Two acres of private walled gardens await for you to embrace. Drop into the private hot tub or sweat it out in the sauna. Play table tennis. Sit, stare at the scenery, eat out with meat from Graves butchers searing on the coal barbecue. Take walking and running routes right from the door. Hire bikes on site.
On the wider estate, expansive parklands extend for your exploration, home to a world of wildlife, including Muntjac deer. Dip into the estate’s outdoor saltwater pool, heated to 32 degrees or get your trackie on for tennis. Stay out to take in the last hour of light with a glass of wine and a bench on the sunset mound.
Family flexibility here comes dressed in all its finery, in three immaculately modernised cottages. They offer space, elegance and privacy amid options for 12 or 18 guests, plus dogs in two of the properties. This is a world of wooden floors and woodburners made for multi-generational living, hen weekends or corporate jollies and junkets.
Sweat it out in the sauna. Collapse after a day at the beach into soft, yielding sofas and burn a log or two. Slip out through bi-fold doors onto inviting sun terraces. Get the group together in the evening around Sky TV or stream Netflix or Amazon Prime Video over the superfast fibre-optic Wi-Fi.
If you’re up for a barbecue in the Norfolk sunshine, our partners Graves butchers can help with delivery of prime meats and cuts. Maybe you’ll order venison supplied from the estate as part of our population-control programme. Cooking indoors? Each cottage comes with electric oven and two have induction hobs.
Eat as a group around the 14-seat table in Gardener’s Cottage, or stick to your own cottage group. Family flexibility is key here. Not keen on cooking? Call up the Norfolk Catering Company for sandwiches, focaccias, baguettes, wraps, whole-lunch platters, salads, soups, snacking pots and more.
Tempted by takeaways? Consider Eric’s fish and chips (or pizza), Silk Road II for Chinese, or more cod and chips from the nearby Docking Fish Bar. Order deliveries from Sainsbury’s or Tesco and quality fizz from Satchell’s in Burnham Market. For all things bread, head to The Old Store and share the love.
Eat out at The Rose and Crown in Snettisham with its beer garden and play area, The Jolly Sailors on the coast for Brancaster mussels and a pint of real ale, or The Gin Trap in Ringstead for great gastro with a nice beer garden. Fine-dine at top-reviewed Socius or tuck into Norfolk venison or sea bass at The Dabbling Duck in Great Massingham.
The lonely hoot of an owl or the snuffling of Muntjac deer probably aren’t enough to spoil your sleep. In any case, you’ll be too busy burrowing down in luxury bedrooms for 16 adults and two children.
Gardner’s Cottage offers a superking master that comes with en-suite featuring rolltop bath and shower plus room for a cot. There’s also a smaller double with a king-sized bed and a large double with a queen that’ll take that cot. The family bedroom comprises a superking and two singles for children. You’ve room for your cot, too.
The charmingly rustic Potting Shed is aimed at couples and comes with a single superking with wet room and space for a baby.
For larger groups also booking Park Cottage, you’ll find a master sleeping two in a superking with room for a cot, while bedroom two is a also a superking size double, and bedroom three a twin.
