Satis House Hotel

Our first visit to East Anglia, offers a gem of a venue at Satis House.
Owned by Chiu and Chris Blackmore. Chiu is Malaysian, as is the hotel restaurant, sowith the perfume of spicy cooking in the air, there is be no better venue to hold our Introducing India course. But if you want to try Chiu’s Malaysian cooking, you’ll need to book before or after our course. And why not? It is truly superb.

As for Satis House, the Blackmores have been there since 1987, and in that time have transformed the venue with their own personality. As you come up the long drive, you feel an immediate air of calm, peace and beauty. Rabbits and squirrels scamper before you. And there in front you is the house.

It’s an AA 2 star / 1 Rosette hotel in an 18th century grade 2 listed country house, in three acres of parkland. Charles Dickens lived nearby and is sure to have visited his friends there. Indeed was it this house which is mentioned in Great Expectations?
“Satis House” says Pip.
“That’s a curious name.”
“It’s Greek or Latin or Hebrew, maybe all three, for enough” she replied.
“It means that whoever lives in the house could wish for nothing more.”

We agree. All rooms have ensuite facilities. Two are ‘superior’ rooms, one with a four poster, the other with a half-tester bed and an antique bath. Both rooms have lovely views. All the rooms are sympathetically furnished to complement the hotel. However, be warned, Satis house has only seven double/twin rooms, and our course takes 20 people. So we have made bed and breakfast arrangements for six of our guests to stay in a really nice B&B opposite. We’ll fill the hotel first, and on a first come/first served basis. So please do not delay placing your booking.

The hotel is ideally situated for exploring this wonderfully unspoilt part of Suffolk. Visits can be made to Aldeburgh’s pretty ancient seaside town, Snape Maltings where the annual music festival started by Benjamin Britten is held, the Minsmere Bird Sanctuary, or Framlington Castle.

Where is Satis House Hotel

Satis House Hotel is located at Yoxford, a town in the eastern-most part of England, in Suffolk. The nearest large towns are Ipswich, 23 miles to the south, and Lowestoft, 20 miles to the north. Yoxford is 100 miles north east of London. It is 60m east of Cambridge, and Coventry is about 130miles.

Satis House Hotel
Yoxford
Nr Saxmundham
Suffolk
IP17 3EX
tel: 01728 668418
fax: 01728 668640
no web site

Directions to get there by road:

From London:

Yoxford is just two hours from London on the A12. Satis House is literally on this road.
Just before Ipswich, the A12 becomes the A14. Take the right A14 (easterly) direction (towards Felixtowe, Lowestoft and Great Yarmouth).
It’s the by-pass south of Ipswich. After about 7 miles on the A14, take the left turn on the A12. After Woodbridge (c6 miles) , the carriageway becomes single-laned. Continue about 17 miles until you reach the small town of Yoxford. Here, the A12 road curves sharply to the left. Satis house is on your left. The road curves round it. Its clearly marked entrance is about a further 100 yards on your left. There is more than ample parking.

From the Midlands (A1/M1/A14):

Take the A14 at the M1/M6 junctions, go past Kettering, Huntingdon, Cambridge Bury St Edmunds to Stowmarket. A couple of miles past Stowmarket, turn left onto the A1120. Take the A1120 to Yoxford (c23 miles) where you turn left onto the A12 (Ipswich to Lowestoft Road). At once, the A12 road curves sharply to the left. Satis house is on your left. The road curves round it. Its clearly marked entrance is about a further 100 yards on your left. There is more than ample parking.

By train:

Go from London’s Liverpool Street station to Ipswich.
Change to the Lowestoft line and go six stops to Darsham. It is less than a mile from Satis House.

By Air:

The nearest airport is Stansted, though it is 70 miles away.

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