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Snow Cottage - sleeps 2
Snow Cottage is a single storey cottage and sleeps a couple it was once part of the farm dairy here at The old grove Farm and the 'Soldier' brickwork dates back to the 1700's. The main room has an old wood floor and an impressively high vaulted wooden ceiling. Snow Cottage is very cosy even without an open fire. Now converted into a cosy cottage it has an interesting mix of period and modern 'classic' antique furniture, which with its old highly polished wooden floor, creates a spacious 'loft feeling'. |
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Rose Cottage - sleeps 2
Rose Cottage was once part of the early 1700's dairy here at The Old Grove Farm. Eventually converted into a cosy cottage it retains lots of character from its past, with it's high vaulted wooden ceilings, lime-washed walls, exposed beams and lovely open log fire. |
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The Bakery - sleeps 2
Our Honeymooners Favourite. Since 1720 The Bakery provided bread for the old Grove Farm, now it is converted into an extremely cosy self-contained cottage. It has a very cosy open fire which you can sink back into the comfy sofa and watch as the ducks in the Orchard peck at the French doors for bread. |
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Dons Barn - sleeps 2
Dons Barn definitely has the Wow Factor. It was once the early 1700's Winnowing Barn of The Grove Farm. Now converted into a cosy cottage it has an impressive view over the Orchard through the massive Oak Barn door windows and you can watch the sunsetting from your bed on the galleried first floor. |
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Gun Cottage - sleeps 3
Gun Cottage is the old 1720's farm worker's cottage situated at the end of the The Old Grove Farm. It retains all of its original simple homeliness and charm and has a lovely open log fire. |
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Orchard Cottage - sleeps 5
Orchard Cottage was created out of the old hay and pigeon lofts that made up part of the long Eastern wall of the old enclosed farm quadrangles first built in the 1720's. It is our biggest cottage and sleeps 5 people very comfortably and a sixth in an emergency. |
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The Old Forge - sleeps 2
This gorgeous tiny place is absolutely ideal for a short break as it has really everything you need for a really comfortable and stylish stay including a fabulous vaulted and beamed bedroom and elegant designer shower but it is (along with Snow Cottage, without a fireplace/woodburner) the least expensive of our lovely cottages. The Old Forge is Grade II listed and in the centre of the picturesque village of Boxford overlooking the 15th Century church of St. Mary's. |
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The Old Monkey - sleeps 2
A little bolt hole to enjoy Suffolk from: I think this lovely place will really appeal to a lot of my guests, especially those on short breaks who always ask how far the nearest pub, restaurant, shop, walk, cycle route is - because this place really ticks all those boxes. |
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The Old Reading Room - sleeps 2
This lovely little cottage was once the Reading Room for Kersey, Suffolks very very prettiest hamlet. This cottage has lovely open log fires in both the main room and the bedroom - just how romantic do you want a place to be? |
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Charlie's Cottage - sleeps 2
This lovely little cottage is just up the hill from Pin Mill Harbour on the River Orwell we can offer a really cosy victorian cottage with an open fire in the sitting room plus some great yachting experiences for guests through The Classic Sailing Club. |
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Gabriel's Place - sleeps 3
Situated in Walsham le Willows a small picturesque rural village near Bury St Edmunds, this cottage has the architect owners stamp of 'Design' and comfort on it. There is a good sized landing room where there are 2 single beds for either a 3rd person or up to 2 children |
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Bromans Barn - sleeps 2
This is a great place for a couple who want to explore Mersea Islands wonderful Nature reserves - you are on a farm that stretches down to the salt marsh nature reserves where seals bask. There are wonderful walks which will take you along the beaches straight from this very elegantly converted barn next to the pretty pond. |
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Mill Cottage - sleeps 2
Mill Cottage is a lovely airy conversion and overlooks the Mill Pond where you can go 'Wild Swimming'. This is a special place for those who want to be right away from traffic and enjoy the beauty of being in your own valley with 4 nature reserves all backing onto it. The Cottage is in a lovely little 'Back to the Good Life' setting in a remote small-holding in its own valley - all very, very eco. And it has its own 11 acre fenced in meadow where your doggies can hurtle around in total safety. There are Badger watching hides, an Owl Tower and a Story telling thatched hut - all very magical. |
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The Coach House - sleeps 2
This 1650's cottage is very special luxurious retreat for a couple, as you see it is 5 Star luxury but with a very special feature of having its own lovely 17th Century Walled Garden to close out the world and its own wildflower meadow with nut and fruit trees and an ancient thatched Summer House where you can completely cocoon yourself in a wildlife sanctuary and gaze at the stars at night and keeping warm with cheerful pot bellied BBQ. Special indeed ! |
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Penny Cottage - sleeps 2
Penny Cottage is a wonderful historic weaver's cottage, crowded with original features. This beautiful house was built in the 16th century and is located in the tiny picturesque village of Lavenham. Lavenham was almost forgotten from the 1600's till recently and was featured in the Dimbleby's TV show as one of England's best preserved Medieval "Wool" Villages and it is the Jewel in the crown of Suffolk's many pretty villages. |
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Mint Cottage - sleeps 2
Mint Cottage is a wonderful historic weaver's cottage, crowded with original features. This beautiful house was built in the 16th century and is located in the tiny picturesque village of Lavenham. Lavenham was almost forgotten from the 1600's till recently and was featured in the Dimbleby's TV show as one of England's best preserved Medieval 'Wool' Villages and it is the Jewel in the crown of Suffolk's many pretty villages. |
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Cobblers Cottage - sleeps 2
Cobblers Cottage - truly a unique place to spend time and relax. Lovingly and meticulously restored using traditional materials and original techniques Cobblers Cottage transports you back to medieval England with out depriving you of modern comfort. |
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The Pump House - sleeps 4
The Pump House is just outside the lovely village of Stoke-by-Nayland down a tiny single track lane, in the steep Box River valley with the Pilgrims Way running through its own water meadow the setting could hardly be prettier. |
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Cissy's Cottage - sleeps 4
Cissy's Cottage is situated on the main road linking the A12 & pretty coastal town of Aldeburgh, it is close to Snape and The Snape Maltings where the Benjamin Britten Music and Arts Centre is based. |
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Holmwood - sleeps 4
Holmwood is an absolutely gorgeous 16th Century Thatched Cottage in a group of 5 cottages and a pub next to the Sudbury to Ipswich Main Road, just 4 1/2 miles from us at The Grove. |
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Cafors - sleeps 4
This is a 16th Century historic village house in Chelsworth - a very pretty riverside village close to Lavenham - the cottage easily accommodates 2 couples and has many beautiful original features with 2 double bedrooms and a small enclosed garden. |
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Pound Cottage - sleeps 4
This beautiful cottage is in the tiny picturesque village of Lavenham which was featured in Jonathan Dimblebys program as one of Englands best preserved Medieval Villages and is a really wonderful place to visit. |
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Cobbs Cottage - sleeps 5
Cobbs Cottage is just outside Stoke-by-Nayland down a tiny single track lane. At the bottom of the hill is a green lane with a wooden footbridge across the ford from where you can walk up to the picturesque hamlet of Polstead. |
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Scrumpy's Barn - sleeps 5
Scrumpy's is ideal as a temporary home and we accept booking from a week to 6 months. Scrumpy's is a 3 bed-roomed barn conversion in the grounds of a lovely ex vicarage, it is also a great economic option for larger families to get away for a week or 2. The garden overlooks the pretty church (Bells only once per week) and both are perched on the top of the hill over looking the picturesque Brett River Valley. Close to Bildeston and Hadleigh and within easy reach of Ipswich, Sudbury, Bury St Edmunds and Colchester. |
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Tara - sleeps 10
"Tara" is our lovely 300 year old log house that we have been carefully renovating in the original style for the past three years. We will be accepting guests in 2009, the price is £850 pw and Tara sleeps 10 in 6 bedrooms. The house is made entirely of wood and has been renovated completely in the traditional way even down to the individually 'hand made' wooden roof shingles. 'Tara' is situated in the middle of the famous Beskedy Mountain Nature Reserve in the Czech Republic close to the massive Sance reservoir lake and within view of the Slovak and Polish borders in the NE corner of the Czech Republic. Brno Airport (Ryan Air) is about 2.2 hrs away and Ostrava Airport (Czech Airlines) about 45 minutes. |
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The Old Grove Farm - sleeps 0
This is where it all started and where I live, I took the derelict 1700's farm buildings over in 1997 with Holiday Cottages in mind. Snow Cottage, Rose Cottage, The Bakery, Dons Barn, Gun Cottage and Orchard Cottage all together make up this long rambling building. |
The Grove Cottages holiday cottages have many unique original features like 18th Century Bake ovens and working kitchen ranges, traditional Suffolk Brick floors, wattle and daub walls, 16th Century thatched roofs, massive Inglenook fireplaces, log fires, millstones and exposed beams galore and they are all lovingly restored and period furnished so that they are a joy just to be in.
The Grove Cottages holiday homes are situated in South Suffolk / East Anglia which is less than 2 hours for London or an hour from Cambridge and where the famous English Landscape painter John Constable was born and created such masterpieces as 'The Haywain'.
The Grove Cottages are available all year for weekend and midweek short breaks as well as weekly holidays and the accommodation sleeps from 2 to 6.
We are 4 star rated and provide bikes for our guests to explore the beautiful English countryside.
Please look through our site and you will find out why our guests love it so much here.
Thank you and Happy Hols !
Mark
