The ''
Dales Country House Hotel
'' is a grade II

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Historic England listing
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coastal village of

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in the county of

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.''OS Explorer Map 24 - Norfolk Coast Central''. . The hotel is also an AA 4-starHotel AA Rating
/ref> hotel. The hotel also has 2 AA Rosettes for Food.

Location

The hotel is located on the western edge of the village of Upper Sheringham and is on the eastern edge of

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. The hotel is south west of the seaside town of

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and is north of the city of

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. The nearest station to the hotel is at

and is away. The nearest airport is in

and is south of the hotel.

History

The building was built in a Vernacular style, between 1913 and 1914 and was designed by

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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. It was King who had Boardman design and build the building seen today. Boardman's designed the oak paneled and

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interior decoration and features that still survive today. During the

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and the period just after Commodore King allowed his house to be used as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. The commodore was killed in 1930 aboard his yacht ''Islander'' which had sunk in a gale off Fowey,

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. 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

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for use as a residential home.

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 who decided to turn the house into a hotel.

References

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