Mr & Mrs Smith

Tuddenham Mill

Suffolk, United Kingdom

This 17th-century Suffolk abode is a converted water mill in 12 acres of land, enhanced with a sleek, minimalist restaurant and super-stylish boudoirs with high-spec Starck-fitted ensuites. Tuddenham Mill is somewhere to while away a lazy sunny afternoon playing boules by a swan-studded pond, or cosied up on hand-picked statement furniture in a spacious lounge bar under original exposed beams.

Need to know

• Rooms 15.
• Rates Double rooms from $169.10 (£108), excluding tax at 20 per cent.
  Prices have been converted from the hotel's local currency (£108), via XE.com, using today's exchange rate.
• More details Rates include breakfast.
• Facilities 12 acres of gardens, boules pitch, DVD/CD library, laundry. In rooms, six‑foot Presotto beds, minibar with complimentary water and juice, free WiFi, Loewe LCD TVs, Bose sound system and iPod dock, Elemis toiletries.
• Check-out Midday; check‑in 2pm, but the Mill is always flexible when possible.
• Children Extra beds or cots can be provided in rooms, £30 a night. There’s a children’s menu, and the chef is happy to adapt the main menu (half portions, no sauce…). Highchairs, paper, pencils and crayons are always to hand. More...
• Hotel closed Please note: on 30 September, due to a wedding open day at the hotel, all breakfast will be served in-room, check-out time will be 11am, and only light bites on the terrace will be available for Sunday lunch.
• Also Dogs welcome in some bedrooms and public areas (except Mill Room East, Mill Room and Mill Room West and the restaurant) for a charge of £15 a night – give advance notice. There’s a two‑night minimum stay on Saturday nights; three nights bank holidays.

Food and drink at Tuddenham Mill

• Hotel restaurant Paul Foster’s tantalising Modern European fare has already earned appreciative nods in culinary‑critic quarters. Favourite dishes include cumin lamb rump and shoulder with cucumber and yoghurt, and the sea buckthorn curd with chicory, blueberries and muscovado caught our eye on the dessert menu: not your average Suffolk grub.
• Dress code Relaxed: unstructured shift dresses and polo shirts (suitable for disguising a greedily stuffed belly) should strike the right sartorial note.
• Top table Alfresco, by the pond; upstairs in the restaurant at a window seat with upstream views; or at the raised and curtained off 'Jockey's table'. Mind your head though! There are two private dining rooms, too; we like the Terrace Room (it has a balcony).
• Last orders 10pm in the restaurant; the bar will mix the Millpond cocktails as long as you stay up… Lunch, 12–2.30pm (4pm on Sundays); then light bites until 6.30pm when the dinner sitting starts.
• Room service 24 hours: choose from the restaurant menu when the kitchen is open, otherwise it’s light snacks and drinks.
• Hotel bar Spectacularly adorned by the beautifully up‑lit original mill wheel, the Mill’s intimate, relaxed bar will mix the Millpond cocktails as long as you stay up…

Also worth knowing

• Weddings This property is suitable for weddings. More...

Tuddenham Mill High Street Tuddenham, Suffolk, IP28 6SQ