Cosy stays

The Pig at Bridge Place, Canterbury

“Checking in feels like slipping on a cosy cashmere jumper”

Local fizz, seasonal pies and plenty of cosy nooks in which to curl up – a stay at is sure to make you feel at home. Checking in feels like slipping on a cosy cashmere jumper. Rooms in the main house – a smartly converted grade II-listed Jacobean red-brick building just outside Canterbury – are decorated in a colour palette of soothing sage, ivory and burnt orange, with wooden floors and brickwork softened by linen and velvet fabrics. There are also luxe lodges set in the surrounding 10-acre parkland, which come equipped with kitchens, squashy sofas and wood-burning stoves. The Hop Pickers’ Huts, neat retreats for two, sit on stilts over the estate’s water meadow. All rooms have a larder stocked with goodies (think sourdough, local