The Pig at Bridge Place is a Grade II-listed English heritage mansion with 10-acre grounds in the Nailbourne Valley, a Potting Shed spa and the cutest patio in the kitchen garden where the best possible flatbreads are baked in the pizza oven. With 31 individually styled rooms and stand-alone suites and huts, it’s hard to imagine this cute, country house retreat segued from Jacobean manor to nightclub. Nowadays, the only noise likely to wake you is the birdsong or babbling stream. Robin’s wife, Judy, has excelled at conjuring a characterful look for the main house suites, which feel a step up from their signature rustic-upcycled shtick. The main hotel has the original features (including a ghost, rumour has it, if that’s your kink), exposed beams, vintage furnishings and eclectic decor. If you want quirky, go for the Steam Wagons or Hop Pickers Huts, which are an upmarket homage to the fact that up until the 1950s, tens of thousands of migrant workers used to flock to the fields of Kent to pick hop flowers for the beer industry.
