Katherine MacAlister finds out about Soho Farmhouse, Great Tew

Just a 90-minute drive from London, Soho House & Co’s seventh UK house, The Soho Farmhouse, opened in Oxfordshire in early August.

Set across 100 acres of rolling countryside in Great Tew, the farm’s existing 18th-century buildings, including a seven-bedroom farmhouse and four-bedroom cottage, have been restored and renovated, with 40 one-, two- and three-bedroom wooden guest cabins built along the banks of a lake.

In the central Farmyard buildings, you’ll find the Farm Deli with a Wine Cellar, Pickle Room and Curing Cave where charcuterie will be made onsite.

There’s also Farmshack, with a wood grill and smoke cabin, where children can experience food being made and even try their hand at helping.

The dog-friendly Mill Room, Soho House’s first pub, serves a selection of local beers, guest ales and ciders, plus classic pub bites.

The kitchen can come to guests for all-day breakfast, as two reconditioned milk floats have been converted into mobile fry-up carts.

Tom Aikens has collaborated on Farmhouse food with executive chef Andy Cook, former head chef at the Savoy Grill, much of which will be locally sourced or grown onsite by head gardener Anna Greenland.

The Boathouse offers casual dining, with grilled fish, meat and pizza all on the ever-changing menu.

The Main Barn, with its two mezzanine spaces, seats up to 140, and is open from 7am until the last guest leaves, serving everything from breakfast to small bites to roast suckling pig.

A south-facing Boathouse with a heated indoor-outdoor pool surrounded by sun loungers is set next to another, larger boating lake.

Members can go to the farm as they wish and non-members can stay at the farm. Non-members staying as a guest can use the site as a member would during their stay.

Guests can walk around the car-free site in the Farmhouse wellies provided, take a ride on a horse and cart, hitch a lift on an electric tuk-tuk or use one of the bespoke Foffa Farmhouse bicycles that have been adjusted to their height before arrival.

By the Boathouse, there are four floodlit tennis courts, a five-a-side football pitch, winter ice rink and Cowshed Active gym and studio.

A short stroll away is a softball pitch for impromptu games of rounders.

On the other side of Farmhouse is the stable yard, home to eleven horses that guests can book to ride during group or private lessons and a Teeny Barn and Camp for children over the age of two.

A hidden spa island with steam, sauna and ice bath is the centrepiece of Cowshed Relax, which also has nine treatment rooms, two soaks (a two-person spa bath), a mudroom and six mani-pedi chairs .

Soho Farmhouse, 1 Tracey Farm Cottages, Great Tew, Chipping Norton OX7 4JS. 01608 691000/sohofarmhouse.com.