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Summer Lodge Country House Hotel & Restaurant
Evershot, United Kingdom · Red Carnation · High Luxury
Built in 1798 as a dower house for the 2nd Earl of Ilchester in Dorset's Evershot, this country house reputedly gained a second floor in 1893 to plans drawn by novelist Thomas Hardy, who called the village Evershead in his fiction. Nigel and Margaret Corbett opened it as a hotel in 1979; Red Carnation acquired it in 2003.
- Opened 1979
- Architect: Thomas Hardy (1893 second-floor addition)
About Summer Lodge Country House Hotel & Restaurant
- Relais & Chateaux invited the house in 1991, twelve years after Nigel and Margaret Corbett converted the dower house into a hotel.
- Cast from Sense & Sensibility (1995) and Emma (1996) reportedly stayed during filming in Dorset.
- The Georgian house sits in landscaped gardens in Evershot village, 13 miles from Dorchester, with a spa, indoor pool, and afternoon tea in the formal lounge.
History
Summer Lodge Country House Hotel sits in the Dorset village of Evershot and traces its origins to 1798, when it was built as a dower house on the estate of the 2nd Earl of Ilchester. In 1893 a second floor was added, reputedly to plans drawn up by the novelist and trained architect Thomas Hardy, who had strong ties to this part of Dorset (the village appears as 'Evershead' in his fiction).
The house was converted into a country-house hotel in 1979 by Nigel and Margaret Corbett, and it joined the prestigious Relais & Châteaux association in 1991. In 2003 Summer Lodge was acquired by Red Carnation Hotels, the family-owned luxury collection, which has run it as an English country retreat with landscaped gardens, a restaurant and a spa.
The setting
13 miles from Dorchester.
Amenities
- Spa
- Indoor pool
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Fitness center
- Tennis
- Pet-friendly
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