Dining Room and Upstairs Sitting Room. Enjoy the charm of a cottage by the sea Whether you've travelled from near or far, Brixham offers a place of tranquility and Overquay Cottage compliments this environment with pleasant interior decor combined with modern facilities. The spacious kitchen and dining room provide an ideal setting to entertain. Why not cook up some local seafood and dine in front of the cosy fire. Or treat yourself to some fish and chips from a local shop minutes away. The upstairs sitting room has a spectacular view of the harbour. From the comfy sofa and chairs you can relax and talk about the day's adventures, watch television or play a board game. Then there are the three very comfortablebedrooms. The two twin and one double bedroom provide the perfect place to rest up after a busy day. Warm decor and comfortable bedding will ensure you get the sleep you need and the view of the harbour from the top floor bedroom may make the lie-ins longer. A family bathroom can be found on the first floor and a shower room on the second floor. To complete the cottage, there is a small courtyard which is a real sun trap and is perfect for barbeques. Twin Bedroom with harbourside views. Eating and Drinking Brixham boasts a large variety of pubs and restaurants catering to all tastes. There are fresh fish outlets, local shops and a supermarket minutes away. You can also order food in from our local restaurants. Overquay Cottage Key Features. Grade 2 Listed Cottage. - Large furnished ground floor dining room with living flame fireplace. Large bay window with window seat and two comfy chairs. - Large Kitchen equipped with gas oven, hob and grill, microwave, dishwasher, fridge/freezer, washing machine, and tumble dryer. French doors opening onto courtyard. - Upstairs Lounge with comfy seating for 6 people with stunning harbour views. TV and board games. - 3 bedrooms; 2 twin bedrooms, 1 double bedroom. - Bed linen and towels provided. - 1 bathroom with bath, 1 shower room. - Rear courtyard with barbeque and seating. Kitchen, Courtyard, Dining room, Bay Window overlooking harbour. Sitting room with fabulous harbour views. Bathroom; Bath, WC, Basin. Bedroom 1; Double Bed. Bedroom 2; Twin beds with stunning views. Bedroom 3; Twin beds. Bathroom; Shower, WC and basin.

Within its own grounds This 9 bedroom guest housel is set in its own grounds providing you with car parking and a lawned garden in which to relax and experience peace and tranquility, just a five minute walk from the bustling port of Brixham. A warm welcome Whatever time of the year there will be a warm welcome for you on arrival or after a busy day when you can relax in comfort after sightseeing or exploring the many and varied places in Brixham and south Devon. Full facilities at your service We offer you all the comforts you need to enjoy your stay in Brixham, en suite bedrooms, either with shower or bath, with colour television, clock radio and tea and coffee making facilities. Children are welcome The hotel has two rooms which are ideal for a typical family to use as a base for a happy holiday in Brixham. There's space for the children to play in the garden with Breakwater Beach being just a few minutes walk from the hotel. Eating and Drinking Brixham boasts a large variety of pubs and restaurants catering to all tastes, and we are happy to make recommendations should you require. Ranscombe House Hotel Key Features. All rooms En-Suite with comfortable bedding. Tea/Coffee making facilities. Most rooms have sea-views. - Delicious English Breakfast served in the dining room daily. Fruit, Toast, Cereals, Orange juice, and Homemade Marmalade provided. - Large gardens with sea-views and tabled seating areas available for those sunny days. - Off street car park. - Bar available to guests. Limited opening. - TV room and sitting room for guests to relax in. - Tourist information available to guests. - Concessions available for 3-day and weekly stays.

For Tariffs please scroll down to next page. Room RateBed and Breakfast. Sea view room (1 or 2 Nights). Non sea view room With bathroom (1 or 2 Nights). Non sea view room With shower room (1 or 2 Nights). Single Room With Shower room. Non sea view room With bathroom. Non sea view room With shower room. Single Room with Shower room sharing a room with 2 adults. Smoking is not permitted anywhere in the building. Check out time is 10.30 a.m.We welcome children and have 2 family rooms on the 2nd floor.

Brixham is famous for being the landing spot of William III of Orange with his Dutch army on November 5, 1688 during the Glorious Revolution, and many local people still have Dutch surnames, being direct descendants of soldiers in that army. A road leading from the harbour up a steep hill to where the Dutch made their camp is still called Overgang, meaning 'transition' in Dutch. The coffin house reflects Brixham humour: it is coffin-shaped and when a father was asked for the hand in marriage of his daughter, he said he would 'see her in a coffin, before she wed'. The son in- law to be bought the coffin-shaped property, called it the Coffin House and went back to the father and said 'your wishes will be met, you will see your daughter in a coffin, the Coffin House'. Amazed by this, the father gave his blessing.. The street names tell you about the history. Pump street is where the village pump stood. Monksbridge was a bridge built by the monks of Totnes Priory. Lichfield Drive reminds us that this was the route that the dead (from the Anglo-Saxon lich meaning a corpse) were taken for burial at St Marys churchyard. Salutation Mews, near that church, dates from when England was Catholic, and the salutation was to the Virgin Mary. Similarly, Laywell Road recalls Our Ladys well. The first building that you see when you come into Brixham from Paignton is the old white-boarded Toll House where all travellers had to pay a fee to come into the town and to keep the roads repaired. As you look into Brixham from the harbour, you see the tower of All Saints' Church standing guard over the town. It was founded in 1815, and its most famous vicar was the Rev. Francis Lyte, composer of Abide with Me. He lived at Berry Head House, now a hotel, and when he was a very sick man, near to dying, he looked out from his garden as dusk fell over Torbay, and the words of that beautiful hymn came into his mind as the evening of the day and of his life approached. The main church in the town is St. Mary's, about a mile from the sea, it is the third to have been on the site, which was an ancient Celtic burial ground. The original wooden Saxon church was replaced by a stone Norman one that was in its turn built over in about 1360. Many of the old Brixham worthies are buried in the churchyard, but, remember, it is very unlucky indeed to walk widershins, or anti-clockwise, around the church. Brixham is also famous for being the town where the fishing trawler was invented.These elegant wooden boats were invented in Brixham in the 19th century, and copied all over the world, influencing fishing fleets everywhere. Their distinctive sails even inspired the song 'Red Sails in the Sunset' which was written aboard a Brixham sailing trawler called the 'Torbay Lass'. In the Middle Ages, Brixham was the largest fishing port in the South-West, and at one time it was the greatest in England. Known as the Mother of Deep-Sea Fisheries, its boats sailed all round the coats and helped to establish the fishing industries of Hull, Grimsby and Lowestoft. In the 1890s there were about 300 trawling vessels here, each owned by one man who was often the skipper of his own boat. There is still a big fishing fleet, and you can seen them coming in and out of the harbour, followed by flocks of seagulls. The fish market is open to the public on two special days in the summer, when the finer points of catching and cooking fish will be explained to you. The modern boats are diesel-driven, but several of the old sailing trawlers have been preserved and are being brought back to life. Hundreds of ships have been wrecked on the rocks here. Brixham men always have known the dangers but even they were taken by surprise by the terrible storm that blew up on the night of January 10th, 1866. The fishing boats only had sails then and could not get back into harbour because gale force winds and the high waves were against them. To make things worse, the beacon on the breakwater was swept away, and in the black darkness they did not know where they were. According to local legend, their wives brought everything they could carry, including furniture and bedding, to make a big bonfire on the quayside to guide their men home. If their husbands and sons perished, there was no future for the rest of the family so what did it matter if they burnt all their poor possessions. Fifty vessels perished and more than one hundred lives were lost in the storm; when dawn broke the wreckage stretched for nearly three miles up the coast. Hearing of this tragedy, the citizens of Exeter gave money to set up what became the RNLI's Torbay lifeboat, which has rescued hundreds of people. Since 1866 located at Brixham, Torbay lifeboat station has operated an all weather lifeboat and today the station also has an inshore D class lifeboat. The crews have a remarkable history of bravery with 52 awards for gallantry. You can visit the boathouse and look at all the memorials to the brave deeds; on special occasions you can go on board, see how survivors are cared for, and wonder at all the high-tech equipment. You may perhaps, one day or one night, hear two maroons fired. That is the signal for the lifeboat to be launched and within a few minutes you will see the crew, rushing from their jobs or their beds, ready to save the lives of strangers with no thought of any danger to themselves, as they have done for the last 130 years. There have always been smugglers at Brixham. It was more profitable than fishing, but if the men were caught, they were hanged. There are many legends about the local gangs and how they evaded the Revenue men. One humourous poem describes how a notorious local character, Bob Elliott, could not run away because he had gout and was hidden in a coffin, but later that same night the coastguards were frightened by meeting what they thought was his ghost. Another old villain was caught in possession but evaded capture by pretending to be the Devil, rising out of the morning mists. On another occasion when there was a cholera epidemic, some Brixham smugglers drove their cargo up from the beach in a hearse, accompanied by a bevy of supposed mourners following the cortege drawn by horses with funerial muffled hooves. The town's harbour is protected by a long breakwater, which is well used for sea angling. In winter this is a regular site for Purple Sandpipers, and a North American Laughing Gull, thought to have been brought across the Atlantic by Hurricane Wilma, was present here in autumn 2005. To the south of Brixham, and sheltering the southern side of its harbour, lies the coastal headland of Berry Head. Which has a Lighthouse, Iron Age Fort National Nature Reserve. [edit]. Apart from fishing, most of the other local industries were connected with our rocks. Limestone was once quarried extensively. It was used to build the breakwater, for houses and roads, and was sent to Dagenham to make steel for Ford cars. It was also burnt in limekilns to reduce it to a powder which was spread on the land in other parts of Devon as an agricultural fertiliser. You will see the old quarries and the limekilns as you walk around the town. Another mineral found in Brixham is ochre. This gave the old fishing boats their Red Sails in the Sunset, but the purpose was to protect the canvas from seawater, not to be picturesque. It was boiled in great caldrons, together with tar, tallow and oak bark, the last ingredient giving the name of barking yards to the places where the hot mixture was painted on to the sails, which were then hung up to dry. The ochre was also used to make a very special paint. This was invented in Brixham in about 1845 and was the first substance in the world that would stop cast iron from rusting. None of the well-known scientists of the day could find a way of doing this, and, when the paint began to be made here, it sold all round the globe. Other types of paint were made here as well, and t...

 Baby chairs and cots are provided
 Playground for children
 Credit cards accepted
 Hairdryer
 Ironing facilities
 Licensed bar
 Smoke-free guest rooms
 Parking lot
 Private park, garden, courtyard
 Clock/radio
 Private/Ensuite bathroom
 Tea and coffee making facilities
 Phone at reception
 TV sets in rooms
 Patio, summer terrace
 Common room with a TV set