Glamorous holiday lets on this country estate make for a glorious country break. Just take a long look at yourself before picking the cute cottage with no electricity
To call these “cottages” is a bit like calling the Queen someone’s nan. They are to cottages what champagne is to Tizer. Even Hex Cottage, the most modest of the holiday lets in the grounds of east Suffolk’s Wilderness Reserve, has the hazy look of something from a fairytale, drawn by a daydreaming child.
The name is misleading: this is not wilderness as we know it. These 4,500 acres, with their long silver lake and parkland and woods, have been carefully tended to create a grassy sort of heaven. I swear I saw a rabbit sunbathing. As well as the glamorous manor house (a rambling 12-bedroom Grade II-listed affair with hand-painted chinoiserie wallpaper, sleeps 24), there are five “cottages”, ranging from the huge Barn to the tiny Hex, with the two-bedroom Gate Lodges in between.
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