The concept of a new Cotswolds hotel is landscape-led architecture and interior design to create a slow, grounding guest experience.

Hyll is a new hotel located in the Cotswolds that is redefining the experience a modern countryside can be like with its mindful architecture and interior design. The collaboration between Manchester-based YOUTH Studio and Tim Groom Architects is an effort to rehabilitate a 16th-century manor house and turn it into a space that is grounded on stillness, nature, and material honesty.

The hotel consists of 18 guest rooms, a restaurant, and newly designed event spaces, which have been modeled by use of the simple concept where minimalism prevails over unnecessary additions. The timber, stone, and worn-out metal are some of the examples of natural materials that create the nature of the architecture and interior design, which allows the surfaces to age and settle over time.

YOUTH Studio also concentrated on simple and bare interiors with furniture being used to see the landscape around. The use of hand-textured finishes and warm and low lighting contributes to the feeling of atmosphere. The colors used, such as limestone, earth-based, and worn-out wood, say something about the rocky landscape of the Cotswolds.

Meanwhile, The Bower, which opens in 2026, will continue the ethos behind the hotel design. This is an architectural project by Tim Groom Architects that embodies a timber-framed building that opens to relaxation in a silent conversation with the setting, meant to hold weddings and events that are intimate and with a feeling of atmosphere.

The architectural outlook of Hyll places architecture and interior design not in the decoration of styles, but as the gateway to reconnecting, cogitating and being present.