The creeper-covered, red brick building appears modest from the outside, but there are ‘excellent dinners’ within: Kevin and Jacki Mangoelles’s restaurant-with-rooms has a ‘well-deserved’ Michelin star. Minutes from sandy Old Hunstanton beach, the 18th-century coaching inn has been updated with an unpretentious coastal air: there are Lloyd Loom chairs on varnished floorboards; a seascape painting above an open fire. Sit down to dinner at a table laid with ‘modern, elegant china and glass’ – the chef/patron’s menus are short and appealing (‘no lengthy dissertations on ingredients’). Characteristic dishes: sake-poached salmon, oyster mayonnaise, apple, rocket; dry-aged Dexter beef sirloin, spinach, spaetzle, carrot and ginger purée. The hostess is ‘also a wine buff’ – ask for drink recommendations. The bedrooms aren’t huge, but they’re ‘spotless, with plenty of storage’; extra touches include an espresso machine, ‘delicious’ home-made biscuits, fresh milk. Don’t roost in your room, anyway – after a breakfast of home-baked croissants and good cooked dishes, head to Victorian ‘Sunny Hunny’ Hunstanton, or admire classical statuary at Palladian Holkham Hall.