Down Hall Hotel and Estate is a 110-acre playground just a few minutes outside the M25 where fun and games are part of the attraction. Toby Keel paid a visit.
When visiting a country house hotel, you expect elegant buildings, comfortable rooms, delightful gardens and perhaps the odd fountain. What you don’t expect is for the grounds of an 18th century building to host the latest sporting craze — yet at Down Hall, near Bishop’s Stortford in Essex, that is exactly…