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The Oak Suite
Massage & body treatments
A wall of glass to the beech wood, an oak daybed dressed in undyed linen and a wood-burner for the cold months. The largest of the rooms, used for the long body treatments.
Box Hill · Surrey Hills · Day Spa & Estate
Where the Surrey Wilderness Meets Deep Restorative Science.
A glasshouse spa set into forty acres of chalk downland above Dorking. Thermal water drawn from the chalk, a walled garden, an apothecary, and a kitchen that cooks what the garden gives.
Open
Daily, 08.00 – 21.00
Day membership
From £185
Thermal water
36° and 38°C
Altitude
172 m above the Mole
The estate
A Victorian nursery glasshouse, rebuilt in black steel on its original brick plinth.
The apothecary, late November
The thermal water comes from a borehole sunk into the chalk beneath the house. It is warmed, used, filtered through the chalk again and returned. Nothing about the pools is theatrical; the steam is simply what warm water does on a cold morning in the Surrey Hills.
The walled garden supplies the apothecary and the kitchen. What you are handed on arrival — a tea, usually — depends on the week. In November it is rose hip and hawthorn. By March it will be nettle.
Treatments are long on purpose. A seventy-five minute facial here is seventy-five minutes of hands on skin, not fifty with a form at each end.
The Estate & Garden Sanctuary
Forty acres, four places to be. Choose one.
North
Select a place on the plan or in the list. The thermal glasshouse and the hydrotherapy pool can be added straight to an itinerary from here.
Treatment Rituals & Menu
Long treatments, few of them, with what grows here.
Each ritual lists its length, its price and the botanicals it depends on. Anything can be added to an itinerary and booked later in one go.
- £165
- £210
- £110
Facials & Cellular Renewal
The Suites
Five rooms under glass, each with a reason for being where it is.
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The Garden Suite
Facials
Opens straight onto the walled garden. Used for facials because of the north light, which flatters nobody and so tells the truth about skin.
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The Thermal Suite
Private hydrotherapy
A private thermal pool and steam room for two, with its own door to the terrace. Booked for the private hour and for the evening package.
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The Apothecary Room
Consultations & teas
Oak shelves of amber glass, a sandstone counter and one tall window. Where you sit with the herbalist and where the day's tea is made.
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The Reading Glasshouse
Between treatments
A warm glass room with armchairs, a small library and no music. Tea arrives when you sit down. Most guests mean to read and do not.
The Botanical Spa Kitchen
Cooked from the walled garden, written down each morning.
Teas are dried in the apothecary. Bowls are cut the same day. Juices are pressed at eight and poured in small glasses, because they are strong. Choose anything to see what is in it; the lunch and the teas can join an itinerary.
Late autumn · November
Elixir teas
Dried in the apothecary, brewed to order, served in estate stoneware.
Raw botanical bowls
Cut that morning. Roots and leaves from the walled garden, dressed simply.
Cold-pressed botanical juices
Pressed at eight each morning. Small glasses, because they are strong.