One wedding at a time

Tell us your date and this page will tell you what the light does that evening, and how many the rooms hold laid out the way you want them.

The rooms, and what they hold

Six rooms and two gardens

Every number on every one of these is worked out from the real dimensions of the room. There is no capacity field to type into.

The barn Seats up to 220 · holds 220 standing The doors face south-west, down the meadow

The long room Seats up to 139 · holds 171 standing Windows the whole length of the south wall

The walled garden Seats up to 200 · holds 200 standing Open to the sky, sheltered on all four sides

The orchard Seats up to 180 · holds 180 standing West-facing, into the last of the light

The parlour Seats up to 40 · holds 40 standing North-east, cool all day

The hay loft Seats up to 80 · holds 80 standing One gable window, due west

The place, on ordinary days

No weddings in any of these. It is easier to picture your own in a room that is empty.

Long tables set with flowers and candles running away from the camera — Trestles down the length. 190 at 650 mm each.

A bee on a lavender flower head — The lavender walk. It hums.

The word love in warm neon against the dark boards of a barn wall — It lives in the barn. It is staying.

Sunlight through the glass of a planted greenhouse — The glasshouse, which is where everyone ends up.

A single place setting with a sprig of greenery on the plate — One cover. Multiply by the number the room actually holds.

A flower bed of day lilies against a trellis by a barn wall — The border by the barn, late June.

A stone barn in a green valley under low mist — From the top of the lane.

Jam jars of gypsophila hanging from a ladder against a painted plank wall — Jars, string, and someone with an afternoon.

A dressed table with glassware, flowers and folded linen — Glass and linen are ours. Flowers are yours.

Weathered blue-green double doors open onto a planted garden room — The garden room doors, open from May.

Deep red acer foliage in close detail — The acer by the gate, second week of October.

Hands writing a place card at a set table — Place cards go out the morning of.

Everything, in one table

Computed from each room's real dimensions. Where a licence caps a room the licence wins, and the number here is the licence.

Room	Floor	Round tables	Long tables	Ceremony rows	Standing reception
The barn	318 m²	166	190	220	220
The long room	127 m²	69	79	139	171
The walled garden	688 m²	180	200	200	200
The orchard	1,144 m²	180	180	180	180
The parlour	55.2 m²	31	35	40	40
The hay loft	111 m²	59	68	80	80

What the light does

Computed for this valley, not for the nearest city — Somerset, England. Times are the venue's own.

Saturday 17 October 2026

Sunrise: 7:37 am over the east
Light goes golden: 5:28 pm the hour photographers ask for
Sunset: 6:14 pm behind the west side
Usable light gone: 6:47 pm lights on after this
Highest the sun gets: 30° 12:56 pm

How the day runs

Built backwards from the light on 17 October 2026, because the light is the only part of the day you cannot move. Change the date above and the whole running order moves with it.

12:28 pm Doors You are in. So are the flowers, the cake, and whoever is doing the music.
1:58 pm Ceremony Forty minutes, near enough, whatever anyone has told you.
2:58 pm Drinks outside The walled garden if the wind is up, the orchard if it is not.
3:58 pm Sit down Two and a half hours for three courses and the speeches. It always is.
5:28 pm Out for photographs The hour worth interrupting the speeches for — and the reason the times on this page are computed rather than guessed.
6:14 pm Sunset Behind the west side. The doors are usually open by now.
6:47 pm Lights on Festoons in the barn, lanterns down the path. The band starts.
10:17 pm Carriages Music off at midnight, everybody out by half past. The licence is the licence.

Come at the hour you would get married

Not at eleven on a Tuesday morning. The light is the whole point of this place and it is completely different, and you will not be able to tell from photographs — including ours.

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