The Town House Brighton

19 New Steine (Brighton, East Sussex) BN2 1PD

A fabulous breakfast is available from 08:00 to 10:30. Breakfast offers a range of choices, including a continental breakfast and a generous full English breakfast, cooked to order. Fresh croissants and the morning’s papers are provided every day and continental breakfasts can also be served to your room.

Situated in the basement, the hotel’s superb restaurant and bar is called Alexander’s Gastronomy. The restaurant offers fine dining and high-quality food, with evening meals available from 17:30 to 22:00, Tuesday to Saturday. The restaurant is closed Sundays and Mondays.

The Town House is a unique, singular, privately owned hotel. The partners feel strongly that a hotel should be a place of calm, but also a place of imagination and frivolity, and have therefore created a hotel unlike any other you will have seen before.

The Town House Brighton has been designed by the international design partnership of Lionel Dumas and Maarten Hoffmann (344 Design Limited). The hotel is based on the partner’s favourite locations around the globe. Not content to follow the well-trodden path of boutique hotels, the Town House goes further - a long, long way further.

The hotel is in the New Steine, which is a lovely grass square on Brighton’s seafront, only 100 yards away from St James's Street, the heart of Kemptown. Kemptown is one of Brighton’s trendiest and most vibrant areas, full of great restaurants, pubs and clubs. The pier, the conference centre and all of Brighton’s great shopping centres are within easy walking distance.

The Townhouse can be found right in the hub of Brighton’s trendy Kemptown district. Set on the east side of New Steine, the hotel is within a short walk of many of Brighton's famous attractions, including the Royal Pavilion and the Palace Pier. There are countless bars and restaurants that are also within easy walking distance of the hotel.

The hotel enjoys an unobstructed view of the sea, and you can reach the seafront on foot in just a couple of minutes.

Brighton Pier, also known as Palace Pier is just 500 metres from the hotel. Originally built at a record cost in the 1890s, the pier now features amusement arcades, restaurants and a funfair.

Volk's Electric Railway is also about 500 metres away. Running from the aquarium to the popular Marina leisure complex, the railway was built in 1883 by Magnus Volk and is now the world's oldest electric railway.

Brighton Royal Pavilion is just 700 metres from the hotel. This ornate former royal residence was built in the early 19th century and was once the home of the Prince Regent. Today, the pavilion is open to visitors and Brighton's museum and art gallery are housed on the site.

Each of the rooms is unique and has been individually designed by an international interior design team. Every room is themed and you can choose from the Parisienne Room, the Zen Room, the Cosmos Room, the Kasbah Room, the Alpine Room, the Colonial Room, the Jungle Room and the Mandarin Room.

Every gorgeous room offers exquisite comfort and sumptuous luxury. The rooms are not just themed; they totally transport you to that time and place. The props used in the rooms are all 100% genuine and from that location and era. For example, the Colonial Room is designed to recreate the feel of the Governor’s Mansion in Calcutta in the heady days of the British Empire and the Raj. The Raj map that adorns one wall is an original hand-painted map from 1892, showing the locations and dates of the massacres and mutinies of the time. The books on the shelves are all authentic and of the period. The photographs on the walls are of the governor’s family on a day out bagging tigers and the rug on the floor is one of those tigers. On the top shelf, you will see the bugle of the Eighth Calcutta Lancers, the last British regiment to leave India.

The Alpine Room offers a 100% pine log cabin in the mountains, with wooden skis from 1910, a cuckoo clock hand-made in the Black Forest, a view of the snow-capped Alps and a shimmering log fire.

Everything is purist and genuine and aims to transport you off on an imaginative fantasy.

French Trompe l’Oeil artist Lionel Dumas has created some stunning original artwork in the form of murals that adorn many rooms and help capture the era.

By Car (from London):
- Take the M23/A23 until you reach Brighton.
- Continue to the seafront and then turn immediately left (heading east) along Marine Parade.
- New Steine will open up on your left after about 300 metres.

By Car (from the West/East):
- Follow the A27 into Brighton until you reach the A23.
- Then turn off into the town centre.
- From there, continue to the seafront and follow the instructions for London above.

Parking:
Public parking is available at an additional cost on New Steine, the square where the hotel is located. There is no time limit restriction on parking. Alternatively, the nearest public car park is the NCP car park, just off Brighton’s High Street. From Marine Parade, take the 3rd right after New Steine into Camelford Street. Proceed across the junction into High Street, and the car park is on the right-hand side.

By Train:
The hotel is approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from Brighton’s central train station. From the station, you can take the number 37 bus, the number 37A bus or the number 52 bus, all of which pass by the Townhouse. Alternatively, taxis are readily available from just outside the station. You can also walk to the hotel from the station: exit the main entrance and continue down Queen's Road towards the sea until you reach the clock tower. Then turn left (heading east) and continue on down North Street. When you reach the Old Steine at the bottom of the hill, continue straight ahead, up St James's Street until New Steine opens up on your right.