Estelle Manor
6th October 2023
Estelle Manor, the latest luxury hotel and highly sort-after country members club offering created by Ennismore group.
The Grade-II listed country house sits on an impressive 60 acre estate in Oxford (near the Cotswolds), England.
For hotel guests, the house offers 108 rooms and suites, 3 restaurants a gym and extensive spa - Eynsham Baths. Eynsham Baths will be a 3,000m² Roman-inspired spa. The spa includes a vast tepidarium bathing hall, five pools, a lounge, ten treatment rooms, and an open-air hideaway and bar – complete with hidden pool and waterfall.
Members have the added benefit of the on site clubhouse which includes a salon, shared workspace and children’s club.
Popular with the global entrepreneurial elite and disregard for dress code, Estelle is ‘a new school club with old school values of personalised service and discretion. An unstuffy and fun community, that brings people together who have plenty to say and nothing to prove.' (Website extract).
The interiors were brought to life by Roman and Williams, Olivia Westrom and AIME Creative Studios, as well as Artistic Director Eiesha Bharti Pasricha.
The guestroom designs range from opulent suites, to bohemian-styled woodland cottages. The spaces are dressed with re-upholstered vintage furnishings, 20th century pieces and warm, layered lighting.
The main house showcases ornate ceilings, giant windows, opulent interiors, richly patterned rugs, antiques.
The South Terrace is a Riviera-inspired space with far-reaching views, allowing socialising to spilling down to the 25-metre pool, loungers and bar.
The restaurants include the lively Brasserie, a traditional Chinese restaurant,
the billiards room and Glasshouse.
Billiards Room serves a menu of traditional Chinese dishes with a backdrop of limed plaster walls, serpent-shaped velvet banquettes in shades of Malachite green and Murano glass chandeliers.
The Glasshouse is the hotel’s greenhouse restaurant and is surrounded by a walled garden. The interior are calm, with burnt orange velvet fabric banquettes, large comfy cushions finished with a petrol blue fringing and over-sized plants.
This has a family friendly vibe with a shared style menu.
The Brasserie serves and all-day seasonal menu. The restaurant features some of the original wood panelling which is complimented by carefully curated and designed timber and stone furniture. Hand painted motifs dress the walls and the ceiling has been painted a rich gloss pine green, soft glowing glass pendants.