Membership Country Clubs
If you’d like to factor in socialising and leisure as part of your property search, our Recoco buying agent will happily help you factor this in. Your buying agent can help you check out the most discreet and exclusive local country clubs as part of your property search.
Beaverbrook, Surrey
Our Recoco buying agent can pinpoint the delightful Beaverbrook retreat, just twenty miles from London. Formerly owned by Max Aitken, better known as the 1st Baron Beaverbrook, this is not a members-only club in the strictest sense of the phrase. Membership of the spa does, however, give access to complimentary treatments, personal trainers, and group workout passes. For younger family members, our real estate buyers agent can point you towards Beaverbrook’s Sharky and George kids’ club.
When it comes to dining options, your buyers agent may mention the excellent Japanese Grill, offering first-rate nigiri, sashimi, and sushi; or the charming Garden House Restaurant. Alternatively, your Recoco property finder might suggest the Coach House, with its family-friendly pizzeria, or the classy, classic cocktails in Sir Frank’s Bar.
Ask our property search company about local towns and villages, including Leatherhead, Box Hill, Dorking, Epsom, Weybridge, Chertsey.
Wentworth, Virginia Water, Surrey
As our independent buyers agent can attest, Virginia Water is one of the most exclusive locales in England. As our Recoco property finder can also confirm, Wentworth is just 20 minutes from Heathrow and 60 minutes from South West London.
Our Recoco buying agent can highlight Wentworth facilities: three world-class golf courses, clubhouses and suites, tennis and health club, spa, fine dining or cocktails in the numerous private dining rooms, terraces, and lounges, and a stunning ballroom.
There’s a range of memberships; Wentworth Debenture Members can enjoy reciprocal arrangements around the world as well as a one year complementary membership of the City Club in London – incorporating spa, Four Seasons pool, cigar lounge, Michelin star dining, and a Chateau Latour discovery room.
Birch, Cheshunt, Hertfordshire
Seeking a little Down-from-London relaxation? Ask your property search company about revamped Georgian manor The Birch in Cheshunt. A property buyer looking for a break from their property search might enjoy the heated lido or creative pursuits in the music room, pottery workshop, art studio, or interactive bakery. Or ask your buyers agent about activities: examples include learning to grow and forage your own food, glassblowing, spoon carving, or watercolour painting.
The club also has a screening room, three bars, and twenty events spaces. The Zebra Riding Club is open to all including guests. Alternatively, all-day members-only restaurant Valeries offers meat, fish, salads, pastas, grill, and delectable sweet treats.
Our real estate buyers agent will delight in showing you local property in locations such as Cheshunt, Enfield, Hatfield, St. Albans, Waltham Cross, and Welwyn Garden City.
Clivedon House, Berkshire
Clivedon has been a haven of glamour and intrigue for over 350 years. Ask our real estate buyers agent about the tennis centre, state of the art gym and fitness classes. Members enjoy both indoor and outdoor pools with jacuzzi, infused steam room, infrared sauna or hot tubs. Our independent buyers agent can confirm the infamous ‘Profumo’ pool is located here – the only remaining listed outdoor pool in England.
The varied dining options include the Astor Grill, housed in The Old Stables. The Dining Room serves afternoon tea Monday to Saturday; it’s in the Great Hall on Sundays. (Property buyer or not, you really must sample the signature Red Velvet Cupcake.)
Nearby locations include High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Wokingham, Windsor, and the Chiltern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
Soho Farmhouse, Oxfordshire
Looking for locations just close enough to, yet just far enough away, from London? Ask your Recoco property finder about Soho Farmhouse, in 100 acres of green and pleasant countryside: only members may stay.
There’s a spa, pop-up pub, sauna, indoor/outdoor pool, boating lake, clay pigeon shooting, and horse stables. Dining options include Pen Yen, with its Japanese grill; Hay Barn serves pizza fresh from the wood-ovens, or Blake’s Kitchen Bakery can help kickstart the day with delicious, fragrant fresh bread. And rumour has it the Beckhams were so taken by the design of Soho Farmhouse they asked the in-house team to work on their interiors.
Nearby towns include Bourton-on-the-Water, Chipping Norton and Great Tew, with Banbury and Oxford within easy reach. Our property search company will be delighted to introduce the locality.
10 Castle Street, Dorset
Despite its name, 10 Castle Street is in the heart of the Dorset countryside, just outside Cranborne. Each ground floor room in this Grade II Palladian Mansion, dating from the time of Queen Anne, has its own atmosphere and unique personality. There are under a dozen bedrooms available.
Various membership options are available including “passing membership”. Some options include chauffeur service (24 hours’ notice required), Range Rover hire or boat charter, and complementary helicopter transfers to and from London Heliport. Full members also enjoy the use of clubs around the world due to reciprocal agreements.
A spot of croquet or a cocktail or two on the terrace might appeal to many a property buyer; art lovers will enjoy the eclectic art and sculpture collections. 10 Castle Street is also known to be very dog-friendly.
Our independent buyers agent will be very happy to help you discover properties in nearby locations like Blandford Forum, Ringwood, Kingston Lacy and Wimborne Minster.
Babington House, Somerset
Around 30 minutes from the UNESCO World Heritage City of Bath is Grade-II listed Babington House, in 18 acres of countryside. Part of the Soho House group, Babington offers a gym, studio, steam room, and sauna, as well as a cricket pitch, croquet lawn, lake, and tennis courts, and a choice of an outdoor or indoor swimming pool. Other outdoor delights include walled gardens, while indoors, the library offers books, magazines, and an open fire.
Features in the 33 bedrooms range from oak beds to hand-painted wallpapers, antique furniture, and velvet sofas. Dining options include the all-day Orangery, bar terrace and interior bar, and the Cowshed Active Deli Bar. Babington was the site of the first Cowshed spa. Dogs on leads are welcome in the library and in the grounds. (Assistance dogs are welcome everywhere.)
Nearby villages include Midsomer Norton, Radstock, Nunney, and Frome.
