Our new boutique Hotel in Beccles Suffolk
by Roland Blunk
Our long planned metamorphosis into a posh B&B or boutique hotel in Beccles is under way and the cause of much excitement at Swan House. In fact there hasn’t been as much anticipation here since Mistress Eln Rede first opened the ‘Tavern’, as it then was known, in the 1500′s… But times were more relaxed then other than the occasional burning at the stake, in what is now Station Road. The yearly rent was recorded as 8 shillings and 2 pence or about 40p and there was no planning consent to worry about either!
Finally, after a year of appealing and winning our planning case, we are developing our five rooms and when they are as intrinsically characterful as the picture above, they are a joy to work on. The rooms will be lovingly designed to incorporate all that one would expect of such naturally beautiful environments. En-suite, distinctive and totally unique, our rooms will provide the perfect base to explore Norfolk and Suffolk, with easy access to the beautiful, distinctive Suffolk coastal resorts of Lowestoft, Southwold and albeburgh as well as the Norfolk Broads on the doorstep. It’s going to take around five months to create the most idiosyncratic B&B in Suffolk, with a proposed launched date of late April. And you will of course be welcome to view the rooms in our ‘Open’ week.