STELLAR ATTRACTION
In the dining room of The Star hotel, a portrait of an anonymous Elizabethan beauty stares out from her gilded frame with all the dignity and aristocratic bearing befitting a village that—legend has it—once hosted King Alfred (and his sadly overcooked cakes). Then, in an ingenious trick of technology, the motionless, white-ruffed woman in the picture blinks—and you know you’re in no ordinary lodging.
The buzzy anticipation of a new Polizzi hotel in Alfriston, in the heart of the
