Until recently, this sumptuous 1902 Tudor-Norman mansion was open only during the warmer months. Now it cossets its guests year-round in its undeniably luxurious public rooms, dining areas, and bedchambers. A long drive curls up through 100 acres to the main manor, where guests enter a baronial lobby packed with the sorts of imposing antique furniture, a massive fireplace, stuffed animal heads, and a carved and beamed ceiling suitable for the country home of a 19th-century blue blood. Elsewhere, decor is beholden to no uniform decorative style, the rooms by turn heavily masculine and airily feminine, but with fireplaces and chandeliers as common features. In addition to the four cottages, the main house holds eight units and the nearby carriage house 12. Dining -- in several interior spaces as well as in the garden and the glassed-in wing that overlooks it -- is of the highest order, as dictated by the Relais & Châteaux hotel association, of which the inn is an honored member. Coat and tie are required at dinner. If any place is worth these breathtaking tariffs, it's this one.