St Hilary's House
Little Walsingham · North Norfolk

St Hilary's House

A guide for our guests

Pen and watercolour drawing of St Hilary's House from the garden: a two-storey house with hipped terracotta roofs and tall brick chimneys, white walls, an outside stair, a young tree on the lawn and a copper beech to the right.

Welcome to St Hilary's. The house was built in the 1930s on the edge of the village, and the little steam railway still runs past the bottom of the garden on its way to the sea.

Big rooms for everyone together, small ones for a quiet hour. One recent party ranged from seven to eighty-nine.

Use the menu to find your way around the house, walks from the door, where to eat and shop, and the best of the coast in every season.

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See the house through the seasons on Instagram @sthilaryshouse

The guide

Inside

The house

Rooms, arrival and the everyday essentials

Read more →Walks

From the front door to the saltmarsh

Read more →Days out

Steam trains, seals, priories and the coast through the year

Read more →Birds

What you might see from the garden and the marshes, and where to go

Read more →Eat & shop

The farm shop, pubs, cafés and cooks who come to you

Read more →Practical

Doctors, buses, taxis and post

Read more →History

Pilgrims, the shrine and the story of the house

Read more →Say it right

Stiffkey or Stewkey? How to say Norfolk's place names like a local

Read more →Quiz

Twelve questions on the birds, beaches and oddities of North Norfolk. Bragging rights at supper.

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A ploughed field and a misty line of trees seen from the old railway track on the Holy Mile
October mist from the old railway line, a mile from the house
From the guestbook

Guests write

“Large rooms for us all to be together and smaller ones for those seeking a quiet moment. A wonderful large house with everything we could need.”Three generations, August
“The oldest, 93 years old, loved swimming in the sea… The youngest, 8 weeks old, loved the beach.”The A family, August
“The first house we've stayed in with all the reference books we needed on birds, plants and other wildlife.”Burt & Nash families, April