Guesthouse£££2 rooms

The Reading Rooms

31 Hawley Square, Margate, Kent

About

Two rooms. That is the whole business, and it is the point. The Reading Rooms is a Georgian house on Hawley Square, the leafy garden square just inland of the Old Town, and each of its two en-suite guest rooms occupies an entire floor of the building. The bathrooms are the thing people talk about: cast-iron roll-top baths, mosaic-tiled wet rooms, antique cast-iron radiators. It is four minutes' walk to Main Sands, the beach sauna, Turner Contemporary and the Old Town, and about fifteen minutes out to the Walpole Bay tidal pool if cold-water swimming is why you came. With two rooms it books a long way ahead, and it is the opposite proposition to a hotel: no bar, no restaurant, no reception desk, just breakfast and a very quiet Georgian square.

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Amenities

Two rooms only, each occupying a full floorCast iron roll top baths and mosaic wet roomsBreakfast servedFour minutes' walk to Main Sands and Turner ContemporaryGeorgian garden square setting

Accessibility

Guest rooms occupy the upper floors of a Georgian townhouse, so stairs should be assumed. Contact the owners directly about access.