ROCKET LODGE, EAST MIDLANDS

“We had no idea what we were doing when we embarked on this,” says Nick Jackson, one half of the husband-andwife team behind A Little Bit of Rough woodland retreat in Rutland. “We had no experience, no planning permission – we hadn’t even been glamping. We just knew we wanted to create something special.”

Undeterred, Nick and wife Sarah bought 20 acres and set about creating four safari lodges. The latest addition, which launched this Easter, is the result of their ambitious two-year project. The Rocket Lodge resembles something of a space-meets-agricultural oddity – a curious mishmash of corrugated-steel grain silos and shepherd’s huts. Inside, however, it is beautifully designed, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and living spaces decorated with a glorious mix of salvage, antiques and modern indulgences: oak church doors, reclaimed wooden floors from a military gym, a copper bathtub beneath a disco ball and an arts-and-crafts mantlepiece. Plus on the terrace, the all-essential pizza oven and hot tub. Rocket Lodge, sleeps six, from £640 for two nights, with Host Unusual (hostunusual.com/categories/ host-unusual/rocket-lodge)