- Top 40 Cool Cottages for Spring 2022 (The Times)
Markwells House is a beautiful historic country house estate dating from approximately 1600, later ‘Georgianised’ and authentically conserved. It enjoys a fabulous position overlooking the mile-wide Stour estuary between Suffolk and Essex. It can comfortably sleep up to 10 - perfect for a family get-together or special occasion. The house is in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within easy reach of many beautiful Suffolk and North Essex towns and villages, stately homes, beaches and countryside. Flatford Mill and the Dedham Vale (Constable Country) are just a few miles away. Alton Water Park with sailing, windsurfing and fishing as well as walking and cycle routes, is less than a mile away. There are many good restaurants nearby, and farmers’ markets for delicious local produce. The house is surrounded by beautiful gardens, from which there is direct access to the sea wall along the estuary, for walks to Holbrook Bay and beyond, with great birdwatching. There is a duck pond by the house and chickens (collect the eggs!) and a large summerhouse with a veranda in the extensive garden, as well as a paddock of alpacas!
Features
Family Friendly
- Young children welcome
- High chair
- Cot
- Stairgate
General
- Washing machine
Heating
- Open fire / woodburner
Location
- Farm or rural location
- Secluded location
Media & Technology
- Television
- Wifi broadband internet
Bed Layout
- Double bed
- Double bed
- Double bed
- Twin single bedroom
- Twin single bedroom
In Detail
Underfloor & Central Heating Throughout. Wi-Fi. Stair Gates for Both Sets of Stairs.
Ground Floor:
- Entrance hall
- Dining room – Suffolk brick floor, large farmhouse table, woodburner
- Kitchen – new appliances: double oven, microwave, dishwasher, fridge freezer, Nespresso coffee machine
- Sitting Room - with woodburner, TV, DVD player, Sky
- Large conservatory with grape vine, dining table and chairs
- Separate large second sitting room/study with open fire, TV with DVD, Sky
- Hall area, large extra fridge and downstairs loo
- Utility room - washing machine & drier, ironing board
- Small study
- Master bedroom – double half-tester bed, en-suite bathroom with bath and shower
- Pretty twin bedroom with iron beds and patchwork quilts, ensuite shower room and loo
- Twin bedroom with wooden ‘sleigh’ beds
- Family bathroom with roll top bath
- Double bedroom, walk-in wardrobe
- Double bedroom - 4’ wide antique painted bed
- Shower room
- Large garden with wild flower meadow, herb garden, topiary
- Paved area by house with benches, table and chairs
- Small area by house enclosed for dogs
- Large summerhouse with veranda
- Plenty of parking
- Chickens, ducks, alpacas (these are all enclosed in dog safe runs/paddocks)
- Two ponds
- Mile-wide river at bottom of garden.
Good to know
- Check in at : 17:00
- Check out by: 10:00
- Up to 10
- 7 nights from £2772 (based on 2 staying)
- Pets - Welcome (maximum: 3 dogs)
- Location
- On the River Stour in Suffolk
- Nearby
- You will be in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within easy reach of many beautiful Suffolk... Read more
- Infants - Welcome + Cot & high chair available
- Children - Welcome
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Pond close to house, but it is enclosed by a picket fence. Another pond at the top of the garden, not enclosed but some distance from house.
• Mile wide river estuary at bottom of garden. Not enclosed!
• Old house, some uneven floors. Second staircase very steep.
Bed Layout
- Double bed
- Double bed
- Double bed
- Twin single bedroom
- Twin single bedroom
You will be in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and within easy reach of many beautiful Suffolk and North Essex towns and villages, stately homes, beaches and countryside. Flatford Mill and the Dedham Vale (Constable Country) are just a few miles away. Alton Water Park with sailing, windsurfing and fishing as well as walking and cycle routes, is less than a mile away. There are many good restaurants nearby, and farmer’s markets for delicious local produce, including Jimmy's Farm (as seen on TV) within a couple of miles. Village shops about a mile and a half away.
Reviews
Paul P,
2026
I would just like to thank Underthethatch and Griff Rhys Jones for such a gorgeous property. This house and gardens is stunning and I will be forever grateful to you all for allowing us to stay there with my family. We were all so thrilled and thankful, it really was a worthwhile competition win from you and you have given us such beautiful memories we will never forget. Every room in the house is stunning, the garden is stunning, in fact everything!! This isn’t just 10 out of 10….it is so much more. The location is superb. So beautiful and peaceful listening to the birdsong each morning warms my heart. And birds I have never heard before! I used to have family live in Suffolk too a long time ago so it was lovely to visit the churchyard near Beccles to visit them. A special and moving moment for me.
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