Ups Telltale signs: price rises. Doubled in the past five years (but then, hasn’t everywhere?). Though still decent value and, as yet, nicely unposhed-up: you can still buy fishing gear from crabby shacks. The town is genteel and perfectly happy with itself, without being yet, dread word, discovered. Great ice cream.
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Downs The train. Still, at least it has one (quite a rarity around here). The realisation that some day soon all this will be candle shops.
Getting around A trek anywhere by car, but that’s Norfolk for you – and keep it out of the centre in summer. Blimey, that train’s slow: a very leisurely one hour to Norwich.
Time out Crab-eating. Fishing. Pretty countryside and cliff walks. Nice independent shops and a weekly market, though Tesco’s a-coming. The Sheringham Theatre.
Schools Sheringham Community Primary “very effective”, says Ofsted; the High School is “satisfactory”.
Property Bungalows a-go-go from £200,000. Flats in Edwardian/neat modern blocks: one-bed, £90,000-£120,000, two, £115,000-£160,000. Terraces, £160,000; semis from £170,000; four-bedroom detacheds £200,000-£400,000. It’s the old cottages and fishermen’s houses in the tight streets that are the find: £160,000-£250,000. Agents such as Brown & Co (01263 822488) on Station Road.
Bargain of the week Charming, three-bedroom, flint-fronted cottage, one street from the sea, £150,000 with Keys
