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Twelve rooms between the marsh and the sea

Burnham Overy Staithe · North Norfolk

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Marram is a brick and flint granary on the edge of Overy Marsh, built in 1821 to store barley for the boats. We kept the beams, the long windows and the quiet, and added twelve rooms, a kitchen and a fire that is lit from October to April.

Rooms
Twelve
To the beach
1.2 miles, on foot
Dogs
Welcome in four rooms
A still creek winding through green salt marsh under a clear sky. Marram grass on a sand dune, the beach and a strip of blue sea beyond. Tall dry reeds in the foreground and pale water under a wide grey sky. A wide salt marsh of pools and grass stretching to a low horizon.

The view from a Marsh Room, westward over the creek at Overy.

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Season

Optional. We'll check the free weeknights for you.

Nights

2

£240 a night

Two nights, £480 in total, with breakfast

Two-night minimum at weekends.

Request these dates by email

Or ring the desk on 01328 555 014, 9am to 7pm.

Roast hake on a white scalloped plate, with fennel and a coral-coloured shellfish sauce.

Dinner, four nights a week

Thursday to Sunday, our cook Hattie Lowe sets one five-course menu from what the boats, the marsh and three farms within twelve miles bring in that morning. £68, and residents always have a table.

A Thursday in October

  1. Brancaster mussels, cider, lovage
  2. Beetroot baked in salt, smoked curd
  3. Hake, samphire, brown shrimp butter
  4. Hogget from Holkham, pickled walnut
  5. Quince, burnt honey, oat biscuit
A wicker basket with a baguette, lemons, a book and a sprig of yellow mimosa.

Breakfast is served until ten in the long room, and on fine mornings we'll pack it in a basket for the walk to the beach.

Three walks from the door

  1. Marram grass bending over a sand dune at Gun Hill.

    2.4 miles

    To Gun Hill and the beach

    Along the sea wall to the dunes at Gun Hill and the long sands beyond. Go two hours either side of low tide and you can walk to Scolt Head's eastern tip.

  2. A weathered wooden fence along grassy dunes.

    5 miles

    Through Holkham Pines

    West along the coast path into the Corsican pines, out onto Holkham Bay, and back for a late lunch. Pink-footed geese arrive overhead from October.

  3. An egret wading the shallows on a pale tidal flat.

    By boat

    To Scolt Head Island

    Between May and September a ferry runs from the staithe when the tide allows. Terns nest at the western end; the warden will tell you where not to walk.

Staying with us

Morning light through linen curtains onto an unmade white bed.
Arriving
Check-in from three, check-out by eleven. We'll keep your bags if the tide is better later.
Getting here
Train to King's Lynn, then the Coasthopper bus, which stops at the end of the lane. Or 2 hours 50 from London by car.
Dogs
Welcome in the four Marsh Rooms, £20 a stay, with towels by the boot room door.
Charging
Two car chargers in the yard and a bike shed with a pump and tools.
Access
Two ground-floor rooms with level showers. Tell us what would help and we'll arrange it.
Quiet
No televisions in the rooms. Wi-Fi, a library, and a lot of weather.

Come in winter, when the geese are in

November to March, from £240 a night with breakfast. Every third weeknight is on us.

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