Pelham House Hotel

St. Andrews Lane,.BN7 1UW Lewes, United Kingdom

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St. Andrews Lane,.BN7 1UW Lewes, United Kingdom

Hotel description

Our 4-star hotel has 31 comfortably furnished rooms. The reception is manned 24/7 and also offers a credible wake-up service. If you have any requests please call our competent room service team. A safe is available at the reception for your valuables.

A desk, a telephone and internet access mean you can also work in your comfortable room. A hair dryer is available for your use in the bathroom. Our hotel has non-smoking rooms in which we will also be glad to place a cot for your little ones.

Treat yourself to a hearty meal in our restaurant (with al fresco dining). We can also cater for vegetarian and diabetic diets. The convivial hotel bar is ready to serve you.

The hotel's own description

About Pelham House Hotel, Lewes

Pelham House is a 16th Century Town House Hotel in East Sussex. Restored to create a stylish venue it combines elegance and history, and is just 10mins from Brighton.

Bedrooms

It offers 31 Romantic Boutique hotel style bedrooms, each of which has been individually designed for maximum comfort whilst preserving many original historic features of the building.

All the bedrooms are fitted with contemporary handmade oak furniture, remote controlled TVs, phones and high speed data points and have en-suite baths or luxury showers.

They also contain a range of natural toiletries and comfortable beds with crisp white linen.

Most of them overlook our pretty south facing garden, with views beyond to the South Downs, which have just been declared a National Park and area of outstanding natural beauty.

History

Pelham House began its story back in the 16th Century when a man named George Goring bought a plot of land with plans to build a lavish stone mansion.

George was also responsible for commissioning the magnificent wooden caryatids and panelling, which can be seen today in the restaurant.

The property remained in the Goring family for nearly 100 years before they sold it to Peter Courthorpe who only lived at Pelham House for a short while before selling the property off in separate lots.

It was then bought by the Pelham family who gave the house its name. In 1725 Thomas Pelham set about major refurbishments and began buying back the land and property.

The Pelham family sold the property in 1806 having lived here for 150 years. Over the next 197 years Pelham House was owned by a variety of people, including the East Sussex County Council, who used it as the administrative headquarters for more than 75 years.

In 2004, Pelham House was purchased jointly by a group of four local families and was converted into a beautiful hotel.

Travel

Our Lewes hotel is an easy location to reach, with Lewes station just a few minutes walk and you can catch regular fast trains to London Gatwick and London Victoria. So you won't have to travel for long.

Road links are also excellent, with fast access to Brighton, Dover, the Channel Tunnel and Newhaven (Dieppe) just 10 minutes away.