Beaches, staycations, cool coastal happenings
CHARMING COTTAGE STAY
One of the prettiest-looking cottages in Robin Hood’s Bay opens its doors to visitors for staycations. Charming Green Bank House, built in 1706, is a fully restored Grade IIlisted cottage located in the old village on Fisherhead and within a minute’s walk of the beach.
It has precisely the character you’re looking for when you stay in the village – cheery nautical decor in crisp beachy shades with shells, starfish, driftwood, stripes and stylish seaside memorabilia, not to mention a boat in the bathroom.
There is a large open-plan sitting/ dining room with a log burner, as well as a cast- iron electric stove. Green Bank House has been decorated and furnished to a high standard with free unlimited WiFi, two
Smart TVs with Netflix included and a Bluetooth speaker. The high-end kitchen has fully integrated appliances and is well equipped.
To the rear of the property is a patio, with garden furniture and barbecue, where guests are able to get away from it all whilst enjoying the sea air. You can also sit outside the front of the cottage where there are wonderful sea views.
Green Bank House sleeps up to six people (four adults) in two double bedrooms and a twin room for children, and there are three bath/shower rooms.
A three-night stay in July costs £1,262. Winter weekend stays from £637. Contact info@ yorkshireescapes.co.uk.
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A CLOSER LOOK
Picturesque Robin Hood’s Bay - aka ‘The Bay’ - has had a colourful past, starting out as a fishing village and becoming one of the major smugglers villages of the East Coast in the 17th and 18th centuries, with many a tale about all the houses being linked by secret doorways and underground passages. It is told that, whenever customs officers were in the area, a bolt of silk could be landed in the dock and passed from cottage to cottage without
