The Owners

Tinsmith’s House is the latest previously light-industrial or workshop building that we have had as a home. It is our only B&B, we are not a chain. Tinsmith’s House is the accommodation offer that compliments our art activities that can be seen at Contemporary and Country (C&C). The interior of Tinsmith’s House has been installed with works of contemporary art, some by artists working internationally, others more local to us. All have been carefully selected over many years to complement the decor of the house.

We have had long and successful careers working in commercial design and promoting contemporary art and having reached a certain age found that we were looking for a change in direction, after moving from central London to Aylsham. With its flexible layout from its former industrial heritage, Tinsmith’s House offers the best option for us as B&B accommodation in an idiosyncratic, hand-built package in a quiet, relaxing location.

We are constantly renewing our interests in our chosen fields of art and design and this is reflected in the interior of Tinsmith’s House. It would be too pretentious to call what we have a ‘collection’, but what we have bought over the years is more cohesive than a random selection of household clobber. Whatever it is, it has found a new coherence around the house and it is this combination of old and new, designer baubles along side low-grade junk, mixed with antiques that sits so well within Tinsmith’s hand-crafted feel.