Need to know
Rooms
Six suites and three standalone cottages.
Check–Out
11am; check-in, 3pm. Both are flexible, though.
More details
Rates don’t include breakfast, but head down the hill to Sunset Boulevard for more brunch-serving cafés than you can shake a sausage at.
At the hotel
Free WiFi throughout. In rooms: air-conditioning, minibar, free bottled water, kettle, Stumptown coffee and tea, Mochamaster coffee machine, Byredo bath products.
Our favourite rooms
We're particularly enamoured of the Gate House – there's something extra romantic about a spiral staircase up to a loft bedroom, with a king-size canopy bed. The custom-made copper bathtub and shower inlaid with handmade Moroccan tiles make ablutions an elegant experience, and the kitchen – with its Smeg fridge and vintage O’Keefe & Merritt Stove – is cool enough that you’ll be tempted to stay in and cook at least once. The artist-renovated ethos is evident throughout, from the 19th-century doors transported from Corsica to the Sixties touches lending a the space an idiosyncratically arty air.
Poolside
You'll feel like a silver-screen star as you swim lengths in the main mansion's historic 65ft pool.
Packing tips
Bring trainers you can walk up hills in – the street is seriously steep.
Also
The estate's a historic home that isn't wheelchair accessible.
Children
Leave 'em at home. This is a grown-up stay (no under-18s allowed).