The hay loft
One gable window, due west
Up a staircase, so not for everyone, and worth saying so early. One window, facing west, which for about twenty minutes in July does something to the room that no lighting designer has managed to reproduce.
How many it holds
The room is 111 m². Once the bar, the cake table, the band and the gangways are out, 95.3 m² of it is floor you can put people on. Everything below follows from that.
Some layouts would physically fit more, but the licence caps this room at 80 and the licence wins.
| Round tables | 59 6 tables | 1.8 m rounds of ten, three metres apart, with service to every table. |
|---|---|---|
| Long tables | 68 | 650 mm of table edge each, seated both sides, 1.4 m between runs. |
| Ceremony rows | 80 | Chairs at 450 mm, rows 900 mm apart, a 1.2 m aisle and side gangways. |
| Standing reception | 80 | Two thirds of a square metre each, which is a glass in hand and room to turn round. |
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