Occupying a splendid Georgian merchant’s house and one-time bank on a square by the Great Ouse, this hotel deserves to be restored to main entry status, by all accounts.

Birdwatchers and bon vivants beat a path to Tracy and Galton Blackiston’s Michelin-starred restaurant-with-rooms in a flint farmhouse with Blakeney nature reserve on the doorstep.

Roses festoon this family and dog-friendly 17th-century pub-with-rooms, in a thriving village close to the RSPB’s Snettisham Nature Reserve.

‘A fun take on a gallery crossed with an old boozer, and a good-value one at that’, this former steward’s house in a 1,000-acre deer park is an ‘anything-but-traditional’ pub-with-rooms, say inspectors.

At this Grade I listed Georgian House of Assemblies, where glamorous event spaces drip with chandeliers, you’ll find a restaurant, cookery school, and 15 spacious bedrooms, styled with pizzazz and a sense of fun, several with their own garden or lounge.

Amid a sprawling estate of woods and parkland, this country house hotel is a relaxed, unstuffy retreat with classically styled bedrooms and a restaurant serving estate-grown produce on a daily changing menu.

You don’t have to blow a fortune to stay at this ‘relaxed yet refined’ hotel in some converted barns, the former home of Langham Glass, and featuring many charming nods to its heritage.

On a Georgian square overlooking a green, this former coaching inn and popular local drop-in offers an interesting choice of bedrooms, dog-friendly dining, an enthusiastic host, and a short menu of appetising modern dishes.