A seventeenth-century Cotswolds farmhouse, its honey-coloured oolitic limestone warmed further by the low angle of evening light, provides the structural heart of Dormy House Hotel — though the property has expanded well beyond its agricultural origins into a 38-room retreat whose barn conversions and contemporary spa additions sit in careful conversation with the original building. The farmstead character is most legible from the drive, where a copper lantern mounted on rough-hewn stone gateposts signals the transition from the Broadway countryside into something more considered. Inside, the interiors were reimagined by Grzywinski+Pons, the New York and London practice, whose approach across the guest rooms keeps the drama of exposed apex roof trusses and vaulted ceilings as the primary architectural statement, then layers in mid-century and global references beneath them — a patterned blue headboard wall in Portuguese tile-print fabric here, a cluster of sunburst rattan mirrors there, orange ceramic table lamps against whitewashed rafters. The restaurant, called Potager, moves in a livelier register: bird-motif wallpaper by a Fornasetti-adjacent sensibility, globe pendant lights on brass drops, and curved upholstered banquettes that give the limestone-walled dining room the atmosphere of a London neighbourhood brasserie transplanted into the Cotswold hills. Beneath it all, the spa descends into a contemporary lower level finished in pale travertine and grey stone, the heated pool ringed with white pebbles and gold pendant lights — a cleanly modern counterweight to all that agricultural vernacular above.

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