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Work started this month on converting the old cart-lodge on Easton Lane to a central facility for our coastal retreat.

We plan to offer Air conditioned treatment rooms, a reception and just somewhere to make our base.

There’s a lot of work to do to save this near-derelict building, but it will be worth the effort!

The image is a dune hut at Provincetown, Cape Cod. These huts have long been popular with artist and writers and creative people such as Tenessee Williams, Jack Kerouac and Jackson Pollack who have enjoyed the solitude, the ocean and the creativity it inspires

Marsden Hartley wrote in his autobiography “What a summer – in among those amazing dunes… Whoever will forget those dunes – once having seen them – and the great rumbling, dramatic “outside” as it was called – the ocean itself, the long stretch of lovely sands, and nothing else.”

Easton Bavents may not be Cape Cod but we felt that our own ‘dune hut’ would be a great addition to Still Southwold. So – coming soon we will have a small ‘dune hut’ for our guests to rent on our beach. We cannot promise to turn you a famous writer or artist but this will be a stunning place to sit and listen to the waves, brew a cup of tea, relax and read a book whilst watching kids play and enjoy a glass of something cooling (or warming) as the sun sets, possibly even after a bracing evening dip!

The design of these 1 bedroom lets is based upon a Suffolk coastal legend. Most famous of all is the sea monster landed by fishermen in 1749 who discovered the beast in their nets as they trawled the coastline

Their coastal location overlooking the vastness of the North Sea takes inspiration and reflects upon this Suffolk legend

The first dragon – Scylla – was completed on 19th August 2024 and is ready and looking splendid.

See  https://www.coastmagazine.co.uk/content/50-best-dog-friendly-holidays-places-to-stay-sea-uk for full article

See https://www.thetimes.com/travel/destinations/uk-travel/secluded-beach-cottages-in-the-uk-rg08mm5k3 for full article

Star of the show was the yellow tagged Juvenile Ringed Plover photographed just a few days before it was ringed in Norway approx 900 miles away, they do breed on the beach here and have been reasonably successful.