The register

Spaces, by town

How big each house is, how social it is, and what it is like to hold a call from. Some run a timetable of events; some hand you a key and leave you alone. That difference matters more over four weeks than the price does.

Still on record

Houses that have shut

Some of them shaped what exists on this coast now — residents left and opened places of their own. At least one still has a live website quoting nightly rates it cannot honour.

Before you book four weeks anywhere

Five questions worth asking a house first — starting with the internet speed in the room you will actually sleep in.