Manor Hotel, Mundesley

Manor Hotel
General information
Location Mundesley, North Norfolk, Norfolk, England
Address 7 Beach Road
Mundesley-on-sea
Norfolk
NR11 8BG
Coordinates 52°52′43.68″N 1°26′10.60″E / 52.8788000°N 1.4362778°E
Opening 1900
Design and construction
Architect J B Pearce
Developer Bullard & Sons of Norwich
Other information
Number of rooms 26 en suite bedrooms
Number of restaurants 1
Parking yes
Website
Hotel website

The Manor Hotel is a Victorian hotel in the seaside town of Mundesley-on-sea in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom.[1] It lies on the beachfront of Mundesley, north of Gold Park and just east of the Methodist Church. The hotel was designed by the Norwich architect John Bond Pearce[2] and was inaugurated in 1900.[3] It was the second major hotel to be established in the town, after the Hotel Continental, which was built in 1892.[3]

In April 2012, the hotel was put back on the market for sale, just a month after it was repossessed by its owner Terry Burch. Burch put the hotel up for sale for £845,000 after his investment into the hotel went wrong.[4] In doing so he cancelled five weddings which had been organized at the hotel.[5]

Overview

It is an ornate Victorian building which sits atop the Mundesley cliffs with a sea view. The hotel was originally a manor house, later converted into a hotel.[6] It has a six-bay front, with four-centred arches, and a hipped roof with four polygonal shafts.[6] The rooms of the red-brick edifice were "recently updated" as of 2012.[7] The hotel had a reported 25 rooms in 1982,[8] but now has 26 rooms. 10 of the rooms are double rooms, 5 are twin rooms, and 5 are family rooms and there is a "Superior Double Room", the best room in the hotel.[9]

Restaurant

The restaurant states that it specializes in fish dishes such as Cromer Crab and local Sea Bass.[10] Sarah Brealey, food critic of the Norwich Evening News, said that those wanting to eat in Mundesley are "almost spoilt for choice".[11] She stated that one of the most popular attractions is the Sunday carvery, which has a choice of three meats, and said that the restaurant's vegetables were "almost too numerous to recount". She also noted its vegetarian dishes such as local goats’ cheese and sundried tomato tart.[11]

References

  1. ↑ County A to Z Atlas, Street & Road maps Norfolk, ISBN 978184348614 5
  2. ↑ Pevsner, Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (2002). Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. Buildings of England. Yale University Press. p. 199. ISBN 0-300-09607-0.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (2002). Norfolk 2: North-West and South. Yale University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-300-09657-6. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  4. ↑ "Mundesley’s Manor Hotel goes up for sale". Norwich Evening News. 4 April 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  5. ↑ "North Walsham couple suffer wedding hitch over plans to tie the knot at Mundesley’s Manor Hotel". Norwich Evening News. 7 March 2012. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus; Wilson, Bill (1 March 1997). Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East. Yale University Press. p. 618. ISBN 978-0-300-09607-1. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  7. ↑ Dunford, Martin; Lee, Phil (2012). The Rough Guide to Norfolk and Suffolk. Rough Guides, Limited. p. 95. ISBN 978-1-84836-606-0. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  8. ↑ Brereton, Peter (1 June 1982). Through Britain on country roads. C.N. Potter. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-517-54713-7. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  9. ↑ "Rooms". The Manor Hotel. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  10. ↑ "Food and drink". Manor Hotel Mundesley. Retrieved 9 April 2013.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "Mundesley: Manor Hotel". Norwich Evening News. 22 May 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2013.

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