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 Bath House on West Hill Road — a seafront retreat in St Leonards-on-Sea
Retreats
Sleeps 11
90 minutes from London
Deliberately quiet

A writing retreat on the Sussex seafront.

Whole-house residential retreats for writers, songwriters and small teams. Sleeps 11, 90 minutes from London, deliberately quiet.

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What kinds of retreats

The house suits calm, concentrated work.

  • Writing retreats
  • Songwriting top-line sessions
  • Team off-sites
  • Small creative residencies
Honest about what it is

The Bath House is a writing, top-line songwriting and team off-site space. It is not a recording studio — we'd point you to our sister venue for tracking.

Getting here from London

London is straightforward. Charing Cross to Warrior Square takes about 90 minutes on the direct train — no changes, a short walk along West Hill Road to the house. Most retreats run Friday to Monday or Monday to Friday; the house opens at 3pm and closes at 11am on the final day.

Sample structures

Three shapes retreats tend to take.

3 days

3-day sprint

Arrive Friday afternoon for unpacking, a first dinner at the feasting table, and a short evening scoping session. Saturday runs as a full working day split across three blocks: deep-focus morning in the great room or cinema, shared lunch, collaborative afternoon, late-day review. Sunday morning closes the sprint with a final push and a lunch read-out before 2pm departure. Short, intense, enough time to move one specific thing forward.

5 days

5-day residential

Monday afternoon arrival and settle-in dinner. Tuesday through Thursday follow a rhythm: solo deep-work hours in the morning, shared lunch, collaborative sessions in the great room or on the sun terrace, dinner as a group. Friday holds space for a wider read-out, reflection, and the long drive or train home by lunchtime. The mid-week pattern is productive on purpose — enough space to go deep, enough structure to keep groups moving.

7 days

7-day writing block

A full week with the house to yourselves. Arrival Sunday, departure the following Sunday. Weekdays follow a long-form writing rhythm: morning solo blocks, shared lunch at the feasting table, afternoon revision or collaborative sessions, early evening dinner, optional after-dinner cinema. The weekend on either side creates travel room and decompression. Best suited to book projects, drafts with real ambition, or residencies that need to settle before they move.

Retreat enquiries

Whole-house, for the block.

Retreat blocks are quoted around the dates, group size, catering needs and level of support you want from us. Send the shape of the retreat and we will come back with the cleanest structure.

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Tell us what you're planning.

Dates, shape, headcount, any catering or accommodation requirements — the more you include, the faster we can come back with a concrete plan.

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