Chapter one
Verdigris
The green room at the top of the painted stair.
From £180 a night · Sleeps 2 · Kingsize canopy
Kemptown, Brighton
An English
riad by
the sea
Maren House is a Regency townhouse turned inward: nine rooms around a painted stair, a walled courtyard where the city goes quiet, and a rooftop that trades chimney pots for a line of sea.
The idea of the house
Colour, courtyards and doing very little, beautifully
We borrowed the logic of a Marrakech riad and let a Brighton townhouse wear it. The rooms face inward to light wells and greenery, every floor is painted a colour you could name from across the street, and the day is built around long breakfasts, the plunge pool, and the roof at six o'clock.
- Rooms
- Nine, no two alike
- Courtyard
- Walled and fig-shaded
- Rooftop
- Sea on the horizon
- Breakfast
- Served until midday
The rooms
Six colours, six chapters
Each room is named for the pigment on its walls and set down here like the part-titles of a book. Read the house cover to cover, pick a colour, and the house will do the rest.
Chapter two
Madder
Rose-pink suite with a sitting room and sea light.
From £240 a night · Sleeps 2 · Super king
Chapter three
Saffron
Ochre double above the courtyard lanterns.
From £165 a night · Sleeps 2 · Kingsize
Chapter four
Indigo
Blue-black hideaway made for late risers.
From £170 a night · Sleeps 2 · Kingsize
Chapter five
Oxblood
Burgundy double with the best bath in Brighton.
From £195 a night · Sleeps 2 · Kingsize
Chapter six
Olive
Garden-level room opening straight onto the courtyard.
From £155 a night · Sleeps 2 · Queen
Beyond your room
Up to the roof, down to the water
Four guest-only spaces stacked through the house, from the steam room below stairs to the sea line on the roof.
The high point
The Rooftop
A terrace above the square with daybeds, potted olives and a straight line of sea between two chimney stacks. Breakfast moves up here on fine mornings; from five o'clock it turns to sherry, spritzes and the good crisps.
See the spaceThe quiet centre
The Courtyard
A walled garden at the heart of the house, shaded by a fig that predates all of us, with a heated plunge pool tiled in the house green. The sound of the city stops at the wall. Most guests lose an afternoon here without noticing.
See the spaceThe house in colour
Painted like a paintbox
Nine rooms, four spaces and one very opinionated paint chart. Until you visit, here is the palette the house is painted in, wall by wall.
Viridian
the stairwell
Madder rose
the first floor
Saffron
the landing lamps
Indigo
the quiet rooms
Oxblood
the snug bar
Olive
the courtyard door
Guests, quoted with permission
“Like sleeping inside a paintbox, in the best possible way. We did not leave the courtyard until checkout.”
“The rooftop at six with a sherry and that thin stripe of sea. I think about it weekly.”
“Dark room, heavy curtains, no alarm. The single best night of sleep I have had in years.”
Book direct
The best of the house, kept for those who book direct
- Lowest rate anywhere, guaranteed
- Late checkout on Sundays
- A drink on the roof, on us, on arrival
- First choice of room moves and upgrades
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