Private members' clubs
About
The places to wind down: country estates an hour and a half to two and a half hours' drive from home, with a spa, a pool and rooms to stay in, joined as a member and used for a weekend. Five, one of them still to open.
The clubs
1 h 33 by car
Country club and hotel · Oxfordshire
The country house: 85 acres near Oxford with a bath house of Roman proportions, four restaurants and 108 rooms. An hour and a half by car.
Opening 20271 h 39 by car
Longevity club and hotel · West Sussex
The one still to come: a members' club and hotel built around longevity on 55 acres of the South Downs, without alcohol, opening in 2027.
1 h 46 by car
Country club · Oxfordshire
Soho House in wellies: cabins, bicycles and hot tubs sunk in a lake, on 100 acres without cars. Joined on its own, or as part of Soho House's full membership.
1 h 55 by car
Country club and hotel · East Sussex
The new one, from a founder of Birch: a Georgian house on a lake near Battle, with padel, a pool, saunas and a members' bar, and an open door to join.
2 h 37 by car
Country club by Soho House · Somerset
Soho House's first country house, and the smaller, older sister of the Farmhouse: a 1705 manor on 18 acres near Frome with pools indoors and out, a cricket pitch and sauna cabins in the woods.