Loosen the paws on a circular walk of the Hideaway estate, before heading for South Hams’ hill walks and beaches.

The welcome

Three days before arrival, we receive an e-mail with the code to the estate’s electric gate and a second code for the key box by Buzzard’s front door.

A welcome catering pack of bread, cereals, crisps, jam, orange juice and sachets of hot chocolate await us. Butter and milk are chilling in the fridge too.

The room

Open plan, under a domed yurt-style ceiling, the kitchen flows into the lounge and the lounge flows into the master bedroom. Sun ray wooden struts lead upwards to the glass centrepiece of a roof that gives views to the stars. Cream, green and flashes of arboreal brown make up the pastoral palette.

Above the cedar wood flooring, textiles range from the soft natural wools of the throws, through bronzey hare sculptures, to the nautical rope piping. A five-foot wide bed is dressed in an eco-friendly, Devon Duvet handcrafted from the wools of the southwest. Thoughtfully designed bedrooms have reading lights, bedside tables and plugs for phone-charging on both sides of the bed. Each treehouse is potentially a romantic Hansel and Greta retreat for two.

Or turn right from the entrance hall into family time. Under a smaller yurt dome, there is a triple-bunked bedroom next door to a family bathroom.

The bathroom

Sinuously curving and apostrophe shaped, shower rooms feature in both the family bathroom and the master bedroom en-suite.

An ingenious design, following the external curving wall, helps keep water at the business end of the rainfall shower. Environmentally friendly toiletries are by Basic Earth.

Facilities

For summer living, a balcony curves around the treehouse offering facilities that those well-known tree-dwellers Tarzan and Jane would never even have dreamed of. A hammock and patio furniture are ready for relaxation.

Next to the BBQ there is an al fresco dining table. Pride of place goes to a wood-heated hot-tub. More cerebrally, an outdoor, outsize chess set is set-up for play.

Inside, the spacious kitchen is so well-equipped that you could host a dinner party – and then sweep all the crockery and cutlery into the dishwasher. If fact, there’s probably enough equipment to cook a Christmas dinner. A washing machine and ironing board are discretely hidden away in a large cupboard.