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St.Michaels/Oxford If you’re to the manor born, especially one by the water, here’s one for you. The inn’s brochure or website cannot possibly convey the totality in all its glory. Drive down a one-third-mile-long driveway lined with trees and daylilies and enter another world. Set among arching willows and sixteen mature magnolia trees on ten acres along the banks of Brigham’s Cove is an 18th-century Georgian manor house, flanked by a caretaker’s cottage and a carriage house. The property was saved in 1996 by Dr. Mahmood Shariff, an area cardiologist, and his wife Ann. She and resident innkeeper Cathy Magrogan transformed the complex into a sumptuous B&B. In the brick manor dating to 1730, fireplaced common rooms unfold from one end of house to the other. A spacious living room done in sprightly floral chintz leads into a Queen Anne-style dining room. A cozy library is paneled in green. The awesome kitchen opens onto a breakfast room with tiled floor and curving, floor-to-ceiling windows onto lawns and water. Upstairs are two guest rooms and two suites, including the majestic Magnolia Suite with a kingsize canopy bed, working fireplace and a bathroom the size of many a bedroom, equipped with a double jacuzzi, double vanity and enormous walk-in shower. Off the bedroom is a private waterfront balcony, overlooking some of the sixteen towering magnolias in full bloom at our visit. All Combsberry guest quarters enjoy water views, five have fireplaces and four have jacuzzis. Two cottage suites with jacuzzis share a living room and dining area in a newly built carriage house. The joint common room here has french doors onto an arched brick veranda overlooking the water and is often used for executive retreats. Those seeking the ultimate in privacy opt for the Oxford Cottage, with a plush living room, efficiency kitchen and jacuzzi bath on the main floor and a queen brass bed upstairs. French doors open onto a brick terrace enclosed in a white picket fence. Lawns dotted with Adirondack chairs lead to water’s edge, where there’s a dock with a couple of canoes. As innkeeper Cathy pointed out salient features, she paused to haul up a crab trap. The contents would go into the next morning’s crabmeat omelets, the finale to a breakfast including fresh fruit cup and home-baked breads. (410) 226-5353. Fax (410) 228-1453. E-mail: info@combsberry.net For more information: www.combsberry.net Two rooms, two suites and three cottages with
private baths. Doubles, $250. Suites, $295 and $395. Cottages, $350.
Children over 12. Material excerpted from Inn Spots & Special Places/Mid-Atlantic, by Nancy and Richard Woodworth. Copyright 2003. Wood Pond Press E-mail feedback to: Home
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