Offbeat kitschy style combines with well considered food and wine to make a stay in this newly-refurbished country house great fun
The sun is out over Dartmoor when we arrive in South Brent. A quick walk seems a good way to kill a few hours before checking in. Optimistically, I put on shorts and soon we’re on a rough track that takes us up to the Avon Dam, with its wonderful stepped waterfall. We head out over wild moorland – Dartmoor is all open access – enjoying views over the South Hams to the sea. It’s February, so the snow flurries are to be expected, though not by my knees, and it’s sunny again when we get back to the car.
The beautiful, Georgian Glazebrook House Hotel reopened last May after major refurbishment. New owners Pieter and Fran Hamman, from South Africa and San Francisco respectively, bought a going concern but gutted the place to transform it from a frumpy, Fawlty Towers-ish place into a cool, stylish nine-room hotel with a restaurant overseen by former MasterChef quarterfinalist Ben Palmer.
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