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Story The Dales Country House Hotel is a grade II listed building which is in the English coastal village of Upper Sheringham in the county of Norfolk, United Kingdom. The hotel is also an AA 4-star hotel. The hotel also has 2 AA Rosettes for Food.LocationThe hotel is located on the western edge of the village of Upper Sheringham and is on the eastern edge of Sheringham Park. The hotel is 1.5mi south west of the seaside town of Sheringham and is 26.9mi north of the city of Norwich. The nearest station to the hotel is at Sheringham and is 1.4mi away. The nearest airport is in Norwich and is23.7mi south of the hotel.HistoryThe building was built in a Vernacular style, between 1913 and 1914 and was designed by Norwich architect 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 Edwardian interior decoration and features that still survive today. During the First World War and the period just after Commodore King allowed his house to be used as a convalescent hospital for wounded soldiers. The commodore was killed aboard his yacht Islander which had sunk in a gale off Fowey, Cornwall. After his death, the house became the home of the Spurrell family until 1948, when it was acquired by Norfolk County Council for use as a residential home.
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