In the middle of a ‘pretty’ village, this ‘intimate’ restaurant-with-rooms is liked for its ‘high-quality’ accommodation and ‘excellent food’.

Facing an expansive green ringed by lime trees in this quaint seaside town, Stephen and Antonia Bournes have refashioned a plain, old inn into a contemporary hotel and restaurant.

‘A restaurant-with-rooms – and a very good restaurant at that.’ After visiting this year, a trusted reader sums up the appeal of Kevin (the chef) and Jacki Mangeolles’s 18th-century former coaching inn.

Constable country reaches to the the doorstep of this affable, historic restaurant-with-rooms in a coastal village known for its swans.

In a handsome 15th-century building on the high street, Andy and Kinga Rudd’s restaurant-with-rooms casts modern fabrics, and contemporary and vintage furnishings against aged beams, elm floorboards and medieval windows.

A revitalising make-over has turned this large, red brick Victorian hotel into a smart spot on one of the arteries leading into the heart of the historic town.