The participation of a bedside servant bell has a bent to send energy to one’s head. Ring, ring … matches please! Ring, ring … coffee, no milk! Requests finished and dusted, a aspiration of a Goodwood Estate’s newest further was plain to see. This 10-bedroom ultra-luxurious nation residence in a heart of a Sussex Downs is accessible to lease out in a entirety, private cook included, all food and drink, oppulance toiletries, cheuffer parking and, naturally, servant service.
Of course, a sport dogs that once called Hound Lodge home didn’t suffer such luxuries. But their diagnosis wasn’t distant off. Indeed, Hound Lodge and a beside Kennels — now a hall and grill that’s open to members and overnight guest — were propitious with executive heating a century before Goodwood House itself. So while a owners of a estate, a Duke of Richmond, had to make do, a dogs were kept in comfort.
Little consternation afterwards that Hound Lodge became famous as “the many lush dog residence in a world” during a heyday. Now remade into a grand let skill for two-legged guest and their pets, it stays a rather intelligent prospect.
Though built during a 20th century, Hound Lodge’s bedrooms hark behind to a duration 200 years progressing when Goodwood Estate’s Charlton Hunt hosted royals and aristocrats. After tea in a community lounge, your servant will drive we to one of 10 rooms, named after a dogs of a Glorious Twenty-Three — a mythological 57-mile sport follow that took place in 1738 and lasted for 10 hours.
Whatever your views on hunting, my room, Dido, was formally propitious out to compensate reverence to a personality of a pack. Antique desks, exuberant rugs and superb vases filled an expanded space, finished adult in classical country-house character by Cindy Leveson — an interior engineer and long-term crony of a estate’s stream owner, Lord March. Modern amenities such as Bluetooth speakers and an iPad seemed alongside Gordon Castle toiletries, tasty shortbread and Glenfiddich whisky. Shelves were stocked with books on Lucian Freud and Winston Churchill, while in a lavatory were a monsoon showering and claw-foot tub.
To top it all off, mattresses pressed with nap from a Goodwood Estate — which, among other things, is home to a largest lowland organic plantation in Europe — ensured a good night’s sleep.
Cars are during a heart of a estate, with motor-racing fans entertainment for a Goodwood Festival of Speed in Jun and selected car lovers concentration for a Goodwood Revival in September. There’s also a Qatar Goodwood Festival for equine racing in July, several golf courses, an aerodrome, 12,000 acres of land, a spa, a hotel and a woodland sculpture garden. All this ensures that guest are never brief of something to do.
I spent an afternoon walking in The Valdoe, a woodland that runs from a board to Lavant, with Nik Wastacott, a internal cook and restaurateur who has teamed adult with Hound Lodge to offer guided foraging tours and cookery demonstrations. Despite Nik frankly announcing that it was “totally the wrong time of year for any kind of foraging”, an beguiling travel ensued, followed by a cookery category and a float behind to a board in a chauffeur-driven Land Rover.
The subsequent morning we opted for an in-room Elemis facial. All activities are offering as combined extras though make for a fun approach of occupying a vast group.
Beyond a estate there’s walking in a stately South Downs National Park — many particularly a 100-mile South Downs Way, from Winchester to Eastbourne. If you’re some-more of a coastal hiker afterwards West Wittering beach, circuitously Chichester Harbour, is one of a many scenic stretches of silt in a UK. For civic delights, a cathedral city of Chichester is 10 mins away, while Arundel has a large castle.
Back during Hound Lodge we won’t go hungry, as all food and splash is included. we arrived to afternoon tea and cake in a loll and was treated to a four-course party in a categorical dining room come evening, followed by breakfast a subsequent day. Produce from a Goodwood Estate facilities highly, alongside internal Nyetimber champagne and wines from a circuitously Tinwood Estate vineyard.
If we do wish to sup out The Kennels is only opposite, though for that quintessential Sussex knowledge conduct to The Fox Goes Free in a encampment of Charlton, where record fires, wood-paneling and panorama views await.
Hound Lodge, Goodwood Estate, West Sussex, PO18 OPP (01243 755076; goodwood.com). Nightly let of a 10-bedroom Lodge starts during £10,000, food and splash included. Sleeps 20. Dogs welcome.
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