A bed and breakfast business is all set for an official opening 11 months after it was damaged by a fallen tree.

Storms on December 23 last year brought a large conifer down on Seamead, on the corner of Oak Lane and Oak Avenue, Minster, smashing a fence and destroying its garden.

The business has welcomed around 10 groups from France since then but the entrance to the house has only recently been repaired.

It is now hoped it can be part of a burgeoning group of guest lodgings on the Island.

Owner Beverley Auston, who also runs the Old House at Home pub in Queenborough, said: “You would never have driven up and thought, oh that looks like a nice play to stay. It was such as disaster.

“The fences have all just been finished and the outside now looks amazing compared with how it used to look.

“You are only insured for the house to be covered so it’s been a long process to get it back to where it is now.”

The venue has three rooms which have all been fitted out in a traditional 1920s style by Mrs Auston’s interior designer son Nick Auston.

Mrs Auston said the site is baby and dog friendly and she hopes to hire the business out for murder mystery evenings.