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B&B in Great Bardfield, Essex

I31850C730
Europe > England > Essex > Great Bardfield
I31850C730
Luxury Bed and Breakfast in a country house

Bucks House is a beautiful Grade II Listed building. It was built between 1510 and 1560 with lathe and plaster and a heavy timber frame. It is set on the village green in the centre of Great Bardfield, a medieval conservation village that has changed little in the past five hundred years.

8 guests

From £45

Bucks House is furnished with antiques, oriental and Turkish rugs and many works of art. We enjoy welcoming guests from all over the world and try to ensure that all our guests enjoy their stay and will want to return.


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 Accommodation
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All our centrally heated bedrooms are furnished with style and comfort in mind. Each is quite different, but all have the same attention to detail. Our beds, whether antique or modern, have high quality comfortable mattresses, down duvets and pillows and electric blankets in winter. If you have allergies, we can provide synthetic bedding. Each room has an electric heater, spare blankets and a fan.

Location: Village
Holiday Type: Walking, Cycling, Activity, Sightseeing, Romantic
Catering: Bed and Breakfast
Guests: 8

Facilities

You will find a bathrobe, hairdryer and heated rollers in your room. In addition, we provide shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, shaving foam, deodorant, cotton pads, cotton buds and large bath sheets in the bathroom. Of course there are remote control televisions, clock radios, armchairs and tea/coffee trays with hot chocolate, decaff coffee and biscuits in every room.

Guests are welcome to use our WiFi internet connection, or our desktop computer to check emails free of charge.

We believe in using only the best ingredients and cook each breakfast individually. We use free range eggs, Suffolk dry cure bacon, home grown tomatoes whenever possible and sausages from the East London Sausage Company. We cater for vegetarians as well as meat eaters. We grill, rather than fry if possible. Your breakfast would look something like this:

Selection of Cereals

Fruit Yogurts

Poached Fruits/Fruit Compote

THEN

Full English Breakfast:

Egg, Bacon, Mushrooms, Tomatoes, Sausage

Brown and White Toast

Home Made Preserves

Essex Honey

Cafeteire of Ground Coffee

Selection of Teas/Herbal/Fruit Teas

OR

Continental Breakfast for early starts

Facilities: - TV
- Internet Access
- Central Heating
- Garden
- Parking
- Balcony/Terrace

Availability

Bucks House,
Vine Street,
Great Bardfield,
Essex CM7 4SR

Telephone - 01371 810519

Change over day: Any

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Tariff


SUNDAY TO THURSDAY

4 Poster En Suite Double £75.0 0 per room per night

Single Occupancy £55.00 (when available)

Standard En Suite Double £65.00 per room per night

Single Occupancy £45.00 per room per night

Twin or Double Non-

En Suite £55.00 per room per night

Single Occupancy £40.00 per room per night

FRIDAY AND SATURDAY

There is a supplement of £10 per room per night on the above rates for double occupancy and £15 per room per night for single occupancy.

PLEASE NOTE: We do not take credit or debit cards. However, we accept personal and business cheques with a guarantee card, sterling travellers cheques, euros and sterling cash. A deposit of 50% is required to reserve a room.

WE DO NOT TAKE CHILDREN OVER ONE YEAR AND UNDER TEN YEARS. We can provide a travel cot and high chair. We have one folding bed which will make either our four poster room or large double non en suite into a room for one couple and one child. We charge £10 per child. This is the largest family room we can provide, but two older children can share either a twin or double room at our normal rate.

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B&B per Night/ price from £451 Jan 20111 Jul 2012£45€56$72


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 About the region
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Continent: Europe
Country: England
Region: Essex
Great Bardfield
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About the area

Location: Great Bardfield
Facilities: The house is the much-loved family home of Nessie and Peter Poston, who now offer luxury bed and breakfast in the country house tradition. Bucks House is furnished with antiques, oriental and Turkish rugs and many works of art. We enjoy welcoming guests from all over the world to Bucks House. We try to ensure that all our guests enjoy their stay at Bucks House, and want to return.

Our lovely Georgian sitting room, walled garden and patio are available for guests to use
About the Area: Further afield, there are many places to visit. We are 20 minutes from Stansted Airport, 40 minutes from Cambridge and 20 minutes from Bishops Stortford, Great Dunmow, Braintree and Saffron Walden. Thaxted is three miles and Finchingfield 2 miles. The Great Leighs race course is a ten minute drive. Wedding venues in this area include Spains Hall in Finchingfield, Leez Priory, Audley End House, The High Barn, and the Fennes Estate. The Unex Towerlands Equestrian Centre is 15 minutes drive on the outskirts of Braintree.

East Anglia is a beautiful rural area, unspoiled by mass tourism. Beautiful villages and small market towns abound. Within 40 minutes drive of Great Bardfield, you will find yourself in the stunning wool towns of Lavenham and Long Melford, both famous for their wonderful lathe and plaster timber framed buildings and antique shops. The same distance will take you to Dedham Vale, where John Constable painted so many of his famous scenes.

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 Travel
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From the M11. Leave at Junction 8 and follow the A120 towards Stansted and Colchester. Take the first exit signposted to Great Dunmow and follow the signs to the town centre. Take the second exit at the roundabout with Tesco on the left and at the next roundabout turn left towards Great Dunmow town centre. You will come to a mini roundabout with a sign to Saffron Walden and Thaxted on the left. Take this road and at the bottom of the hill, branch left at the mini roundabout. Next right is signposted to Great Bardfield and Stebbing (B1057). Follow this road for approximately 6 miles and you will come into Great Bardfield. We are at the end of the High Street on the right, opposite The Vine pub and next to the village green.


Entertainment

There are two good pubs in the village, both minutes from Bucks House. They serve excellent food. There are many good restaurants in the area and we can make reservations and book local taxis.


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