This is an early 19th century building, with an extension about 1900. It was converted into a hotel in the middle of the 20th century.

For many years, Uplands was run as a guest house and it did not become a licensed hotel until 1964. It appears not to be a hotel now (it's just called Uplands House, with no obvious hotel signage).

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson lived in this building between 1841 and 1852. She was the first woman in Britain to qualify as a physician (as a woman*) and also became the country's first female mayor, of Aldeburgh, in 1908. The poet George Crabbe (1754-1832) also lived here.

It was also the birthplace of leading Suffragist Millicent Garrett Fawcett.

A rapturous description of the business is given in Ronald Blythe's 2013 book 'The Time By The Sea' which devotes a whole chapter to this establishment and how top visiting artists to the Aldeburgh Festival were then invited to stay there. It was also where poet George Crabbe was apprenticed.***