Heckfield Place, Hampshire
They’ve become quite the thing, these country houses where everything’s super cool and yet reassuringly old-school, haven’t they? It’s Gosford Park or Downton Abbey but without the starch that Soho House has done superbly at Babington and at Farmhouse - but we’ll eat our foundation garments if it’s been done better than at Heckfield Place.
With 400 acres and two lakes, one of which you can wild swim in, and a 17th-century manor house to play with, they’ve struck the
