The Gunton Arms Shortlist*
Artful surprises await around every corner at art dealer Ivor Braka’s sophisticated yet ‘relaxed’ pub-with-rooms: find Stubbs engravings above cracking fires, a Damien Hirst painting in the ladies’ loo. More
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Hotel information
Bedrooms
12. 4 in coach house.
Open
All year except Christmas Day.
Facilities
2 restaurants (closed Sun), lounge, bar, free Wi-Fi.
Background music
In public areas.
Children
All ages welcomed.
Dogs
Allowed in bar, 1 restaurant, some bedrooms.
Credit cards
all major cards.
Prices
Per room B&B £95–£250. À la carte from £35. 2-night min. stay at weekends.
Good Hotel Guide Review
Artful surprises await around every corner at art dealer Ivor Braka’s sophisticated yet ‘relaxed’ pub-with-rooms: find Stubbs engravings above crackling fires, a Damien Hirst painting in the ladies’ loo. Simone Tattershall is the manager. On the edge of a historic deer park, the flint-stoned, red-gabled inn has ‘lovely’ country-house bedrooms lavishly adorned with handmade wallpaper, Turkish rugs and antique furniture. Broad windows give on to views over the estate. (Raid a downstairs pantry for juice, tea and coffee.) At mealtimes, chef Stuart Tattershall cooks modern rustic dishes (perhaps pea and lovage soup; Blythburgh pork belly, Bramley apple); most nights, steaks, Barnsley chops and estate-reared venison are cooked, ‘as if in a medieval banqueting hall’, over an open fire in the Elk dining room. 5 miles from Cromer.
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