Country Estate charm melds with cosmopolitan chic and ultra-modern technology to offer Londoners and visitors the ultimate escape via 22 rooms and suites with gorgeous balcony or terrace view of the surrounding gardens and parklands, linen-lined walls, original art, ornate marble fireplaces, porcelain chandeliers, plasma screen TVs, children's welcome box, newspaper… Says interior designer Mary Fox Linton: "So many things have influenced The Grove's design—the smells from the garden—roses, lavender, honeysuckle, as well as the taste of the best English food, with produce straight out of the kitchen garden on the estate, the touch and feel of soft, rich, textured fabrics."
Guests dine at Colette's, The Glasshouse or the more informal Stables in the golf house. Cocktails are taken in The Lobby Bar. Kids are looked after in a fully staffed nursery and via cooking classes, nature walks, tree house and kid's pool.
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The
Grove 
A hop and a skip from London, on 300 acres of Hertfordshire parkland
and open countryside, a luxurious lap of luxury was
unveiled in September 2003. The Grove was quite the fashionable
spot in its glory days—during
the 18th and 19th centuries that is. The magnificent former
estate of the Earls of Clarendon is about to remerge grander
than ever.
Guests
can wile the hours away in romantic formal gardens, scented
spaces and private terraces. Or they lounge in the 19th century,
five-acre Walled Garden complete with an 82-foot pool, space
for 1000 people throwing a pool party, two tennis courts, a
croquet lawn and a potager for herbs and flowers. The Grove's
spa, Sequioa, will feature 12 treatments rooms and a purified
salt-water vitality pool. The glorious championship 18-hole
golf course was designed by Kyle Phillips to seamlessly blend
into its environs.
