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GATHERINGS & CELEBRATIONS
20 round one table
The vaulted dining room seats your whole party at a single table, and the rest of the old pub keeps the evening going.
WHAT THE HOUSE IS FOR
Built for a celebration
Read the guest book and the same words keep coming back: a 30th, a 40th, 2 50ths in a month, a 70th with 3 generations, a golden wedding, a hen weekend, a work reunion, a family Christmas. The Anchor has become the house people take when the occasion is too big for anyone's dining room.
The room that does the work is the vaulted dining room: rough whitewashed stone, a single long table laid for 20, filament bulbs hanging from the curve of the ceiling. One Christmas entry records all 17 sat down to dinner together, comfortably.
The rest of the house keeps the evening going. The bar that once served the village is now your party's, the games cabin takes the teenagers, the snug takes the quiet ones, and the hot tub takes whoever is left.
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE LONG TABLE
THE EVENING
Dinner in the undercroft, pool in the cabin, the hot tub until ten.
FROM THE PUB YEARS
The original bar
THE GUEST BOOK
Birthdays, in their own handwriting
Every group leaves a page. Golden weddings, 50ths, hen weekends, 4 generations under one roof: the book in the porch tells it better than we can.
The book is waiting for your page.
“It was all about family!”
Matt's 50th · a 3-generation weekend
“The house was perfect for our needs. We particularly enjoyed the hot tub, games room and log burning stove.”
A Golden Wedding and a 50th · 5 days, the Comments page
“A great house for 4 generations of a family.”
Four generations · from the guest book
“This has been the perfect place to celebrate with the family. Lots of space for the youngest generation to play.”
Anne and Robert · June, from the guest book
Things organisers ask
THE WHOLE HOUSE
Booked by one group at a time, sleeping up to 20.
CATERING
Self-catering, with a kitchen guests rate highly; outside catering is available if you'd rather not cook.
HENS & STAGS
Hen weekends are considered with advance notice and a higher bond; stag groups aren't taken at this house.
ARRIVAL
Check-in from 16:00, departures by 10:00, with a meet and greet at the house.
EVENINGS
The hot tub closes at 10pm and music stays indoors; the village sleeps nearby.
START PLANNING
Name the occasion
Tell us your dates, how many of you there are and what you're celebrating, and we'll come back with availability and a quote for the whole house.
Or call 01600 732050