only accept visiting canines when the whole property is booked for exclusive use.