Grace and favour

FOR all its negative connotations, 2021 has been a very good year for grand English country houses, the latest being classic, Grade II-listed Georgian The Hewletts, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, which has come to the market through Savills (020–7016 3825) with a guide price of £7.5 million.

Impeccably restored by its current owners, who purchased it when it was in a run-down state in 2006, the gracious 9,000sq ft Palladianstyle house stands in 45 acres of gardens, parkland, woodland and pasture, 700ft above sea level on Aggs Hill, close to the top of the dramatic Cotswold escarpment. The house boasts spectacular views towards Prestbury Park racecourse and over Cheltenham to the Malvern