Given the wealth of attractions nearby, it makes perfect sense that The Signet Collection chose to breathe new life into this building and make this their second, pretty little hotel and a sister to The Mitre Hampton Court.
As he drives me from Newbury station, my taxi driver tells me there is nothing quite like The Retreat at Elcot Park in the area.
Set in 16 acres of west Berkshire countryside, this Grade II-listed 18th-century building was once the home of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley’s mother and has now been renovated and carefully crafted into a charming 55-bedroom hotel, designed by London-based, luxury residential design practice Taylor & Turner.
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