An English country retreat

A stay in the boutique Rectory Manor hotel offers a taste of the good life, says Clare White

Surrounded by beautiful Suffolk countryside, the old manor house of Great Waldingfield is situated halfway between the lovely medieval English village of Lavenham, and the smart market town of Sudbury – the birthplace of British landscape and portrait painter Thomas Gainsborough. It’s the perfect place to experience English countryside living – albeit in an exceedingly grand setting. After swishing up a gravel drive to the front door you are welcomed into the house via a beautiful hallway. There is a roaring log fire and a friendly dog – a fox red Labrador – and the beaming face of Frank Lawrenson, whose family home it is, to greet you. Frank inherited Rectory Manor from his parents, and 12 years ago decided to run it as a B&B. Since then, it has become one…

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