Property News · December 11, 2015

Let’s move to the east Norfolk coast


Fashionable before it started falling into the sea, this stretch of coast has great beaches and affordable property. Just watch those waves…What’s going for it? A cautionary tale about property. Before the North Norfolk Coast was the North Norfolk Coast, the East Norfolk Coast was the North Norfolk Coast. If you see what I mean. The stretch east of Cromer became the place to be seen in the late 19th century, after the Daily Telegraph theatre critic Clement Scott stumbled upon the quaint fishing hamlet of Overstrand and wrote about the idyllic cottages of what he dubbed “Poppy-Land”. Fancy friends, such as actors Ellen Terry and Henry Irving, followed, and soon all sorts of metropolitan types wanted a piece of this patch of Norfolk. Country piles, cutesy cottages and slick hotels were built by cutting-edge architects including Edwin Lutyens, and Overstrand became the “village of millionaires”. Then someone realised they were building on land as sturdy as cookie dough. Cliffs fell, grand designs dissolved into the sea. Less snooty holidaymakers took root in chalets and bungalows. Today this stretch can still be idyllic, with lofty church towers, flinty barns and dunes. Just don’t get too close to the waves.The case against Pick your spot verrrrry carefully. The advance of the sea is taken seriously here. Some parts are more developed than others, with holiday chalets, bungalows, gas terminals and the like, so you might have to root about a bit. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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