This charming restored Victorian house offers a friendly welcome and is ideally situated in the centre of historic Colchester, in a quiet tree-lined residential area beside the Castle and Park.

A few minutes walk to the Mercury Theatre, museums, firstsite, good shops and an excellent variety of restaurants. Train stations, buses and the leisure centre with swimming pool, are also within a short walking distance.

Colchester is Britain's oldest recorded town with much to experience and enjoy. There is the Norman Castle and Museum, whose foundations were once a Roman Temple which was burned to the ground when Queen Boudica ransacked the town in 60AD. The recently discovered unique Roman Circus and chariot racing track and much evidence all around of Colchester's Roman past. Visit the medieval ruins of St. Botolph's Priory, various Elizabethan buildings, the Dutch quarter, once home to refugee Flemmish weavers, the Victorian Park and more besides.

Nearby are Beth Chatto's famous gardens, with Constable country and the coastline to explore a short drive away....

Harwich is approximately 30 minutes and Stansted Airport 50 minutes by road. Essex University is 3 miles away. London is 50 minutes by train.

No smoking.