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Maple Cottage: home from home

by margaretvn

We hired this wonderful little cottage for our week in Suffolk and it was marvellous. It is really an ideal place to base yourself while exploring Norfolk and Suffolk.
Although it is not far off the main road Diss/ Bury st. Edmonds you cannot hear the road while in the house. You do need a car to get about and to get to the house really.

The cottage is small - only for 2 people and is quiet. It is very well eqipped and on arrival we found some lovely little extras which made us feel very welcome. There were fresh flowers, in the fridge were eggs, bacon and bread, there was tea and coffee. The owner came around the first evening to check all was OK. We had a problem with the water not running away in the shower and it was repaired the same day. There is a lovely enclosed garden with a summer house. In the house there are boxes with so much information about things to do in the surrounding area. The owner has gone that extra mile to make your stay there great.

Delicious food great Location: Best view in Aldeburgh

by kevin36

Listed amongst The Independent and The Daily Mail’s top 10 seaside hotels in 2004, The Brudenell Hotel is really rather special. Situated at the southern end of Aldeburgh, close to the Sailing Club.

The Brudenell’s 42 bedrooms are all furnished to a very high standard and are decorated in a light, airy and relaxing style. Most have glorious views of the sea or the River Alde and its surrounding marshland.

In addition to the restaurant's award of two AA rosettes, The Brudenell has also achieved an AA quality rating of 78%, the highest score of any three-star hotel on the Suffolk coast and was runner up in the Small Hotel category in the 2004 Tourist Board awards.

Church Farm: Caravan Park

by kevin36

Pleasant, friendly site with well laid out pitches. Shower block and laundry room adequate. Tents are not allowed on this site, but awnings and trailer tents are OK. £15 per night with electricity hook-up, £12 without.
There are lovely views over the marshes toward Thorpeness. Unspoilt and natural pebble beach 5 minutes walk.
Some construction work currently in progress alongside the site but not too disruptive.
Walk 10 minutes into Aldeburgh town which is picturesque, lively and interesting. There is a cinema, plenty of bars and restaurants and I recommend the Cross Keys for a meal and the White Hart for good beer and frequent live blues music.
You can buy seafood directly from the local fishermen when the boats come in.
Walk along the beach to Thorpeness and on to Sizewell. If you enjoy wild-life walk along the dunes from Sizewell to Dunwich via Minsmere.
I have been visiting this site for many years and would recommend it to everyone.
This was a comment left by a guest last year 2004 who stayed there.

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Holiday: House in the Clouds

by kevin36

One of England?s famous Follies
One acre of private grounds overlooking Thorpeness mere and the sea. Close to Aldeburgh, Snape malting's and Minsmere. Self catering, spacious accommodation for a true family holiday.

After popular demand I have put a link on below for some of the Accommodation in the Aldeburgh area INCLUDING The House in the clouds.
Originally intended to provide an adequate storage capacity for a basic water supply for Thorpeness village.

Constructed by Braithwaite Engineering Company of London in 1923, it presented Thorpeness Estates with the difficult task of deciding what could be done with such a hideous structure on the skyline. Glencairne Stuart Ogilvie with F. Forbes Glennie (architect) & H. G Keep (works manager) brilliantly disguised it as a house and from miles around one can see what appears to be a cottage lodged in the trees, 70ft high. This cottage is in fact only the top part of the building which housed the water tank. It had a capacity of 50,000 gallons and was capable of pumping 1800 gallons of water an hour from a well in the re-erected Aldringham Mill with sufficient wind or a petrol engine used as an auxiliary power source in periods of calm. The supporting steel structure was boarded in to provide unique living accommodation below the tank.

The house is very sturdily built although it may seem the opposite, the water boarding providing protection against the elements and retaining the heat. The colouring is both decorative and practical. The many tiny windows providing good light, ventilation and beautiful views. The amount of accommodation is generous, originally having 7 bedrooms and 2 reception rooms. Now there are 5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms plus the splendid ‘room at the top’ from which the tank was removed in 1979. This was achieved by unbolting the 4ft x 4ft square sections and lowering them to the ground with the aid of the pulley on the north side of the house. The building has 68 stairs, which may sound daunting but the ingenious staircase provides a small landing in between each floor making it very easy to cope with.

Ocean House: Best B&B

by kevin36

This house is beautifully and simply decorated with period furniture, old rocking
Horses, Turkish rugs and open fireplaces. The two bedrooms - one double and one
Twin - on the first floor both with bay windows overhanging the beach and views
Right up and down Crag Path, have comfortable beds, en suite bath/shower rooms,
Colour televisions and tea and coffee trays. For visiting musicians they have a grand
Piano on the top floor studio which has panoramic views. There is table tennis in the
Cellar and a selection of old bikes which you may borrow to explore the surrounding
Countryside.
Ambiance: Wrap-around, sea views - you are almost on the beach. Phil Brereton, from Zimbabwe, and his wife, Juliet, are easy-going hosts happy to share this special place. The furniture is Victorian, some mahogany, some walnut; the colours are soft; the bed linen the kind you long to have at home. (White cotton crocheted bedspreads come from the market at Victoria Falls.) Here are old things, good taste, books and magazines galore, rugs on wooden floors, a special light through every window, and fresh milk and home-made biscuits on the bedside coffee/tea tray. You can borrow bikes, play table tennis in the cellar, and sail. Perfect.

Rooms and prices: One double with bath; one twin with shower: £70-£75 per room per night, single occupancy £60-£65 per night. Breakfast 8am-9.30am. Dinner by arrangement, from £12.50 to £15.

In a self-contained part of the house they accommodate four Master Class students
From the Bitten-Pears School of Advanced Musical Studies at Snape, and during
The winter the String Quartet in Residence stays with them for three months. Any
Music-making you may overhear is therefore of the highest standard!
It is occasionally possible to rent this house for self catering, or individual
Bedrooms as budget B&B accommodation.
Its advisable to phone first as they are very popular.

Butterfly House.: Stay with a farming family in Suffolk.

by worldkiwi

When I arrived in Beccles, Suffolk, I had no accommodation booked, so I went to the visitor information centre. They organised a B&B roughly halfway between Beccles and Bungay at a place called Kirby Cane. Butterfly House is a farming family's home and is surrounded by fields and woods. The big homely kitchen is everybody's stereotype of a country house kitchen. The proprietors are very friendly people and the rooms are very comfy. Of course, being an English B&B and in the country, you can imagine what the breakfasts are like - a real treat! Make sure you have fresh milk!
One night in October (off season) cost me 20 pounds.

Experience a farmstay with warm, generous hosts.

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Delicious food great Location: Best view in Aldeburgh

Church Farm: Caravan Park

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Ocean House: Best B&B

Butterfly House.: Stay with a farming family in Suffolk.

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