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Arrive by train (under 3 1/2 hours from London), walk to the house and receive our 10% green discount. Also, if you puff here on the steam Poppy Line from Holt. The Coasthopper bus runs from King's Lynn to Cromer through Holkham, Wells-Next-The-Sea, Stiffkey, Hunstanton and Cley*.

Less-enlightened travellers can drive along the coast, shout “I can see the sea!” before the children and park in the street right outside the house. Those with their own aeroplane can land at Muckleborough and visit the military museum while you’re there.

The seriously hearty can walk from Cromer or Burnham Market (indeed anywhere you like), sail from Yarmouth or even invade by longboat from Norway.

Whichever way you look at it and however you travel, the best thing about this fabulously tasteful, lovely and comfortable house is its location. (*And one of the best things about its location is the dialect: these are properly pronounced Hoecum, Stukey, Hunst’n and Cly. Curiously, Wells-Next-The-Sea is still Wells-Next-The-Sea.)

The energetic can jog along the prom straight from the house. The lazy can be shopping in under a minute. The hardworking can step out for the briefest of coffee breaks in the nearly-next-door café. Children can mess about on the beach and be called in for tea from the Prom.

It is the house for everyone, because…

… Neither young nor old, nor golfers nor theatre-goers, neither swimmers nor walkers nor artists nor gourmets, neither human nor canine… None, no-one, nobody need ever be bored in Sheringham.

The Little Theatre:

Affordable and friendly professional Repertory fills the summer season; with family comedy and thriller, classic Coward and new writing. Pick up a programme of year-round films, music and art and stay for coffee in the Hub overlooking the High Street.

Steam Travel

The North Norfolk Railway chugs through Norfolk coastal countryside. There are steam galas and a Day Out with Thomas [what? can you check this out?] or you might even rub your eyes at all the seamed stockings, tweeds and brogues in town and realised you've landed in the gloriously eccentric 1940s weekend.

Sheringham Park

The nearby Park with its lush verdant woods and views of the coast has routes marked out from one mile to five. The dog will love you for it.

Museum at the Mo

Sheringham is the only known place in the world still to have five of its original lifeboats with a continuous service span from 1894 through to 1990. Four of these are housed in this lovely Museum on the Prom.

Priory Maze and Gardens

Based on nearby Beeston Priory’s ruined remains, the copper beech follows the layout of the ruins, filled by hornbeam to make the maze. The viewing platform, where the cloister once stood, gives you a cheat’s eye view of your friends getting lost in this asymmetric muddle with no middle. There’s also a café, gardens and plant centre

Splash Leisure and Fitness Centre

Why anyone would pay to swim in chlorine and workout in a sweaty gym when all the wide sky and sea beckons you for nothing is an utter mystery to us, but someone must keep it in business and we have no objection to telling you that it has a soft play area, swimming lessons, skate park, a slide into the water… and, yes, waves! As does the sea.

Golf Club

Regarded as one of the best to those in the know (we aren’t) Sheringham’s Golf Course has (we’re told) “undulating fairways” and “fast, true greens” to test every handicap. What we can tell you is that it has views over the wild waves to the North; and to the South, the Enid Blyton Poppy line puffing the train into town. And that the soaring cliffs are swift and sudden so grab the dog, if he’s doddery and dumb as ours.

And if you’re as adapt as we are, you might want to use the practice bunkers and pitching areas, the nets and putting greens. And coaching facilities.

Or in the other direction, fall-out over an afternoon of competitive putting at the foot of Beeston Bump, where the dog also loves peering over the sandy tops into the sea far below. 

Hilltop Outdoor Centre

This – apparently – contains “two discrete centres” in twenty-six acres of private woodland, all within a further two hundred acres of public woods. It provides Business Training Courses, Conference Facilities and Family Adventure Days (all with initial capitals) and you can book it for your Children’s Birthday Party.

Sounds about as appealing as the Splash Leisure Centre. We have a much better idea…

Endlessly Sandy Beaches

Best of all, the award-winning Sheringham Beach has a Blue Flag and the most superb sand in all the world for making castles, or playing volleyball or Crocker (a beach-cross between cricket and rounders but more vicious than either). In high summer it’s patrolled by hunky lifeguards, and with its endlessly changing shallows and fun frothy waves – and intoxicatingly exciting boogie days for exuberant body-boarding – it is dream-and-memory-making for children of all ages to learn a lifelong love of sea-swimming. Yes really: to nearly a hundred (a much-loved family member) and it will keep you young all that time. In winter, look out for the Crazy Ladies’ Swimming Club or far better (if you can find them) join them.

Stroll along the Victorian promenade in the evening sun. Buffet along it in the windy weather. Or play Chicken (safely!) with the wild winter waves riding roughshod over the rocks in raging storm and catching you with its clutching spume as you dodge and run.

On your goodbye day get up early to watch the fisherman into shore with their catches of blue stirring lobsters and crawling crabs.

Finally, lick your fingers over your greasy fish’n’chip supper on a bench looking longingly at your last sunset.

Till next time… Make it soon, Daddy please!