The Butterchurn: a one-bedroom lodge for two at The Firs
Updated: Oct 19
The Butterchurn: a one-bedroom lodge for two at The Firs
Sleeps 2 · 1 bedroom · 1 bathroom · approximately 250 sq ft · Converted 18th-century farm building
The Butterchurn is the smallest of our six lodges, and the one people tend to book when they want as little as possible between them and the countryside. It's a studio: bed, sofa, kitchen and dining table all in one room, with a star-gazing window above the bed.
Size and layout
Approximately 250 sq ft
Open-plan living space
One kingsize Hypnos cashmere bed
One sofa and a dining table
One bathroom with a shower
Star-gazing window
Kitchen
Induction hob
Oven
Fridge with a small freezer compartment
Nespresso machine
No dishwasher
Heat and fire
Esse Warmheart wood-burning stove
Private wood-fired hot tub, sized for two: a still, quiet soaking tub with no jets and no lights
Private firepit
A hot tub made for stillness
The hot tub at The Butterchurn is a wood-fired soaking tub, kept simple on purpose: warm, still water, with no jets and no lights.
Calm. Still water and steady heat slow you down, with no pumps or bubbles to compete with.
Quiet. Without the roar of jets, conversation stays soft and the whole site stays peaceful.
The surroundings. You can hear the countryside, and with no lights in the water the night sky is yours to watch.
What isn't here
Worth knowing before you book:
No television. None of our lodges have one — that's deliberate, though the wifi is good throughout
No dishwasher
No dogs. We don't accept them anywhere on the site
The washing machine and dryer are in the Boot Room, a separate building shared with other guests
Available on request
Travel cot
Floor bed
Who it suits
Two people who want a proper retreat rather than a base for day trips. There's one room, so it works if you're comfortable sharing a space entirely. If you'd rather have a separate living room, The Cowshed is the better fit at the same capacity.
The building
The Butterchurn and The Cowshed together formed the original cowshed, back when The Firs was a dairy farm in the 1970s. A great deal of milk passed through this building.
The ceilings, beams and doorways are the original framework. The old dairy floor sloped significantly, which is why the ground levels and ceiling heights still shift as you move through. We lifted the pamment tiles that covered that floor and reused some of them as the hearth for the wood-burning stove.
The other lodges
Email Alison directly: info@thefirssuffolk.co.uk
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