Events can be fully or partly self-catered using the facilities in the Kitchen Barn or one of our approved catering companies can be bought in to provide a formal or informal meal. Self contained mobile catering of your choice can usually be approved for those who want festival style catering outside the buildings. Guests can opt to camp in the private barn fields with lake views, making this a cost-effective as well as beautiful location for your wedding. The standard hire is for two days and additional nights can be booked around weekends.
The Big Barn is a wonderful large room, 12 x 12 metres, with a high roof, tall oak windows, a stage at one end and large glass doors opening out to a terrace overlooking the lake. There is a stone fireplace and woodburner, mood and stage lighting. A very reasonably priced bar is open post ceremony until midnight of your wedding day and we charge a corkage fee of 10%.
The Kitchen Barn has a commercial kitchen at one end and wooden tables, benches and seating at the other.
The Tall Barn forms the entrance to the Big Barn. There are steep steps on one side to alpine-style sleeping platforms for up to 20 people which can be used creatively for sleeping, storage, quiet kids area and as a dressing room.
Internal heated bathrooms are accessed from the Big Barn have three toilet cubicles, including one wheelchair accessible, two hot showers, additional basins, and many mirrors.
The Barn Yard outside has parking for about 30 cars, and an outside toilet block with 3 additional toilet/shower cubicles. There are two electric hook-ups here.
Two camping fields run down to the lake. When hiring the barns, you get private use of these fields, which can be used for tent camping or small campervans; in addition, there is space for a few caravans beside the hedgerow at the top of the Barn Field, where there are four electric hook-ups. Further parking is available on the campsite overflow car park by arrangement.