On-site Facilities

While you are here enjoy using our heated outdoor swimming pool in a sunny corner of the farmhouse garden or play tennis on the hard court (please bring suitable shoes) by arrangement with our family.

While away the evenings with table tennis or snooker in the games room and cook on the barbecue just outside.

An added attraction which comes into its own on a wet day is the studio / craft room where you will find painting, plaster modelling materials and other craft activities. China painting and jewellery making is also on offer for both adults and children.

We have a lock up shed if you bring your bike and all the local cycle route maps which follow quiet lanes and by roads.

The grassy courtyard outside the cottages has a sandpit and the whole area from here to the games room has gates so can be safely enclosed for small children.There is an excellent children's Play Area 5 minutes' walk away in the village with climbing frame, swings etc and a 5 a side football pitch.

The laundry room has an automatic washing machine, tumble drier and ironing facilities. There is garden furniture and covered parking and a pay as you go mobile phone can be borrowed if you need one.

Milk and papers can be ordered in advance and for shopping there are 2 supermarkets on the outskirts of Ipswich or a variety of smaller shops in the picturesque market town of Hadleigh. Both 4 miles away.

The Farm

Our arable farm is run as a family partnership and all the machinery and grain storage is based at the other farm but you will see wheat, barley, sugar beet and oilseed rape growing in the surrounding fields.

The busiest time on the farm starts in July when harvest begins and you will see combine harvesters hard at work followed by autumn cultivations and ploughing.

Then the cycle begins again with winter wheat being drilled (sown) in September.

We have a colour coded map of the crops showing the waymarked footpaths you can follow. If you go down Lower Barn road you can admire the dog roses in the hedges, see many forms of wildlife and maybe disturb deer before crossing the stream at the bottom of the valley and wandering through the water meadows