Up for an Award

Strand House finalist for AA FRIENDLIEST LANDLADY OF THE YEAR award.

Mary Sullivan, Partner at Strand House is a finalist out of over 4000 establishments in the AA Guest Accommodation scheme in the 2008 AA Friendliest Landlady of the Year Award.

Mary and Hugh were delighted to attend the Award ceremony luncheon at a top London hotel. Mary received a certificate and engraved glass decanter from the AA in its 100 year celebrations. Hugh and Mary were applauded by colleagues and professionals trading for many years in the Guest Accommodation industry, with the nomination coming from the AA Hotel Inspector herself Strand House is up there with the best!

Great Food

Food is at the heart of Strand House. Ingredients are, fresh, local and cooked with skill and passion by Mary and her team. The menu changes daily depending on what the fishing boats bring into Rye Harbour or the local organic farm has in meat and of course the alchemy of the chef means the menu is always a work in progress!

Breakfast:
A full Sussex breakfast.
Organic local reared sausages and bacon from Food Fore Thought.
Salmon, continental meats.
Veggie breakfast with homemade beans and potato cakes.
Healthy buffet, Northiam Dairy yogurts, Kent Apple juice.

Lunch:
Sandwich plate or Cheese plate.
Packed lunches / picnics on request.

Afternoon tea:
All homemade with Sussex cream.
Hand made cakes. Local berries.
Strand House special with Champagne.

Dinner:
Strand House dinner a foodies delight! All local and seasonal, changing daily. Organic locally reared meats from Food Fore Thought. Fish from the boats from Rye Bay. All this with 20 years professional experience bring together a dinner to remember.
Local wines and Rother Valley Brewery beers.

Special diets:
Mary has a wide experience of vegetarian menus and can create cooking for diabetics and gluten intolerant diets. Please let us know if you have an special requirements before you arrive and we will do our best to meet them.

Calm, Dignified Retreat

Strand Guest House Rye, provides a calm, dignified retreat from the stresses of modern living. We offer comfortable, elegant rooms and personal service in a historic house and with a love of food and cooking, Mary and Hugh create the feel of a small intimate Country House Hotel. Luxury bed and breakfast only two miles from Rye. Great food and wine with out leaving the house.

13th Century Strand House

The house dates from the 13th Century making it even older than the famous Mermaid Inn Rye. It was a hospital inhabited by monks and was added to in the 15th Century when it was the village workhouse. Its position was originally on the shoreline below the town and outside the defensive walls. It is full of period detail with has low oak beamed ceilings in many of the rooms, winding stairs, inglenook fireplaces in both the lounge and dining room, leaded windows.

Strand House has Bedrooms with Character

Strand Guest House Rye has ten bedrooms, all of which are different in character size and style. They range from the luxury four poster Tudor Room to rooms with double beds, king and twin, a garden room on the ground floor and a family room. Two have baths and the rest en-suite showers, all have colour televisions, tea making facilities with hand made biscuits and hanging space. The superior rooms have tables and chairs and fluffy dressing gowns and use of a DVD / video library.

Strand House is surrounded by Medieval Rye & Winchelsea

The historic medieval towns of Rye and Winchelsea are within walking distance and can fill a day, looking in shops, eating in tea rooms, walking the cobbled Mermaid Street and admiring the local architecture. The house is an ideal base for exploring the local houses and gardens in the area such as Great Dixter and we have many National Trust properties within a comfortable drive including Sissinghurst, Batemans, Scotney Castle, Smallhythe Place, and Bodiam Castle. For steam enthusiasts, there is the Ronmey Hythe and Dymchurch railway, Tenterden Railway and Bluebell railways.