Out of town
Babington House
Country club by Soho House
About
Babington House is where Soho House first went to the country: a Grade II-listed manor of 1705 on 18 acres in Somerset, with 33 bedrooms spread over the main house, the coach house, the stables, a cabin, a lodge and the walled garden. There is an indoor and an outdoor pool, a cricket pitch, tennis and padel, and a Soho Health Club with a gym, a spa, a Reformer studio and the Lazy Forest: cabins with a sauna and cold plunge for up to four.
It is joined like any House, on its own or within Every House, and it is the furthest from home on this list: two and a half hours by car, half an hour from Bath.
What sets it apart
- Smaller and older than the Farmhouse: 18 acres and 33 rooms rather than 100 and 114
- Pools indoors and out, and the Lazy Forest: sauna and cold-plunge cabins booked by the session
- A House for children too: Teeny House takes ages 1 to 16
- Joined on its own, or within Every House with the Farmhouse and the 48 Houses abroad
- The furthest of the lot: Somerset, not the Cotswolds
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Getting in
Route
The Soho House application, with Babington as your House; or Every House, which includes it
Decided by
A membership committee, from a waiting list
Try it first
Soho Friends, at £135 a year, can book a bedroom, and a stay opens everything
Fees
A year
£2,200 for Babington alone (£183.33 a month); £4,500 for Every House
Joining fee
£550 introduction fee, returned as credit for food, drink and bedrooms
Under 27
£1,400 a year for Babington alone
The house
Inside
33 bedrooms across the estate, the Orangery and main bar, a library, a snug and a study for laptops until 6pm
Health
Indoor and outdoor pool, gym, spa, Reformer studio, the Lazy Forest cabins with sauna and cold plunge; Cowshed on site
Outdoors
Cricket pitch, tennis, padel, 18 acres
Children
Teeny House for ages 1 to 16; children need a Child membership or a bedroom to use the pool
Building
A Grade II-listed manor of 1705
Address
Babington House
From home
- 2 h 37Car · 193 kmWithout traffic.
- TrainThe club names no station; it says half an hour by car from Bath