# Earls Hall, Suffolk, East Anglia

Imposing yet informal and comfortable house sleeping 16 with games room, for family holidays near Lavenham

## At a Glance

- Sleeps 6 - 16
- 6 bedrooms
- Dining for 16

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## Floor Plans

- No floor plans are available for this property.

## About The Property

Earls Hall is a 6 bedroom, 3 bathroom house in West Suffolk which can accommodate 18 people in normal times.

There used to be tenants in the wing so it is separable from the main house and a group of 6 can be comfortable in each part. We do not intend to offer the wing separately from the main house, only additionally.

Relaxed and with a good kitchen, the house is perfect for a quiet country weekend in a multi-generation group, or for a family celebration. Please note that there are neighbouring houses over the road so this is not the place for a noisy gathering.

The house has a certain dignity, dating back to the 17th century, and offers a warm and relaxed welcome to its guests. Bygone grandeur vies with the seventies style of some of the furnishings and wallpapers, which have survived the passing decades, adding humour and humanity to the house. This is a much loved, charismatic family home, offering the opportunity to get together with family or friends in a peaceful rural setting.

Earls Hall is set in 4 acres of beautifully kept organic gardens, with a stream, vegetable garden and orchard, of which guests are welcome to pick the produce. The garden and our adjoining fields are pesticide-free so the wildlife is abundant. There are good walks from the house.

In the bounds of the village of Cockfield in the heart of Suffolk, with only the former farmhouse and a couple of converted residential barns on the other side of the road, Earls Hall enjoys rural tranquility and dark skies at night. Lavenham, Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds, and Long Melford are all within easy reach by the hourly bus.

There is a post office in the village, offering fresh bread, fruit and veg and saucy greetings cards, or a good range of shops in Lavenham, including an excellent baker, a good country grocer with a cheese counter, a butcher and a late opening Co-op. The Three Horseshoes with pub food is a seven minute walk away.

Trains to Bury and Sudbury are linked by an hourly bus service stopping within 7 minutes walk of the house. We are 15 minutes drive from Bury St Edmunds, 20 minutes from Sudbury and 40 minutes from Stansted Airport. It's 1.5 hours drive to London.

## Facilities

- **Dog Friendly:** We have dogs and reasonably well behaved pets are welcome, but we ask people to poop scoop in the grounds for the sake of the gardener.
- **Accessibility:** No specific facilities. 2 downstairs lavs with basins but no shower. Showers upstairs have to be stepped up into. Each staircase has banister rail.
- **WiFi:** Landline and WiFi.
- **Kitchen:** The kitchen is modern and well equipped including an electric induction range cooker, a dish washer, and plenty of big pots and pans.
- **Dining Room:** The dining room has a wood burning stove and a table that can seat up to 16, or be expanded to accommodate more.
- **Sitting Room:** 3 rooms; 1 a gracious apartment with grand piano, 1 a book-lined telly room, 1 a games room with ping-pong table. 2 have comfortable double sofa beds.
- **TV and Music Facilities:** There is a telly, video, DVD, and there are masses of videos, books and games.
- **Games Room:** A ping pong table.
- **Heating and Open Fires:** 2 wood burning stoves and one open fire.
- **Bedrooms:** 1 quadruple bedroom with 2 double beds good for young families or groups of children, 2 twins and 3 doubles.
- **Linen:** Linen is provided - big towels, cotton sheets and cotton covered duvets.
- **Bathrooms:** 3 modern bathrooms, two including a separate shower, and 5 lavatories including the two downstairs, both of which have basins.
- **Children's Facilities:** Children love the books, games and videos. Games cupboard offers footballs, cricket bats, boules, croquet, badminton, fishing net, a few golf clubs.
- **Outdoor:** Table tennis set can be used outdoors. Outdoor pizza oven is very popular with kids. Stream running through garden. Large grassed area for football.
- **Swimming Pool:** You can paddle in the stream or drive or cycle a short distance to swim in the river.
- **Parking:** Limited parking off road for at most 5 cars.
- **Smoking:** Not objected to.

## Rental Rates

### Headline rates

- From **£2000** per week
- From **£1800** for a 3-night weekend
- From **£1500** for a 2-night weekend
- From **£400** per midweek night

### Additional rates

| Period | Weekly | 3 Night Weekend | 2 Night Weekend | Midweek per night |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| High season | £3200 | £2000 | £1800 | £350 |
| Low season | £2000 | £1800 | £1500 | - |

Prices shown in GBP.

## Availability

Please contact the owner for availability dates.

## Enquiry

- Enquiry link: https://www.groupaccommodation.com/properties/earls-hall-suffolk-east-anglia#enquiry

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### Address

Address: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP30 0JD, GB

Latitude: 52.146973

Longitude: 0.790329

### About The Area

Within the village of Cockfield in the heart of Suffolk, with 3 other houses over the road, We offer rural tranquillity. The house is accessible by public transport despite rural location.

### What's Nearby?

- **Location:** Lavenham. Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds, Stowmarket and Long Melford are all within easy reach.
- **Shop:** The post office in the village, or the good range of shops in Lavenham, including an excellent baker, coutry grocer with good cheese counter, a butcher and a late opening Co-op.
- **Food and Drink:** The Horseshoes inn with pub food is a 7 minute walk away.
- **Airport:** Stansted Airport is under 40 miles away.
- **Train:** Sudbury, via Marks Tey to London Liverpool Street and London Stratford. Bury St Edmunds, to Ipswich, Cambridge and Stansted Airport. Stowmarket has direct link to Liverpool Street and Norwich.
- **Bus:** An hourly bus service links Bury St Edmunds and Sudbury by day and passes within a seven minute walk of the house.

## Owner Contact Details

- Contact name: Mary Forshall
- Email: mary.earlshall@gmail.com
- Website: https://earls-hall.co.uk