Country house venues

Weston Manor Hotel, Northampton Rd, Weston-on-the-Green, Bicester, Oxfordshire OX25 3QL

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Hotel, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 60 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Restaurant
• Bar
• Terrace
• Gardens
• Meeting rooms
• AV equipment
• Exclusive use
• Bridal suite
• Accessible bedroom
• EV charging
• Parking

Grade II* listed manor at Weston-on-the-Green near Bicester, once an Osney Abbey estate and a hotel since 1946. The 15th-century Baron's Hall takes 60, wedding packages are priced for 60 guests, and the Conference Room seats 20 around one table. There are 34 bedrooms and 12 acres of gardens.

Trunkwell House, Beech Hill Road, Beech Hill, Reading, Berkshire RG7 2AT

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Christmas parties, Team building, Exclusive use, Private Dining, Country house

• Up to 350 guests
• Exclusive use
• Outdoor ceremonies
• Marquee
• Rooms to stay
• Bridal suite
• In-house catering
• Dry hire
• Bar
• Dance floor
• Gardens
• Parking
• Accessible facilities

Privately owned, exclusive-hire Victorian country house venue in 34 acres of Berkshire countryside near Reading, with a licensed summer pavilion, a Garden Marquee for up to 350, six boutique bedrooms, and over 25 years of hosting weddings, corporate events, team building, parties and Christmas.

Ufton Court, Green Lane, Ufton Nervet, Reading, Berkshire RG7 4HD

Great for: Weddings, Barn venue, Country house

• Up to 150 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Barn
• Gardens
• Bar
• PA system
• Wi-Fi
• Bridal preparation room
• Accessible facilities
• Parking

Grade I listed Elizabethan manor and 16th-century timber-framed Tithe Barn in 16 acres at Ufton Nervet, on the Berkshire and Hampshire border. Ceremonies for 15 to 150 in three indoor and three outdoor spaces, Fosters Catering, no corkage, and all profit goes to the children's education charity based at the house.

Ardington House, Church Street, Ardington, Wantage, Oxfordshire OX12 8QA

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Team building, Exclusive use, Country house, Riverside venue, Conference venue

• Up to 200 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Riverside marquee
• Rooms to stay
• Outdoor swimming pool
• Tennis court
• Fly fishing
• Walled gardens
• Helicopter landing site
• Free parking
• Wi-Fi
• Dog friendly

A Georgian house built in 1719–21 near Wantage, home to the Baring family since 1939 and hired out exclusively with its walled gardens, Temple Island and a furnished riverside marquee for 200. Twelve bedrooms sleep up to 25, and the house hosts weddings, house parties, company retreats and filming.

Englefield House, Englefield, Reading, Berkshire RG7 5EN

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Celebrations, Country house

• Up to 1,000 guests
• Exclusive hire
• Marquee space
• Gardens
• Stage
• Grand piano
• Commercial kitchen
• Meeting rooms
• PA system
• Wi-Fi
• Lake
• Private car park
• Parking

Englefield House is the Benyon family's private home on a 14,000-acre West Berkshire estate near junction 12 of the M4. The state rooms seat 140 for dinner and the gardens take marquees for 1,000. The wider grounds can hold events for up to 10,000.

Solton Lane, East Langdon, Dover, Kent CT15 5JB

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Exclusive use, Barn venue, Country house, Party venue

• Up to 250 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• On-site accommodation
• Stage
• Dance floor
• Bar
• Air conditioning
• Hot tub
• Children's play area
• Games room
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

A Grade II listed manor house near Dover, first recorded in the Domesday Book, with a converted 1950s Dutch Barn that seats 200. Exclusive-use weddings, parties and corporate events use nine acres of gardens and five licensed ceremony spaces, and up to 28 guests can stay overnight.

The Grange Hampshire, Estate Office, Folly Hill Farm, Itchen Stoke, Alresford, Hampshire SO24 9TF

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Hotel, Country house

• Up to 200 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• On-site accommodation
• In-house catering
• Theatre
• Meeting space
• Breakout rooms
• Swimming pool
• Tennis court
• Vineyard tours
• Lakes
• Parkland
• Marquee site

A neo-classical mansion and family estate near Alresford, home to The Grange Festival and an English sparkling wine vineyard. Weddings use the house, its porticos or the smaller Abbotstone Barn, and the estate also hosts business retreats, milestone birthdays and stag or hen weekends with up to 20 bedrooms.

Pylewell House, Pylewell, East End, Lymington, Hampshire SO41 5SJ

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Christmas parties, Team building, Private Dining, Country house, Conference venue

• Up to 200 guests
• Exclusive use
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Gardens
• Beach access
• Bar
• Dance floor
• Kitchen for caterers
• Meeting rooms
• Outdoor event space
• Dog friendly
• Parking

Seventeenth-century country house on the Solent near Lymington, hired on an exclusive basis with private beach access and views to the Isle of Wight. Ceremonies take place under a sail structure or in the Colefax and Fowler drawing room, and the Pavilion seats 200. Weekend weddings include 13 bedrooms for 26 guests.

Goodnestone Park, Goodnestone, Canterbury, Kent CT3 1PE

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Team building, Exclusive use, Country house

• Up to 150 guests
• Exclusive use
• Rooms to stay
• Civil ceremony licence
• Marquee
• Gardens
• Bar
• PA system
• Café
• Self-catering cottage
• Parking

Queen Anne house of 1704 near Canterbury, once visited by Jane Austen, in 15 acres of gardens. Wedding weekends with the 12-bedroom house for two or three nights, an Orangery marquee seating 120 in the warmer months, and corporate stays for up to 24.

Mapledurham House, The Estate Office, Mapledurham, Reading RG4 7TR

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 200 guests
• Gardens
• Bar
• Civil ceremony licence
• Tipi
• Marquee
• Riverside
• Moorings
• Meeting rooms
• Exclusive use
• House tours
• Outdoor event space

Family estate beside the Thames near Reading, owned by Richard Blount's descendants since 1490, with the last working watermill on the river. Weddings use licensed outdoor ceremony spaces and a permanent oak-framed tipi for 160 seated and 200 in the evening. The Grade I listed Old Manor takes meetings of 15 to 20.

Broadlands Park, Romsey SO51 9ZD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Celebrations, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 500 guests
• Event parkland
• Orangery
• Civil ceremonies
• Concert site
• Helicopter landing
• Wi-Fi fibre
• Filming locations
• River fishing
• Walled gardens
• Woodland
• Parking
• Rail access

The Mountbatten family's estate at Romsey, with 4.5km of the River Test and a 135-acre parkland that has staged concerts by Elton John and Lionel Richie. It hosts civil and celebrant-led ceremonies, corporate events and filming.

Nurstead Court, Nurstead Church Lane, Meopham, Gravesend, Kent DA13 9AD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Country house

• Up to 200 guests
• Rooms to stay
• Bar
• In-house catering
• Gardens
• Marquee
• Dance floor
• Exclusive use
• Outdoor ceremonies
• Private dining
• Sound and lighting
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

Grade I listed manor house near Gravesend, built in 1320 and home to the Edmeades family for 400 years, in 300 acres of Kent farmland. It is always hired exclusively. Ceremonies take 75 in the Drawing Room, and the garden marquee seats 120 for dinner and 200 in the evening. Ten guests can stay in Stable Cottage and three shepherd's huts.

Avington, Winchester, Hampshire SO21 1DB

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Team building, Private Dining, Country house, Riverside venue

• Up to 180 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Exclusive use
• Rooms to stay
• Lakeside barn
• Orangery
• Rose garden
• Trout fishery
• Estate pub
• Hot tubs
• Wild swimming
• Free parking
• Wi-Fi

A family-owned estate of 300 acres in the Itchen Valley near Winchester, where Charles II once lived with Nell Gwynn. Weddings for up to 180 use the Orangery and Library, with ceremonies in the rose garden or by the river. Lakeside Otters Barn hosts smaller weddings, Christmas parties and company days.

Hampden House, Hampden Road, Great Hampden, Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire HP16 9RD

Great for: Weddings, Corporate Events, Meetings, Celebrations, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Exclusive use, Country house

• Up to 100 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Estate church
• Gardens
• Terrace
• Bridal suite
• Bar
• Wi-Fi
• Parking

Grade I listed Chiltern house shaped over 650 years by the Hampden family, 40 minutes from London. Weddings take exclusive use of the house, with four licensed ceremony spaces and a 14th-century church on the estate. Packages start at £22,500, and the house also hosts corporate, charity and private events.

Nether Winchendon House, Nether Winchendon, near Thame, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire HP18 0DY

Great for: Weddings, Celebrations, Exclusive use, Barn venue, Country house

• Up to 250 guests
• Exclusive use
• Gardens
• Rooms to stay
• Bar
• Dance floor
• Marquee
• Barn

Grade I listed Medieval and Tudor manor near Thame, in the same family since 1559 and remodelled in the Strawberry Hill Gothick style in the late 18th century. Exclusive-use weddings in the 18th-century Carriage Barn (85 dining, 120 evening) or marquees for up to 250 on three lawns, with church or garden ceremonies.

Brickwall House, Northiam, Rye, East Sussex TN31 6NL

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use, Country house

• Up to 70 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Drawing Room with grand piano
• Great Parlour Room
• Walled garden
• Topiary chess garden
• Arboretum
• Get-ready room
• No corkage fee
• On-site venue manager
• Parking
• Outdoor pool

A Grade I listed Jacobean manor at Northiam, on the East Sussex and Kent border, used for small exclusive-use weddings of up to 70 day guests. It has three licensed ceremony spaces and a walled garden with yew topiary chess pieces.

Friars Court, Clanfield, Oxfordshire OX18 2SU

Great for: Weddings, Exclusive use, Country house

• Up to 80 guests
• Civil ceremony licence
• Outdoor ceremony space
• Exclusive use
• Gardens
• Museum
• Wheelchair-accessible paths

Mid-17th-century Cotswold stone house inside a 500-year-old moat at Clanfield, Oxfordshire, on a site founded by the Knights of St John in 1149. A ceremony-only venue: vows in the gardens for up to 80, with the Garden Room as the indoor option, and receptions held elsewhere.

Chiddingstone Castle, Hill Hoath Road, Chiddingstone, Kent TN8 7AD

Great for: Weddings, Country house

• Up to 600 guests
• Exclusive use
• Civil ceremony licence
• Orangery
• Marquee lawn
• Bridal suite
• Bar
• Tea room
• Gift shop
• Museum
• Gardens
• Lake
• Parking

Grade II* historic house and museum in Chiddingstone, Kent, closed to the public for weddings. Four licensed ceremony spaces include the award-winning Victorian Orangery. The Tudor Great Hall seats 80, evening receptions take 150, and South Lawn marquees take up to 600.