No you don’t. We have a choice of round tables or rustic trestles, with oak cross backed chairs. We also have a cable drum which looks beautiful as a cake table, and a restored sewing table for the registrars. The lounge and bar areas are fully furnished, and we have beautiful outdoor seating for the terrace too. All of our furniture is included in your venue hire. However, if you have a specific style in mind you are welcome to hire your own from elsewhere.

Define small. It makes not a jot of difference to us whether there are two of you or 120, as the price for the venue is to block book the whole thing with all accommodation included. So if you want to have the place to yourself, or pack it to the rafters, it’s your call. The price will be the same and the two nights are yours to enjoy. However, if you’re feeling spontaneous, and are looking to book within the next 12 months, then we have introduced a midweek Micro Package for up to 30 guests, which includes day hire of the estate from 10am to 5pm.

All on-site accommodation comes complete with fully equipped kitchen facilities. For your wedding celebration in the Wedding Barn, we will provide all glassware, wine coolers and water jugs, but you should speak to Karen Rhodes Catering about everything else, such as crockery, linen, a knife to cut the cake etc.

Yes we do. The bar is fully licensed, opening at a time to suit you on your wedding day (no earlier than 11am) and closing at midnight.

Yes it can, and at no additional cost. Who doesn’t want a drink the night before the wedding?! We would just ask that you give us at least 1 month notice so that we can arrange appropriate staffing.

We have a fully stocked bar and a really good wine list. Our prices are competitive and we have some wonderful drinks packages to suit a range of tastes and budgets. We are also happy to try and source anything specific that you would like that isn’t on our wine list.

That said, wine and fizz are personal choices and people like what they like. Therefore, you are able to bring your own wine and fizz for the drinks reception and/or the wedding breakfast, subject to a corkage charge of £10 per bottle of wine, £15 per bottle of prosecco or fizz and £25 per bottle of champagne.

Quantities are limited to two glasses of fizz per person for the drinks reception, one glass of fizz per person for the toast and half a bottle of wine per person for the wedding breakfast. We will run the Town Head bar alongside throughout the day.

Please note that any such drinks will be prearranged with us in advance and an appropriate charge made for corkage. We do not permit guests to bring any other drinks, including spirits.

We’ve taken a LOT of advice on this to make sure we get it absolutely right. If we cover the Barn in fairy lights, and fairy lights are not your thing, then we’ve cramped your style before you’ve even started decorating. So, we’re going subtle. We’ve lit the walls, we’ve lit the beams, and we’ll leave the fun stuff to you. That said, we have installed RGB lights in the ceiling so you can actually light the ceiling any colour you wish (including white), or have it scrolling through the colour wheel for the full party effect. There are lots of power points hidden away up in the beams where you can’t see them, and a wire running around the walls to attach decorations to, but other than that we’ll leave it to you to create your perfect backdrop. The Barn is beautiful left just as it is, but you may well have some amazing ideas to really make the space your own.

Via our speakers!! We have installed a full speaker system in the Barn, all you need to do is download your playlist onto Spotify (or similar) and share it with our team, and we’ll do the rest.

We permit live entertainment in the Wedding Barn until 12 midnight. However, we do have to be more careful outside and especially down by the lake as sound does travel across the water. As such, live music is not permitted outside after 7pm, and no music (live or recorded) is permitted down by the lake in the evenings to avoid disturbing our neighbours on the opposite shore. Reduced noise levels will be required down there in respect of both recorded and live music during the day.

Yes we do, although it’s set to very reasonable limits. We are conscious that we are situated in a national park, and we want to be mindful of our neighbours and our surroundings. Noise travels, and we want everyone to be able to enjoy themselves safe in the knowledge we’re not disturbing anyone else.

Apart from catering, which is provided exclusively by Karen Rhodes Catering, yes, absolutely. We can recommend some great suppliers for all kinds of other things, but we won’t restrict you to using the ones that we like. We take no commission from any suppliers, and we are happy for you to engage any suppliers of your choosing. We would however ask that you check any suppliers that you want to use with us first so that we can make sure they are fully insured, and will work sympathetically with the historic listed buildings and parkland that make up Town Head Estate. In addition, if a previous couple has had a bad experience, then we would encourage you to choose someone else as poor service would not only spoil your experience, it would reflect badly on us as a venue.

Yes. Check in for accommodation is from 3pm, and we are happy to make the Wedding Barn available from then for you and your team to begin decorating. Suppliers are welcome to speak to us directly to tell us what they need and if we can help, we will. Our only stipulations that any decorations at height, such as lighting, MUST be installed by a professional with appropriate indemnity insurance. You don’t want to be falling off a stepladder the day before the wedding.

We permit live entertainment in the Wedding Barn until 12 midnight (indoors only after 11pm). However, we do have to be more careful down by the lake as sound does travel across the water. As such, music (live or recorded) is not permitted by the lake in the evenings to avoid disturbing our neighbours on the opposite shore, and reduced noise levels will be required down there in respect of both recorded and live music during the day.

Absolutely not. Your wedding is your day. The price reflects the fact that you will have exclusivity of the venue. Our family lives on site but the wedding facilities are yours to use. There are no footpaths through any part of the Estate, so you are guaranteed privacy.

Yes we are. Our licensed areas include the Wedding Barn and the Boat House, in addition to various other outdoor areas (see below).

Yes you can. Outdoor ceremonies are permitted under UK law providing the venue is licensed and has nominated specific areas that fall within that license. See our Outdoor Ceremony Locations for outdoor areas that currently fall under our wedding license.

We are still surprised we even get asked this question. Yes, of course we do.

No we don’t. It is up to you to speak to the Registration services (or visit the website at https://www.westmorlandandfurness.gov.uk/).

Yes it is. We love children and grannies alike. There is plenty of space to run around and children will love the lakeside location. Barn Cottage includes a family suite on the upper level which has a king sized bed, additional sofa bed and en suite with a bath rather than just a shower, which makes it perfect for a family with children. The Wedding Barn is fully accessible for pushchairs, and there is a baby change station in the toilets on the lower ground floor level in the Barn.

Yes. The Wedding Barn is fully accessible for wheelchairs. As it is built on a slope, access is at ground level from both the lower and upper floors, although wheelchair users may require some assistance up the slope, or someone to hold a brolly in bad weather. Please let us know if this is the case as we are more than happy to help. We will also deploy our trusty wedding buggy as required. There are disabled toilets on both levels. We have one ground floor mobility friendly bedroom with separate fully accessible bathroom within the East Wing. Wheelchair users can also access the Bridal Preparation and Beauty Suite.

No you don’t. We have a luxury shower block with three toilets which is a short walk uphill from the Boat House, which makes it super convenient for all of our outdoor ceremony locations.

It is the Lake District after all, and despite the sun always shining on the righteous, there is always the possibility of a shower or two. But don’t panic. We have a 6x15m all-weather clear roofed clear sided marquee which sits neatly over the terrace, providing some shade on the sunniest of days when we can remove the sides completely, and shelter when it’s tipping it down. It’s easily big enough for your drinks reception. It has beautiful outdoor furniture, cushions, blankets, chandeliers and heating when required. The weather will do what it will do, but it shouldn’t be the thing that you worry about.

Yes we do. We have a shower and toilet block near the car park and campers are welcome to pitch in the paddock up to a maximum of 12 tents. We can’t allow camping in the parkland unfortunately due to the presence of livestock throughout the year. We can recommend suppliers for bell tents should you wish.

Yes, for the daytime in the Barn and grounds, provided they are under control. Not in any of the other internal areas though, including all accommodation and the beauty room. Your dog may be the smallest and best behaved dog on the planet, but our next guests may have an allergy, so we do need to be absolutely strict on this policy. We can however recommend some excellent kennels nearby.

We have one EV charging point. You will require your own charging cable for this, and will need to download and setup the Monta Charge app to use it.

Unfortunately not. You are however welcome to hire these in or provide your own. We just recommend talking to a member of the coordination team first to see how this will fit with your chosen room layout. Please also bear in mind if you are thinking about a projector, that there are no blinds or curtains in the barn so if it is a bright day this will affect the display.

We ask for 30% of the total amount to secure your date. The balance is payable (along with a damage deposit of £1,500) 12 weeks before your wedding.

We understand that for various reasons your plans may need to change, so please talk to us. Your deposit is nonrefundable but if something has happened that means you need to change your date for genuine reasons, then we will do our best to find you a new date. Similarly, if we manage to resell your original date then we will refund an amount of your deposit to reflect the amount of the new deposit we have received. Obviously, the more notice we have, then the more likely it is that we can find another booking in the time scale, although we make no promises that we will be able to do so.