Belden House & Mews has opened in Litchfield, Connecticut marking the first luxury, full-service high street hotel in the area in over a century.
The 31-key property, which comes from the owners and operators of Hudson Valley estate hotel Troutbeck, sits on a three-acre area atop Litchfield Hills.
Guests can expect 31 rooms and suites, butler and valet service available 16 hours a day, a locally-driven dining room and bar, a bathhouse, a treatments and fitness center, and an outdoor pool and lawn club.
The dining concept will offer breakfast, lunch, and dinner with each menu focusing on Connecticut’s culinary scene.
Belden House & Mews brings together the estate’s 1888 Dr. Charles Belden mansion, the 1959 modernist addition, “The Mews,” and the 1891 Litchfield Firehouse.
10 of the guestrooms are housed in the original 1888 Belden home, averaging 400 square feet, with select rooms offering fireplaces, balconies and soaking tubs.
The property also includes a three-bedroom penthouse with all ensuite rooms, a private living room, dining room, roof-top terrace, and views of the Litchfield Hills.
Meanwhile, The Mews, a three-wing structure set behind Belden home, is comprised of 21 rooms and suites averaging 430 square feet. Several of the rooms have private terrace gardens and two have private balconies with views over the pool, garden, and hills.
The hotel’s bathhouse will offer wellness and fitness services, either self-guided or accompanied by private instruction.
Massages, acupuncture, astrology, and more treatments are also available alongside a sauna, salt scrub, steam room, 225-gallon Japanese Ofuro tub for hydrotherapies and cold plunges, and 50-foot outdoor pool.
In mid-2025, the property will open a third space, Firehouse, for social gatherings, an area to work, a quick bite, or an events space.
Belden House has been conceived by the team which owns and operates Troutbeck hotel, in collaboration with Champalimaud Design, PBDW Architects, and Reed+Hilderbrand landscape architects.
They have collaborated with local artisans and businesses in Litchfield including Dumais Made lighting, Ian Ingersol furniture, and twenty2 Wallpaper & Grasscloth.
Founder, Anthony Champalimaud, said: “For too long Litchfield has been without its guest house, one which reflects the curiosity, temperament, refinement, eccentricities, ambitions and values of this exceptional place.
“Belden House & Mews is a natural sister to Troutbeck, sharing its aspirations to be both the destination in and of itself, but moreover, to enable and encourage the rediscovery and enjoyment of inspiring surroundings.”