Southwold Beach House, Southwold

Suffolk. Sleeps up to 14

Are you looking for a special holiday home in the fashionable and popular Southwold? How about if we tell you that this amazing one is right on the seafront with stunning views of the beach and the iconic Southwold Pier? What if we tell you that this property has just been refurbished to an incredible luxurious standard? What if we tell you that its spacious dining room can fit all fourteen of you for dinner and all fourteen of you will sleep like kings in the sumptuous luxury beds? Maybe Southwold Beach House is just the one for you?

Southwold Beach House is a stunning six bedroom property offering supremely comfortable and stylish living. With high quality furnishings throughout, beautiful interior design, a fantastic kitchen and five immaculate contemporary bathrooms, it certainly carries a real air of luxury. Many of the rooms boast exceptional panoramic sea and pier views and there is even a table for fourteen on the front terrace where you can open a bottle of fizz and watch the sun go down!

The lavish kitchen is a chef’s dream. With shaker style cabinets, a gorgeous colour palette and top-of-the-range appliances, you can cook up a storm here. Not only that, it is incredibly spacious and offers a breakfast table so that the chefs can have company while they prepare dinner, or you can feed your young ones early before they retire to their wonderful bunk room. The open plan living and dining room is a wonderful sociable space too with separate lounging and dining zones. The living room is brimming with plush cool grey sofas and boasts a welcoming wood-burning stove. The neutral palette walls are decorated throughout with wonderful paintings of beach scenes and fabulous mirrors. The dining area comfortably seats your whole party, unlike some holiday getaways, and boasts an attractive fireplace. The brightly coloured dining chairs are great fun and beautiful. At the back of the house you will find a wonderful, glamorous snug with stylish leather seats. It is lovely and the perfect place to sneak off to with the Sunday newspapers or for children wanting to play. It has access to the small private courtyard garden.

The first floor is home to four of the six spectacular bedrooms. The master bedroom suite is very special with a super king bed, impressive views over Southwold Beach, a luxury en-suite bathroom and even a sofa, perfectly positioned to admire the beach and pier. Each bedroom is beautifully decorated. The twin bedroom offers a pretty feature fireplace and an en-suite bathroom. There is another bedroom with a king-size bed and a bunk room for four with quad bunk beds. How much fun is there going to be had in that room! There is an additional outstanding family bathroom.

The remaining two luxury bedrooms are situated on the second floor. Both offer pristine en-suite bathrooms. The front bedroom enjoys those fabulous sea views. There are some flexible bed arrangements as the house boasts two sets of zip and link beds so they can either be set up as large king-size beds or singles.

Southwold Beach House occupies one of the best, most prestigious positions in Southwold. It is right across the road from the beach with wonderful views of the pier. There are few seaside towns quite so quintessentially British as Southwold. It is little wonder that it is so popular! Pretty pastel painted beach huts line the promenade and the sandy beach is vast. The iconic pier was refurbished and blends in perfectly. It is lined with shops, eateries and amusements.  Southwold lies between the pretty resort of Aldeburgh and the busy town of Lowestoft on the Suffolk Heritage Coast. Southwold is almost an island, being bounded by the North Sea to the East, by the River Blyth and Southwold Harbour to the South West and by Buss Creek to the North. There is only one road in and out of the town which adds to its magic. Southwold is home to the famous Adnams Brewery with its brewing rooms set just behind the High Street, adjacent to the town’s iconic lighthouse. Adnams offer brewery tours throughout the year and you can sample the tasty pints everywhere. The Coastal Voyage is one of the most popular trips. At high speed, your boat is put through formidable paces in a 30 minute tour where you will see marsh harriers, herons, gulls and possibly osprey.

There are some wonderful walks that you can take straight from Southwold Beach House. You can cross the River Blyth to Walberswick, exploring the trackbed of the old Southwold Railway and returning on the little ferry if you want a change for the return. Over a thousand acres of heath and marshland around Walberswick are protected as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. Walberswick offers tea rooms, restaurants, two pubs, an art gallery, village shops and some charming craft and gift shops. Fresh fish can be bought from the harbour huts and crabbing is very popular for children by the harbour. Walberswick used to host the annual British Open Crabbing Championship, raising funds for good causes.

Aldeburgh is enchanting. It’s famous resident, Benjamin Britten, the founder of the June Aldeburgh Festival, is celebrated throughout the town. There is a wonderful sculpture on the beach. Aldeburgh is very pretty with pastel coloured 19th century homes lining the promenade, a wonderful pebble beach and fisherman’s huts selling the local daily catch.

If you are on holiday between July and September, you may want to visit the Dunwich Heath Coastal Centre and Beach. It is quietly tucked away, offering tranquility and a true sense of being at one with nature. The heath is alive with colour during the summer months, a patchwork of pink and purple heather and coconut scented yellow gorse. It is a rare and precious habitat for dartford warblers, nightjars, woodlarks, adders and much more.