The Newt in Somerset
An estate at Bruton that dates from 1687 and has been a hotel only since 2019, with gardens on a grand scale.
Somerset: Bruton · The Cotswolds
A sense of the place
Why it's in the collection
Because it is the most complete country house in England of its generation — the gardens alone are a day — and because it lies half an hour south of Bath, at the end of the Cotswold road.
- On the Hadspen estate at Bruton in Somerset, half an hour south of Bath; independent house.
- Forty rooms between the limestone house and the Farmyard; the gardens, the woodland walks, the working cyder cellar and the replica Roman villa; a spa with an indoor-outdoor pool; the Farmyard Kitchen among three restaurants that cook what the estate grows.
- Three MICHELIN Keys in the 2025 selection; holds five-star standing.
The neighborhood
Somerset: Bruton
The market town of Bruton and the rolling country south of Bath, at the end of the Cotswold road. Bruton keeps its galleries on the High Street, its packhorse bridge and its dovecote; the Hadspen estate is here too, with Glastonbury and the Somerset Levels to the west and Stourhead and the Wiltshire border to the east.
- Bruton and its galleries, a few minutes away.
- Bath and its crescents, half an hour north.
- Glastonbury and the Somerset Levels, half an hour west.
“An estate at Bruton that dates from 1687 and has been a hotel only since 2019, with gardens on a grand scale.”
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