Dales Country House Hotel, Upper Sheringham

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Dales Country House Hotel
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The Dales Country House Hotel
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Norfolk
Hotel chainMackenzie Hotel Group
General information
Location Upper Sheringham, North Norfolk, England
AddressLodge Hill
Upper Sheringham
Sheringham
NR26 8TJ
Coordinates 52°55′53.39″N1°11′4.77″E / 52.9314972°N 1.1846583°E / 52.9314972; 1.1846583
Opening2001
Design and construction
Architect(s)Edward Boardman
Other information
Number of rooms21 bedrooms
Number of restaurants1
Website
[1]
Listed Building – Grade II
Designated30 September 1987
Reference no.1373503 [2]

The Dales Country House Hotel is a grade II listed building [3] which is in the English coastal village of Upper Sheringham in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom. [4] The hotel is also an AA 4-star [5] hotel. The hotel also has 2 AA Rosettes for Food.

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Location

The hotel is located on the western edge of the village of Upper Sheringham and is on the eastern edge of Sheringham Park. The hotel is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) south west of the seaside town of Sheringham and is 26.9 miles (43.3 km) north of the city of Norwich. The nearest station to the hotel is at Sheringham and is 1.4 miles (2.3 km) away. The nearest airport is in Norwich and is23.7 miles (38.1 km) south of the hotel.

History

The building was built in a Vernacular style, between 1913 and 1914 and was designed by Norwich architect Edward Boardman. This building replaced an older structure which had been a Victorian rectory. The rectory had been acquired by Commodore Henry Douglas King, MP in 1910. [1] It was King who had Boardman design and build the building seen today. Boardman's designed the oak paneled and Edwardian interior decoration and features that still survive today. [1] During the First World War and the period just after Commodore King allowed his house to be used as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. [2] The commodore was killed in 1930 aboard his yacht Islander which had sunk in a gale off Fowey, Cornwall. After his death, the house was the home of Major William James Spurrell, a member of a local landowning family, until 1948, when it was acquired by Norfolk County Council for use as a residential home. [2]

Hotel

In 2000 Norfolk County Council closed the residential home, and put the house up for sale. The building and its four acres of garden were sold to the Mackenzie family [1] who decided to turn the house into a hotel.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Hotel website retrieved 31 January 2013
  2. 1 2 3 Listed Building schedule retrieved 31 January 2013
  3. ↑ Historic England listing
  4. ↑ OS Explorer Map 24 - Norfolk Coast Central. ISBN   0 319 21726 4.
  5. ↑ Hotel AA Rating
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