Beadnell Towers & Kitchen

Style

Canny coastal crashpad

Setting

Beachside Beadnell Village

Along Northumberland’s wild castle-crowded shoreline, there’s no coastal jaunt worth its (sea) salt that doesn’t end somewhere charmingly cosy. Round here – specifically bijou village Beadnell – Grade II-listed, 300-year-old hideaway Beadnell Towers & Kitchen finely fits the bill. It wears its history on its heart, with antique stone and wood beams in heritage rooms, but patterned wallpapers and painted panelling keep it current. It’s the kind of place where staff will hand you wellies on your way out for walks, you can curl up with a canine in the fire-warmed lounge, and the restaurant keeps up Northumberland’s good name for produce of divine provenance.

Facilities

Rooms

22 (set in the main inn and the Coach House), including one suite (Muckle Hoose).

Checkout

10.30am; check-in, 3pm. Times are flexible by up to two hours for a £30 fee, on request and subject to availability.

More Details

Rates include a Continental buffet and the as-hearty-as-its-name-implies ‘full Northumbrian’ (there’s a veggie version too), and some homemade chocolate and shortbread in rooms on arrival.

Also

Pairock is the hotel’s accessible option, with a roll-in wet room.

Free Internet Access

Pet Friendly

On-Site Restaurant

Room Service

At the Hotel

Terrace, Reading Room lounge, wellies and umbrellas to borrow, and free WiFi. In rooms: smart TV with streaming capabilities, desk, tea- and coffee-making kit, one free bottle of water on arrival, and Noble Isle bath products.

Our Favourite Rooms

With calming coastal-inspired decor (blue and sandy hues, handpainted shells by local artist Matt Robson, hessian and jute accents) in all rooms, these are spaces of still waters no matter how temperamental the North Sea is at the time. But, it’s the heritage rooms, with their exposed antique stone and wood ceiling beams that win our hearts, especially Muckle House for its twin copper bath tubs in the bedroom, or Shiel with its private terrace.

Packing Tips

Beadnell takes some bulk out of packing with wellies and brollies to borrow. But do include any bluster-proof North Face or Barbour outerwear and a wet suit if you see windsurfing in your stay’s future.

Also

On request, staff can play Cupid and arrange flowers, chocolate, champagne, or maybe a petal-strewn bath if there’s a tub in your room.

Children

While Beadnell is cosiest for couples, Coach House Family Room has bunk-beds, some rooms have a sofa-bed for a charge, and some interconnect. And windy beaches, castles to be kings of, and the national park provide plenty of entertainment.

Gallery

Food & Drink

Top Table

Pick the best vantage point of the open kitchen for cheffing and a show. And, come summer, the hotel terrace has picnic benches aplenty.

Dress Code

You might not want to wear wellies in the dining room (or at least dust them off), but otherwise there are no sartorial expectations.

Hotel Restaurant

The hotel is deliciously sandwiched between the fertile farmland of the Northumberland National Park and the bountiful-with-seafood coast. So – with local delicacies in abundance – dining is kind of Beadnell’s thing. In the restaurant’s handsome dining room (parquet flooring, long banquettes, copper pans sparkling against Hague Blue walls, twice-baked soufflé of Cuddy’s Cave cheese (from Doddington’s Dairy a half-hour drive away); gin-and-tonic-cured salmon from a local smokery; haddock battered with Alnwick Ale; and cod and cockle risotto act as conduits for a true taste of the region. The menu has further-flung Asiatic flavours, too; but who could resist the meaty promise of a ‘Northumberland pork plate’? Plus, there’s a small-plates menu for lunch (ahoy there, Admiral Collingwood cheese beignets…).

Hotel Bar

You can either take your cocktail of the month (or a double measure of house gin with tonic) in the peaceful Reading Room, with its parquet flooring, piles of books, painterly wallpaper and fireplace (lit on cooler days), plus games to play (cards, dominoes…). Or hop onto one of the Hotspur Bar’s canary-yellow stools to converse with the barkeeps, or pile into a booth – set around the corner from the dining room, it’s ideal for a digestif. Or, drink outside in the more clement months. Happy hour – with two-for-one cocktails – runs from 3pm to 4pm, Monday to Saturday.

Last Orders

Breakfast is from 8am till 11am, lunch from noon till 3pm, afternoon tea from noon till 5pm, and dinner from 5pm till 9pm. Drinks technically run till midnight, but guests get some wiggle room.

Room Service

In-room dining isn't a standard service, but it's possible on request.

Planes

Newcastle International (which has direct routes across Europe) is an hour’s drive away, or Edinburgh (a two-hour drive away) has more international connections.

Trains

Chathill Station is a 10-minute drive away. From here you can connect to Newcastle in an hour, where London-bound trains change.

Automobiles

Each room has a free designated spot in the hotel’s car park – and with Northumberland’s wilderness all around you, some wheels will come in handy.

Worth Getting Out of Bed For

They may have hailed from further south, but there’s blustery Brontë-esque romance aplenty in Beadnell village’s untamed marram-grass-edged coastline, undulating dunes and horseshoe-shaped bay. When windy it’s a hotspot for watersports, but the golden sands make ideal sandcastle fodder when sunny too, while beach-combers might find bits of sea glass and antique pottery, and rock-pool investigators might unearth little critters. Due to the area’s rich and rife history of contested borders and leadership power plays between the Anglians, Celtics and Normans, Northumberland has the most castles of any English county, with a swathe along the coast. Hop from Mitford to Warkworth, to Alnwick (where parts of the Harry Potter movies were filmed), to Dunstanburgh, to Bamburgh, to Lindisfarne, out on Holy Island (with a twitching pit stop at Lindisfarne Nature Reserve). And, at various points between March and October, dolphins, puffins and seals frolic on and around the Farne Islands – boat trips leave frequently from Seahouses Harbour, and Beadnell guests get a discount (ask staff for a voucher).

Further inland, Northumberland National Park has squirrels, snakes, deer, owls and more; plus hikes to Hareshaw Linn waterfall and through Harwood Forest. And, visit its Dark Sky Park at night for undisturbed sightings of the Andromeda Galaxy and other constellations.

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