In the middle of Worthing
The pier, the Lido, the museum, the Connaught Theatre, the high street, all within five to ten minutes' walk. Leave the car when you arrive; you won't need it again.
About Sea Front Stays
Four homes,
built to last.
Three apartments in a building we designed and constructed from the ground up. One town house in a town we like. Run by the people who built them.
The short version
We're a small operation, run by hand.
Sea Front Stays is the lettings arm of Strenson West Sussex Ltd, a family-run business. Alex is your host and built Perch House. Heather runs housekeeping. A small team of chefs, front-of-house and maintenance from our cafés and restaurants down the road back them up; someone can always be reached, but never in the way.
Everything you see on this site, the price, the photos, the calendar, is what you'll actually walk into. No agency markups, no portfolio of properties we've never visited.
Perch House, Lancing seafront
The building.
Perch House is a ZEDfactory design by Bill Dunster MBE, the architect behind BedZED in Sutton, Britain's first carbon-neutral residential community. We commissioned ZEDfactory to design Perch House from the ground up, and built it as one of the largest low-carbon residential buildings on the south coast.
The whole building is constructed to Passivhaus standards. Heavily insulated, airtight, triple-glazed, with mechanical heat recovery throughout. The roof is wrapped in 75 kW of solar, including a glass solar canopy that lets light through to the top-floor balconies while it works. Over the course of a year, the building generates more energy than it consumes.
75 kW
Of rooftop & canopy solar
Net+
Energy producer, year on year
Passive
House construction standard
3×
Glazed throughout
Inside the flats
What it feels like to stay.
Glass solar canopy
A glass-panel solar array runs the length of the roof, generates electricity AND lets light through. You can sit on the top-floor balcony and watch the panels work.
Triple-glazed throughout
The seafront sounds like the seafront should, gulls, surf, occasional wind, never traffic. Floor-to-ceiling glass, but quiet.
Wide balconies on every flat
South-facing, overlooking the beach. Big enough to actually sit out and eat on. Most guests spend more time here than they expect to.
Underfloor heating
Warm feet on cold mornings, no radiators to work around when you're laying out a room.
The Perch downstairs
Our café occupies the ground floor of the building. Coffee from 7am, pastries baked in the morning. Most guests start their day there.
Direct beach access
The shingle starts twenty seconds from the lobby door. Walk to the water in flip-flops; come back to a hot shower.
A genuinely rare thing
A free gym on the beach.
Built into the ground floor of Perch House, opening straight onto the shingle. Free for every guest at any of our flats, no booking, no day passes, no leisure-centre membership. The view from the cardio machines is the sea you'll be swimming in later.
Run a kilometre on the treadmill, walk straight out the door, and you're in the water. That's the kind of place this is.
The Ann Street House, Worthing
A town house, right in the heart of it.
Different building, different mood. A three-bedroom Worthing town house in the bustling centre of town, five minutes' walk from the pier and fourteen from the station.
Loft TV room
A separate top-floor sitting room, perfect for families, kids with too much energy, or anyone wanting a quiet film while the rest of the house carries on.
Restaurants on the doorstep
Three of our own, Perch on the Pier, Perch on the Parade and Ebb, are a short walk away. The Signal Post (Alex's favourite pub), The Egremont, The Flour Pot bakery too.
Who runs it
A small team, all local.
Alex
Your host. Commissioned Perch House and ran the build; runs Sea Front Stays day-to-day. Picks up evenings and weekends.
Heather
Head housekeeper. The person whose standards you'll feel every time you check in. Around most days for anything housekeeping-related.
The wider team
Chefs and front-of-house from our cafés and restaurants down the road. Someone can always be at the door quickly if anything's not right.
What else is at Perch House