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The Maltings

East Anglia Norfolk Weybourne

From £130 a night
28 Rooms
Boutique Hotel

This contemporary North Norfolk seaside hotel has an understated country house feel

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Situated in the popular North Norfolk village of Weybourne, just a few miles west of Sheringham, The Maltings is a very comfortable boutique hotel by the sea, one of the latest properties in the burgeoning Chestnut group, who now have pubs and hotels throughout the region. However, like the rest of their properties, The Maltings is by no means an identikit hotel, with rooms, public spaces and in particular a very swish restaurant that would stand out in any crowd. What's more, you're just a short walk from the beach and any number of attractions – Weybourne is a perfect location for exploring what is a very special stretch of the Norfolk Coast.

Formerly part of a brewery that owned most of the local pubs around here, then a family home and a rather unsuccessful hotel, The Maltings has been through many incarnations, but there's a feeling that in re-opening as a hotel and restaurant it has properly returned to its roots. It's a deliberately, low-key, convivial kind of place, with a relaxed country house feel. The entrance opens onto a clubby bar and a series of comfy lounges that flow nicely into each other; there's an understated reception (a desk, basically), and dogs are welcome pretty much everywhere, both in the main building and the flint outbuildings behind, where you'll find more rooms, the restaurant and a small garden.

The hotel has 28 guest rooms, divided into five categories. All have much the same amenities – at least a king-size bed and a spacious en-suite shower, plus tea- and coffee-making facilities and a basket of snacks, including homemade cookies, Smart TVs and good WiFi. The main difference between them is the amount of floor space available, and maybe a bath. Also, as long as there's availability, they will always offer an upgrade, so (who knows?) you may get lucky and snag their best suite! Some of the larger rooms are on the first floor in the main building, while the others occupy a converted stable block and a terrace of outside cottages behind the main hotel, but all are decent sizes and decorated in the cosy contemporary style that Chestnut do so well. There are two accessible rooms outside, and also a couple of 'Executive' suites, which could accommodate a young family.

Also outside, the old grain store has been converted to an open and airy, mezzanine-floored restaurant, called, er, The Grain Store, which serves food based around high-quality ingredients from the region – local beef and lamb, seafood and fish – from an open kitchen. Once again, they've done a great job, not only in creating a contemporary and very inviting dining environment but hitting the spot with the food, too, which focuses on small plates and sharing platters. The residents of Weybourne should be so lucky to have a restaurant like this land on their plate!

Finally, Weybourne has a number of attractions of its own – a shingle beach, which is a walkable half a mile or so from the hotel; the prestigious Muckleburgh museum of military equipment (which draws people from all over the country), and a station on the popular North Norfolk Railway just outside the village, which you can jump on to reach Sheringham in one direction, or the handsome Georgian town of Holt in the other. You're also a short drive from the nature reserve at Cley and the seas at Blakeney. All in all, you couldn't be better placed to explore these and any number of other attractions and places to eat and drink on this fabled stretch of coastline.

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Double rooms with breakfast from £130 a night.

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