Suffolk, United Kingdom

Restaries

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Style

Rare breed

Setting

A hop from Halesworth

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On the aptly named Paradise Farm — in northern Suffolk — Restaries is bringing a cosseting, modern comfort to country living. Piglets, sheep, alpacas and goats are your roaming neighbours, and each standalone cottage has been lovingly restored from their original form to feature sun-saluting tones, one-off furnishings and locally made artwork. Log burners bring a cheek-rosing warmth to chilly English evenings, while blooming gardens and a close-to-the-coast setting make summer sojourns equally enticing. Perhaps this really is paradise.

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Two standalone cottages.

Check–Out

10am, and check-in is at 4pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Bespoke breakfast baskets can be dropped off to your cottage for a daily charge of £25 each.

Also

Stoned pathways and uneven entryways make Restaries challenging for wheelchair users. There’s a duo of steps leading to the Cider House, but otherwise the cottage is set across one easy-to-navigate level.

At the hotel

Farm animals, 10-acre grounds and gardens, events barn, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In cottages: TV, barbecue and pizza oven on request, Grind coffee machine, tea-making kit and Verden bath products.

Our favourite rooms

Couples will be ensconced with the Gate House, an amatory pick for two with a spacious freestanding bath tub, cushy mezzanine-level bed, fire-heated patio and wood-fired hot tub. If you’re coming with the clan, the Cider Store has enough cosseting bedrooms to comfortably welcome six.

Poolside

Secluded under an all-glass arch within the lavender-laced gardens, the indoor heated pool is primed for relaxing morning laps and pre-dinner dips.

Packing tips

Green fingers to get involved in the gardens.

Also

Your neighbouring flocks include Kunekune pigs by the names of Bou, Cleo and Mars; Pygmy goats (Daisy, Bluey and Rocco) and Lennie, Larry and Louis — a strikingly shaggy trio of Valais Blacknose sheep.

Pet‐friendly

Pups are welcome for a flat fee of £30 each, just be sure to keep them on the lead around other farm animals. See more pet-friendly hotels in Suffolk.

Children

Welcome; there's a kids' play area, as well as toys and games. Cots and high chairs can also be added to cottages and babysitting is available for £20 an hour.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Sink into fireside sofas during the colder months, and come summer make suppers alfresco with your private terrace’s barbecue or request a pizza oven.

Dress Code

You’ll be in the comfort of your own home, so however you are happiest is just fine here.

Hotel restaurant

There’s no restaurant on-site, but each cottage comes with a fully equipped kitchen, private dinners can be set-up around the grounds, chefs can be called in for events and there are plenty of esteemed eateries a short drive away. Breakfast hampers can also be delivered to your door each morning; just let Gem know what you’d like and she’ll fill it with local favourites.

Location

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Address
Restaries
Paradise Farm Cox Common Westhall Halesworth
Suffolk
IP19 8RH
United Kingdom

Restaries’ collection of outhouses sit around Paradise Farm in northern Suffolk, a short drive from the market town of Halesworth.

Planes

Your closest international airport is in Norwich, around 40 minutes from Restaries by car; if you’re landing at London Stansted it’s a further two-hour drive, and London Luton is closer to three hours.

Trains

Brampton and Halesworth are both between five and 10 minutes away by car. They sit on the East Suffolk Line between Lowestoft and Ipswich, where you can catch connections around the UK, including into London’s Liverpool Street. Private transfers can be arranged from both for around £25 each way.

Automobiles

A car is a handy companion around these arcadian ends; there’s free private parking at the hotel.

Other

There’s an on-site helipad for chopper arrivals.

Worth getting out of bed for

The trad towns of Halesworth, Bungay, Beccles and Southwold are all a short drive away and your intro to quaint local life, where antique shops, independent boutiques and family-owned eateries line a labyrinth of lanes. 

Be at one with your natural surroundings, instead, and go paddleboarding and kayaking along your neighbouring rivers, or horse riding through the forests and along scenic coastal paths. There are boat tours, too; and if you’d rather roll your sleeves up, flower arranging workshops are held in Southwold, and Hummingbird hosts sweet bakery classes. Wine tastings at Flint Vineyards curtail oenophiles’ cravings, and over at the open-air Thorington Theatre, weaving woodlands are the idyllic backdrop for seasonal plays, comedy nights and live concerts.

Local restaurants

The Wildebeest wins awards for its cut-from-the-crop cuisine, concocted by head chef Fabio Miani, served in an enchanting rustic setting and paired with sommelier-selected wines. Seasonal menus are equally coveted at the Greyhound Inn, where plates are produced with farm-fresh ingredients from surrounding suppliers. The Kings Head puts an elevated spin on pub grub and every Sunday  proves popular for its trad, all-trimmings roasts. 

Local cafés

Black Dog Deli is your Fido-friendly brunch spot, and follow the wafting aroma of freshly baked pastries and cakes to the Front Room.

Local bars

You do just that at You Drink, where on-tap tipples are Suffolk-made and best sipped in compelling company. The Green Dragon has been brewing beers in Bungay since 1991 and pouring its pints to loyal locals for just as long.

Reviews

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Anonymous review

By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this collection of cottages near Halesworth and unpacked their wellies and wax jackets, a full account of their foray to the farm will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Restaries in Suffolk…

It’s a tale as old as time: the constant commotion of the capital pushes once-loyal Londoners to seek a quieter, slower life out in the countryside. The only difference with this one: husband-and-wife duo Gem and Thom are asking you to come along. And for Restaries, we’ll gladly abide. 

It was 2024 when the once-corporate-city-couple unearthed a collection of 16th-century cottages on Paradise Farm, in the north of Suffolk. Today, bowered paths are your welcoming procession, braiding between alfresco enclosures that house miniature goats, shaggy black-nosed sheep, a friendly flock of patchy piglets and egg-rearing hens. Scattered along the lanes is also where you’ll find your expertly renovated abode, with nature-nodding palettes, fully equipped kitchens, cosy corners and private terraces for days when the Suffolk sunshine peers through. There’s also a heated swimming pool and acres of organic gardens, where Gem picks produce for your bespoke breakfast baskets. After this, we’re sold on a life in the serene Suffolk sticks, too.

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