THE BATH HOUSE ✦ Est. 1868 ✦ 14 AT THE TABLE ✦ bowling till late ✦ CINEMA ROOM ✦ Sleeps eleven ✦ 100M TO THE BEACH ✦ THE BATH HOUSE ✦ Est. 1868 ✦ 14 AT THE TABLE ✦ bowling till late ✦ CINEMA ROOM ✦ Sleeps eleven ✦ 100M TO THE BEACH ✦ THE BATH HOUSE ✦ Est. 1868 ✦ 14 AT THE TABLE ✦ bowling till late ✦ CINEMA ROOM ✦ Sleeps eleven ✦ 100M TO THE BEACH ✦
The great room at The Bath House at twilight — full-length bowling lane, chandeliers lit, blue sky through the skylights
Est. 1868
West Hill Road
St Leonards-on-Sea
East Sussex

A Grade II bath house with a bowling lane inside.

Whole-house hire on the Sussex coast. Eleven beds, fourteen at the feasting table, a private cinema room, and a full-length bowling lane installed in the great room in 2015.

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BOWLING TILL LATE ✦ CINEMA ROOM ✦ SLEEPS 11 ✦ EST. 1868 ✦ BOWLING TILL LATE ✦ CINEMA ROOM ✦ SLEEPS 11 ✦ EST. 1868 ✦
The house

Built in 1868 as a bath house for bathers off the Sussex sea.

It spent its first century cleaning up the tired and salty, lost its original purpose around the time indoor plumbing got reasonable, and drifted into the dusty afterlife that Grade II listed buildings tend to find themselves in.

In 2015 it was taken on by a family who did the big thing: installed a full-length ten-pin bowling lane inside the great room, built a private cinema room, and sat a fourteen-seat feasting table down the middle.

It changed hands again in 2025. The story kept going.

Great room
Bath House entrance
Copper bath
Kitchen
Great room evening
What it's for

Six ways to use the house.

The great room in daylight, chandeliers, trusses, bowling lane
Stays

Whole-house hire for eleven. Bowling lane always included, cinema whenever you want it.

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The great room dressed for a candlelit reception feast
Celebrations

Small wedding receptions, milestone birthdays, long feasts at the 14-seat table.

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The cinema room in use, guests gathered for a late screening, premium stag and hen weekends at The Bath House
Stag & Hen

Premium stag, hen and milestone weekends. Bowling lane, cinema room, 14-seat table, sleeps 11.

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Master bedroom with sloped ceiling and king bed
Retreats

Writing weeks, team off-sites, songwriting camps. Ninety minutes from London.

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The Bath House exterior on West Hill Road
Filming

Grade II interiors, seafront light, ground-floor loading. Producers welcome.

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The great room at dusk viewed from the entrance hall
Events

Private dining at fourteen, brand dinners, workshops, supper clubs, away days.

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Room by room.

Exterior
01 · Exterior
Great room
02 · Great room
14
seats at the
feasting table
Master bedroom
03 · Master bedroom
Cinema
04 · Cinema room
bowling
till late
Great room at dusk
05 · Dusk in the great room
Kitchen
06 · Kitchen
Copper bath
07 · Copper bath
100m
to the
Sussex sea
Feast
08 · Feast dressed
Terrace
09 · Sun terrace
One bowling lane · always included

It starts with a roll.

ROLL · ROLL · ROLL · ROLL · ROLL · ROLL · ROLL · ROLL

A full-length ten-pin lane, wooden, running the length of the great room under vintage fairground signage that came with the house. We leave the pins reset. You bring the aim.

There is a cinema room inside the house

Start the screening.

Reveal the cinema
Cinema in use
Cinema Cinema detail
The facts

The house, in numbers.

0
Year built · Grade II since
0
Beds · three bedrooms
0
Seats at the feasting table
1lane
Bowling · full length
1cinema
Projector · fixed seating
0m
To the Sussex sea
Feast at dusk
After dark,

candles come out, the lane gets busy, and the feast goes on.

The house is for.

  • 01Weekends with your favourite eleven
  • 02Wedding receptions (after the registry bit)
  • 03Filming and photoshoots
  • 04Songwriting camps and creative off-sites
  • 05Long dinners at the fourteen-seat table
  • 06The birthday you've been putting off

Here's what we ask.

  • 01Quiet from 11pm. The neighbours sleep here too.
  • 02No amplified music outside or after 11pm.
  • 03Eleven sleeping. Up to thirty for dinner if you bring a caterer.
  • 04Dogs welcome on the ground floor, not on the upstairs bedding.
  • 05Tell us if it is a milestone, we will help shape the weekend.
  • 06Leave it as you found it (or close to).

Come get the keys.

Tell us when, who, and what for. Ben reads every enquiry himself, which is either charming or exhausting depending on the week. Usually charming.

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