The Orangery
Glass on three sides, the garden on the fourth. Ceremonies for up to 120, and the drinks afterwards spill onto the terrace.
Capacities
A house, a barn, sixty acres · One wedding a day
Marry in the garden. Dance in the barn. Wake up in the house.
A Georgian house and its grounds, kept for one wedding at a time. Up to 180 at dinner, fourteen bedrooms for the people who matter, and a coordinator who has done four hundred of these and still cries at the speeches.
CeremoniesReceptionsElopementsWeekend weddingsFourteen bedroomsLicensed since 1998One wedding a day
- 180
- Seated for dinner in the barn
- 14
- Bedrooms in the house and coach house
- 60
- Acres of garden, park and wood
- 4.9★
- From 312 couples
One wedding a day, and the whole place is yours.
There is no second party in the east wing and no conference in the Library. From ten in the morning until the last car leaves, the house, the barn, the gardens and the beds are yours and your guests'. The ceremony can be in the Orangery, under the oak on the lawn, or in the barn with the doors open; dinner is in the barn or the Great Hall; the dancing is wherever the band is. The house sleeps thirty, the coach house another eight, and breakfast the next morning is the part everyone remembers.
- A coordinator from the first visit to the last dance, included in every package.
- Our own kitchen, our own cellar, and a list of suppliers we trust but never insist on.
- Wet-weather plans for every outdoor space that are not a marquee on the car park.
01The spacesAll yours for the day
Four rooms and a garden
The Great Barn
Eighteenth-century brick and oak, a sprung floor and a bar at the far end. Dinner for 180, dancing for 250.
Capacities
The Walled Garden
Ceremonies under the oak, drinks on the lawn, supper at one long table on a warm night. A tent goes up in an afternoon if the sky turns.
Capacities
The Library
Panelled, fire lit from October, and licensed for forty. The room for an elopement, a winter wedding, or the speeches.
Capacities
“We did not want a venue. We wanted a house that happened to have a barn. This was the only one.”
Hannah and Josh · Married in the Walled Garden, June
02A day hereA Saturday in June, as it usually goes
How the day tends to run
Every wedding is planned from a blank sheet, but four hundred of them have taught us a shape that works. Move anything.
- 10:00The house
The house is yours
Bridal party into the Garden Rooms, breakfast on the terrace, suppliers on site from eleven.
- 14:00The Orangery or the oak
Ceremony
Thirty minutes, give or take the readings. The registrar comes to you.
- 14:45The Walled Garden
Drinks on the lawn
Canapés from the kitchen, lawn games if you want them, photographs while the light is good.
- 16:30The Great Barn
The wedding breakfast
Three courses from our kitchen; speeches between the main and the pudding, or before, or never.
- 19:30The Great Barn
Cake and the first dance
The band or the DJ from eight; the bar runs until half past midnight.
- 21:00The barn yard
Evening food
Something from the fire pit for the evening guests and anyone who was too nervous to eat earlier.
- 00:30The Great Barn
Last orders, last song
Carriages at one. The house guests wander up the drive; breakfast is at nine.
4.9·312 reviews
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03Recent weddings
As it looked
04DatesNext summer, as it stands
Which Saturdays are left
Booked is booked. Limited means a hold is on it and we will know within the week. Fridays and Sundays are wide open and a good deal cheaper.
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| 1 — Booked | 2 — Available | |||||
| 3 — Available | 4 — Available | 5 — Available | 6 — Available | 7 — Available | 8 — Booked | 9 — Available |
| 10 — Available | 11 — Available | 12 — Available | 13 — Available | 14 — Available | 15 — Limited | 16 — Available |
| 17 — Available | 18 — Available | 19 — Available | 20 — Available | 21 — Available | 22 — Booked | 23 — Available |
| 24 — Available | 25 — Available | 26 — Available | 27 — Available | 28 — Available | 29 — Booked | 30 — Booked |
| 31 — Available |
| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun |
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| 1 — Available | 2 — Available | 3 — Available | 4 — Available | 5 — Booked | 6 — Available | |
| 7 — Available | 8 — Available | 9 — Available | 10 — Available | 11 — Available | 12 — Limited | 13 — Available |
| 14 — Closed | 15 — Closed | 16 — Closed | 17 — Available | 18 — Available | 19 — Booked | 20 — Available |
| 21 — Available | 22 — Available | 23 — Available | 24 — Available | 25 — Available | 26 — Booked | 27 — Booked |
| 28 — Available | 29 — Available | 30 — Available |
- Available
- Limited
- Booked
- Closed
The full calendar runs two years ahead; ask and we will send it. A midweek date in the same month is usually a third less.
From Eleanor, who runs the house
I have coordinated four hundred and eleven weddings here and I can tell you the thing that makes a day: not the flowers, not the band, not even the weather. It is whether the people running the place are on your side. We are.
There is one wedding a day because I will not split my attention between two couples, the kitchen is ours because I will not apologise for someone else's chicken, and the beds are in the house because the morning after is half the point.
Come and walk it with me. If it is not the place, I will tell you, and probably suggest one that is.
Eleanor Ashby
Coordinator, since 2015
We host forty weddings a year and no more. The rest of the time the house is quiet, and that is how it stays lovely.
Come and see it
Saturdays go two summers ahead. Walk the house first.
Show-rounds are Tuesday to Thursday and most Sundays, an hour with the coordinator, no obligation and no sales talk. Bring whoever helps you decide.
One wedding a day, always. Yours is the only one in the house.