By 1919 Munnings decided that he was sufficiently financially secure to buy a house 'somewhere in Suffolk with a river'. One afternoon Munnings came across the village of Dedham, where he picnicked in the garden of Castle House 'an elegant white Georgian house, built within the courtyard of an original Tudor one, and set in forty acres of grounds. It was surrounded by fine old trees, paddocks and meadows with grazing cows. Through the trees were glimpses of the Stour Valley and its river following through Constable country... Munnings had found the house of his dreams'. He bought Castle House for £1,800 and lived there for the rest of his life.
(J. Goodman, What a Go! The Life of Alfred Munnings, London, 1988, pp.152-53).