HAUGHLEY HOUSE

Stowmarket, Suffolk, IP14 3NS
Telephone: 01449 673398
Fax: 01449 673398
English Tourism Council 5 Star and Silver Award

THE HISTORY OF HAUGHLEY HOUSE
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Haughley House is a late medieval manor house with later additions, built just outside the outer bailey of the castle (only the foundations and the large moat remain) in the conservation area of the village of Haughley, which is listed by English Heritage as a site of National importance. The house has a priest hole in one of the chimneys and two passages (now sealed off) one of which leads to the church and it is the true centre of the Manor (Manorial Courts are still held) containing the original manorial records dating back to 1321 in the reign of Edward the Second. We also hold the survey book for Mary Tudor when the Manor passed into her ownership in 1554. Among the other Lords were Ralph de Broc who murdered St. Thomas a’Beckett in Canterbury Cathedral and Thomas Tyrell who murdered the Princes in the Tower. Jeffrey Bowden is the present Lord (who hasn't killed anyone yet!)

ROOMS AT HAUGHLEY HOUSE
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The three guest bedrooms are in the oldest part of the house and comprise two double and one twin all en-suite, with TV and tea making facilities if desired. We have a stair lift if required. We are a non smoking household. Pre-dinner drinks can be taken in either the oak panelled drawing room or the attractive sitting room. Dinner is served in the elegant dining room. Afternoon tea can be taken in the garden or on cooler days in the Victorian greenhouse in the kitchen garden where you can view the vegetables that you will eat at dinner!

The garden is some three acres, during the shooting season pheasants use it as a refuge and can often be seen looking through the French windows! There is an old croquet lawn which guests are free to use. For guests that do not drive we can collect you from the railway station, and during your stay give you a tour of the places of interest in the area. There are many and varied walks available from the house.

FOOD
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The food is a highlight of staying at Haughley; Caroline and Jeffrey are accomplished cooks who believe that using the finest ingredients is the key to culinary excellence. Organic vegetables grown in their walled kitchen garden, fruit from the orchard, eggs from their hens. They are able to offer beef from their own traditionally reared cattle and game is from their own land; other meats are sourced locally from reliable producers.

LOCAL ATTRACTIONS
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Suffolk is an unspoilt county which was the inspiration of artists Thomas Gainsborough and John Constable. It is famed for its villages and towns of timber framed buildings and magnificent churches, such as Lavenham, Long Melford and Bury St Edmunds. There is the heritage coast with its attractive towns such as Southwold. The world famous horse racing town of Newmarket home of the National Stud. Not forgetting the well known Aldeburgh Festival. All within easy reach of Haughley which is in the centre of Suffolk.

DIRECTIONS TO HAUGHLEY HOUSE
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From the A14 leave at Junction 48, at the first junction fork right the huse will be found 100 yards on the right.

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