Morston Hall
Birdwatchers and bon vivants beat a path to Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a flint farmhouse with Blakeney nature reserve on the doorstep. More
Good Hotel Guide Review
Birdwatchers and bon vivants beat a path to Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a flint farmhouse with Blakeney nature reserve on the doorstep. You can walk through the big, flat, beautiful, faintly melancholic salt-marsh moonscape to Morston Quay, take a boat trip to see seals and return for afternoon tea in the sun lounge. It might be Michelin starred, but it is a ‘friendly, comfortable place’. House bedrooms, named after Norfolk stately homes, have a contemporary country house look. Felbrigg has a balcony, windows overlooking the front and the herb garden at the side. Spacious garden pavilion suites have a lounge area and patio, a bath and shower. Almost all rooms are pet-friendly. At night, canapés are served in the lounge or in the lavender-scented garden, before a seven-course tasting menu of home-grown and locally sourced produce – maybe butternut squash velouté, King’s Lynn brown shrimps or Middle White sucking pig. At breakfast there is locally smoked fish, smashed avocado on sourdough, a full English with boudin noir and kidneys. ‘The attention to detail was sublime.’ (JC)
Hotel details
Address
Morston
Holt
Norfolk
NR25 7AA
England
Telephone
01263 741041
Bedrooms
13. 6 on ground floor, 100 yds from house, in garden pavilion, 1 (in main house) suitable for disabled.
Open
all year except 24–26 Dec, Jan, restaurant closed Mon.
Facilities
reading lounge, sun lounge, conservatory, restaurant, in-room TV (Freeview), civil wedding licence, 3-acre garden (pond, croquet), restaurant wheelchair accessible, adapted toilet.
Background music
none.
Children
all ages welcomed, over-3s £50 a night.
Dogs
allowed in bedrooms (£10 a night), some public rooms, not in restaurant.
Credit cards
Amex, MC, Visa.
Prices
per person D,B&B doubles from £210, singles from £280. Tasting menu £115.
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