Listed Country cottages and self-catering holiday cottage accommodation in Suffolk

If you have an interest in English history, find medieval buildings and traditions fascinating, then do consider visiting Suffolk. It's county where the new has evolved alongside the old. Well-preserved cottages and buildings from the 12th century onwards are lived in and still contribute to the life of villages and towns. Certain villages contain large numbers of these listed buildings so that a walk down the high street is very much a walk into East Anglia's past.

The churches, the centre of life in latter years, are particularly well-preserved and many in active use today. The walls of many of these churches are covered with stones or flints - a style popular in East Anglia.

A large number of pubs are former coaching inns. It is possible to take a drink in places frequented by the notorious highway man Dick Turpin and others with more salubrious connections. These pubs are full of nooks and crannies, timbered and beamed, with warming fires in the inglenook.

There are many self-catering cottages in Suffolk that are also listed buildings with a story to tell. Take a look at a couple of such examples below.


Church in Stratford St. Mary	Former Corn Exchange in Sudbury, now a library	Medieval Lavenham

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Pound Cottage next in Lavenham, near Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk

Pound cottage is in the tiny picturesque village of Lavenham which was featured in Jonathan Dimblebys program as one of England's best preserved Medieval Villages and is the jewel in the crown of Suffolk's Medieval villages.

The cottage which dates back to the 16th Century, as can be seen by the wealth of ancient timbers, has 2 bedrooms, one double and one twin, the bathroom is modern and spacious and has a shower and a bath, there is central heating throughout and a cosy wood burning stove to enjoy in the sitting room, the kitchen is fully equipped and has a fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, gas hob, electric oven and microwave.

There is a pretty patio garden which catches the sun all day and has BBQ facilities.

Lavenham is a tiny village and it is easy to walk through the countryside directly from Pound Cottage and there are some excellent walks like the one along the disused railway line to Long Melford where the TV series Lovejoy was based and is predictable an antique Hunters dream now. Suffolk is only a short distance from London but the whole are has a really rural feel to it as if it were hundreds of miles away from any City and indeed in Dickens's day school boys who lived in Scotland or Suffolk were allowed to go home a day early as they were both considered so inaccessible.

To find out more Pound Cottage or other very pretty cottages in Lavenham and Suffolk, call Mark on 01787 211 115

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