Margells

Reviews:

- We hardly recognised it at first because we're used to the Handbook picture which is taken from the garden not the road, which it comes right up to (see picture below). Branscombe is a series of hamlets spread amongst a number of combes that converge on the sea. It was quiet in February but I imagine could get quiet touristy in summer (there were a number of 'please don't park outside this house' signs...). Margells is in Street, which has the the sort of unpretentious, friendly, quiet pub (The Fountain Head) that's all too rare, added to which it sells beer made in the village and local cider.

Front and back doors open onto a hallway separated by wooden 'screens' from the Kitchen and Living rooms. The screens and the molded ceilings give these rooms a warm, woody feel. The whole ground floor has stone flagged floors, which could be cold on the feet were it not for underfloor heating, which makes it very cosy. Upstairs the rooms extend up to the rafters so feel a lot roomier and airy, if cooler. 

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