Access Statement
This access statement is intended to provide additional information for all guests who wish to attend our restaurant and rooms.
The following statement is a summary of the services and facilities you can expect.
Pre-Arrival
● Saxmundham and Darsham railway stations are both 15 minutes away by car. Train timetable available at www.raileasy.co.uk or telephone 0845 600 72 45.
● There are 2 local taxi companies, Hart Cars: 01728 602009. A2B Travel: 01728 633003.
● We have an informative website, featuring a 3-minute video that showcases the public areas. Current menus are also listed.
● You can contact us via telephone, fax or email (details below).
Arrival & Car Parking Facilities
● There is a large car park adjacent to the accommodation with a short concrete path leading to the pub/reception. The car park is a level, flat, slightly loose surface with no raised kerb stones and ample lighting.
● We can assist guests with their luggage.
Main Entrance, Reception & Ticketing Area
● The reception is at the bar within the pub.
● The bar entrance has a low concrete ramp and an inward-opening door measuring 750mm wide.
● The door is generally locked between 3 and 6 pm; during this period, guests are required to press the doorbell for assistance.
● Guests are escorted to their rooms, and the facilities are explained.
Public Areas – Hall, Stairs, Landing, Corridors, etc
● There is a short corridor leading from the bar through to the rear courtyard. Off this corridor are the ladies' and gents' toilets.
● Entrance to the toilets is 6 metres from the bar area.
● Exit into the courtyard is through an opening outward door; the door is 780mm wide and has a threshold step of 130mm high.[2] There is an alternative entrance to the courtyard via the garden.
Public Areas – Sitting room, lounges, lobbies, etc
● All bedrooms have their own seating area.
● The pub provides extra seating during opening hours.
Public WCs
● The ladies' WCs within the pub have an inward-opening door with a width of 720mm (wheelchair access) and a quarry tiled floor. The window provides natural light.
● The ladies' facility has 2 cubicles with inward-opening doors 700mm wide (no wheelchair access), a hand-wash basin with soap dispenser and paper towels.
● The gents’ WC within the pub has an inward-opening door with a width of 720mm (no wheelchair access due to a privacy panel) and a quarry tiled floor. The window provides natural light.
● The gents' facility has 1 cubicle with an inward-opening door 700mm wide, a hand-wash basin with soap dispenser and paper towels, traditional floor-level urinal trough.
Restaurant / Dining Room, Bar & Bar area, Take Away & Cafe
● The dining room is entered from the bar, door width 760mm.
● The bar floor surface is smooth quarry tiles; the dining room has a short-pile carpet.
● Both the bar and dining room have plenty of natural light, and traditional wall lights provide low artificial light.
● Furniture is flexible and can be moved on request; chairs are available with and without arms.
● Leg room beneath tables is 630mm.
● Low-sensitivity background music is played throughout; the speakers can be turned off in the dining room.
● Full waitress service is available.
● Tables can be reserved at preferred times.
● All diets catered for, please discuss at the time of booking.
● Food orders taken as follows: breakfast 8.30 – 9.15, lunch 12.00 – 2.00, dinner 18.30 – 21.00 (currently closed Monday and Tuesday lunch).
● Meal expenses can be transferred to rooms for payment on departure.
Outdoor Facilities
● The pub sits on 4 acres of land, on the edge of a village overlooking the countryside.
● At the rear of the pub is a newly constructed courtyard with a feature 16th-century cart lodge. The courtyard has mainly a loose gravel surface. Within the courtyard, there is a slab patio and a raised deck with a shelter; the step onto the deck is 220mm high.
● There are plenty of outside tables and chairs, some with shade.
● The sheltered deck is used by smokers in inclement weather.
● Access to the courtyard is through the bar; however, if better suited, there is a rear gated entrance.
● At the front of the pub, there is further outdoor furniture.
● Adjacent to the accommodation is a large lawn area with outdoor furniture and sun shades.
Bedrooms & Sleeping Areas
● Adjacent to the pub in a detached building are 5 self-contained bedrooms, all rooms have been refurbished in the last 2 years.
● Two bedrooms are on the first floor, three are on the ground floor.
● Access to rooms 1,2,3,4 and 5 is from a small foyer.
● The foyer entrance door opens in with a width of 750mm, there are 2 steps at 100mm and 150mm high. The foyer door remains unlocked at all times.
● Rooms 1,2 and 3 are off the first floor landing via a staircase, the staircase has a left hand rail and 12 steps, each step measures 770mm wide, 200mm high, with a tread width of 250mm deep. The landing is 1m wide by 10m long.
● Rooms 4 and 5 are off the foyer.
● Foyer, staircase and landing have short-pile carpet.
● The lighting in the foyer is timed from dusk to 1 am. Further lighting for the foyer, staircase and landing is from activated time-delayed switches; there is 1 switch inside the foyer and 2 on the landing.
● Strictly no smoking in rooms or around external entrances. Strictly no pets.
● All rooms have the following in common: Inward opening entrance doors, en-suite facilities, fire protection, modern thermostatic controlled heating, wall mounted flat screen TV/DVD with multi channels, teletext and remote control, hospitality tray with cordless kettle, hair dryer, free wireless connection for personal laptops, natural daylight in the bedroom, short pile carpet, matching antique pine furniture, bed side tables with reading lamps, lounge seats, towels and toiletries, quilts and pillows.
● Our ground floor Twin Standard Room is suited to a less able person and offers the following extras: concrete ramp access, 1m high 13amp sockets, wet room (see bathroom section below), wheelchair access from bed to wet room.
Touring Facilities (Holiday Parks)
● 100m to the rear of the public house and with its own entrance, is a Caravan Club CL site.
● By pre-booking only.
● Certified 5 pitches only and open all year to Caravan Club members.
● Hardstanding pitches with an electricity hookup.
● Fresh drinking water.
● Chemical waste emptying point.
● Various waste recycling bins.
● Please note there is no outside public toilet for the caravan site.
Additional Information
● We accept all major credit/debit cards except American Express.
● We accept personal cheques only when supported by a guarantee card.
● Mobile phone reception can be inconsistent in the area. A free wireless network is available in the bar and bedrooms. Please ask at the bar for the password.
Contact Information
Sibton White Horse Inn
Halesworth Road
Sibton
Suffolk
IP17 2JJ