You will have sole use of this well-kitted out and luxury bunkhouse where you can cook and feast together in the kitchen and relax in the cosy sitting room with family games.

The Old Brooder has space for up to 22 of you to all eat and relax together, five bedrooms including the restored Shepherd’s hut. You can walk off the excesses of Christmas on our farm trails or borrow our bikes to cycle down country lanes to local pubs. Easily accessible from London, the North and West. Minimum 3-night stay.

The Old Brooder bunkhouse is available for a min Christmas stay of 3 nights. Cosy, centrally heated. Cook and feast together at the long tables in the kitchen – and then relax in the comfortable upstairs sitting room playing family board games or charades. For the energetic, you can walk of the excesses of Christmas around the farm trails or borrow our 20 bikes to visit the local pubs.

Enjoy and unwrap Christmas in a seriously comfortable bunkhouse that sleeps up to 20 guests. Cook, feast and relax together and enjoy the outdoors on our peaceful farm.

The Old Brooder bunkhouse is situated down a long private farm drive in rural Suffolk three miles from historic Lavenham.  Accessible by train, within an hour or so from London, and 16 miles of Colchester, Bury St Edmunds and Ipswich.  The bunkhouse us available from 20-29th December with a charge of £1900 for minimum 3 nights. Cook your Christmas feast and eat together at long tables, relax and enjoy time together in the cosy sitting room that can seat you all together. Stylish bunks and conventional beds for 20.

3-night min @ £1,900.

Make the Old Brooder Bunkhouse your base

The Old Brooder Bunkhouse has private rooms for teachers and dormitories for students – and alternative overflow accommodation if you need it.  Whether you’ve arrived on a ferry from Harwich, or are a sports team on tour, a visiting choir to Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, or are doing a Field Study tour, check out the bunkhouse accommodation and what we can offer.  We can provide some or all meals, a meadow to let off steam and play football or rounders in, garden games such as table tennis and table football – and if you haven’t planned your itinerary, why not choose Suffolk as your new destination?  On our own farm students can study history, ecology, geography, the environment, PE, citizenship and art and beyond … Suffolk’s got coastline to study, long distance walks, water sports and river kayaking nearby, castles, historic Wool Town villages, Kentwell Hall historic re-enactment – and so much to inspire the photography, art and literature groups!