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Vows at noon,still dancing on Sunday.

A 1640 tithe barn, a walled garden
& a mere  ·  The Cotswolds

2 nights fromExclusive use2 nights from £16,500

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Mayfold · Exclusive use · The Cotswolds

A stone house, a 1640 tithe barn, a walled garden and a mere. The barn seats 150 for dinner and 200 for the dancing, and 48 of you sleep on the estate. From £8.5k, for two whole nights, none of it belongs to anyone else.

Seated in the tithe barn
150
Guests for the evening
200
Sleep on the estate
48
From, two nights, exclusive use
£8.5k

The estate

A rose-covered ceremony arch with white drapes at the end of a jetty aisle, the mere and the stone house beyond

Vows on the mere

An arch of white roses at the end of the jetty, benches on the boards and the house across the water behind you.

Ceremonies for 150

Long dressed tables down the tithe barn, oak trusses overhead and the cart doors open to the fields

The tithe barn

Built in 1640 to hold the parish harvest. Oak trusses, lime-washed walls and room for long tables under the beams.

Dinner for 150 · Dancing for 200

Mist on the mere at golden hour, a wooden jetty with two chairs, the house across the water

The mere

Come golden hour, the mist lifts off the water. A jetty with two chairs at the end, and the photographs everyone frames.

Five minutes from the barn

The honey-stone house and barn at golden hour, roses on the walls and a gravel forecourt

The house

The stone house and its cottages are yours for both nights, so the people you love wake up here too.

Sleeps 48

Stay

Sleeps 48, so nobody drives home.

Two nights, every bed on the estate. Families in the house, friends in the cottages, the last ones dancing up in the hayloft.

48beds, all yours

  • 24House
  • 18Cottages
  • 6Hayloft
The bridal bathroom: a copper roll-top bath under a leaded stone window

Sleeps 24 · 12 rooms

The House

The bridal suite under the eaves and eleven rooms along the old stone corridors, for both families and anyone who wants a bath before breakfast.

  • The bridal suiteFour-poster
  • Bedrooms12, all en suite
  • Getting readyThe drawing room
Explore the House
The Dairy's sitting room: a wood stove in a stone inglenook and a linen sofa

Sleeps 18 · 4 cottages

The cottages

The Dairy, the Stables, the Granary and the Forge, around a cobbled yard. Every family gets its own front door, and its own kettle.

  • The DairySleeps 6
  • The StablesSleeps 4
  • The Granary · The ForgeSleep 4 each
Explore the cottages
The hayloft's gable window seat, with mist lifting off the mere outside

Sleeps 6 · Above the barn

The Hayloft

Six bunks under the oak rafters, up the stairs from the dance floor. For the friends who will be the last to leave.

  • Bunks6, built in
  • BathroomShared, two showers
  • To the dance floor30 steps
Explore the Hayloft

Food & drink

A kitchen that cooks for the whole weekend.

Friday supper, the wedding breakfast, Sunday lunch: one kitchen, one menu conversation, and everything cooked on the estate.

A waiter carries a silver tray of spritzes across the lawn at golden hour, blood orange, strawberry and berry red, guests and the willow soft behind
Saturday · 6pmDrinks on the lawn
Dinner set down in the barn by candlelight: a roast lamb shoulder, honeyed toasts and a pan of burrata, festoon lights along the trusses
Saturday · 7pmDinner in the barn
A bartender strains a red bramble into a crystal coupe at the oak bar in the barn, candles and fairy lights behind
Saturday · 9pmThe bar
A slice of wood-fired pizza lifted from the board in the cottage courtyard at night, the chef at the glowing oven behind
Saturday · 11pmBites at midnight

Friday

Supper in the yard

A long table by the fire pit for everyone who arrives early.

Saturday

The wedding breakfast

Drinks on the lawn, dinner in the barn, the bar, then bites at midnight.

Sunday

The long lunch

A slow roast for everyone still here. Rooms are yours until it's over; leave by 4pm.

Menus are planned with you at a tasting in the house kitchen.

The house and the tithe barn seen across the mere at golden hour, mist on the water, a jetty and a weeping willow on the near bank

06 · Prices & dates

The whole estate, yours

Prices

Two nights, Friday to Sunday, with all 48 beds. Catering and the bar are quoted on your numbers. A quarter holds the date; the rest is due eight weeks before.

  • A bride and groom forehead to forehead at golden hour, her hand on his cheek and a bouquet of ivory and blush roses, the house soft across the mere behind themMay – September

    Summer

    Estate hire£16,500

    Saturday wedding, two nightsFriday £13,500

    Food & drink from £110 a head

     

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  • A bride and groom sitting on the lawn among fallen leaves, kissing, a burgundy bouquet in her lap, the creeper-covered tithe barn and a copper beech behind them in October sunApril & October

    Spring & autumn

    Estate hire£13,500

    Saturday wedding, two nightsFriday £11,500

    Food & drink from £110 a head

     

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  • A laughing groom carrying his bride in the falling snow, her fur boot kicked up and a burgundy bouquet trailing, the snow-roofed house and barn across the mere behind themNovember – March

    Winter

    Estate hire£10,500

    Saturday wedding, two nightsFriday £8,500

    Food & drink from £110 a head

     

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The weekend

Arrive Friday,leave on Sunday married

Two nights with every bed on the estate. Here's how it tends to go.

  1. Friday afternoon on the gravel in front of the tithe barn: the couple kiss behind a pile of suitcases and the dress bag while their friends cheer around them, the barn doors open

    Friday2pm

    Keys to the house, supper in the yard.

    Everyone who arrives early eats at the long table by the fire pit.

  2. Just married under the rose arch at the end of the jetty: the couple kiss while the guests behind them cheer with arms and bouquets in the air, the house across the mere

    Saturdaynoon

    Vows at the end of the jetty.

    Benches on the boards for 150, and the house across the water behind you.

  3. Late on the dance floor in the barn: the bride laughing with her arms up and the groom hugging her from behind, both in heart-shaped sunglasses, ribbon wands and glow sticks all around

    Saturday11pm

    Still dancing. Pizza from the oven.

    The barn bar runs late, and the courtyard oven feeds everyone at eleven.

  4. Sunday lunch at one long table under the trees on the lawn: the couple kiss at the near end while guests down both sides raise their glasses, the house at the end of the avenue

    Sundaylunch

    A long, slow Sunday lunch, then home.

    The rooms are yours until it's over; leave by 4pm.

Kind words

“We arrived on Friday as two families and left on Sunday as one. Nobody had to drive anywhere, and nobody wanted to.”
Ella & Tom · Married in June
A bride and groom forehead to forehead at golden hour, her hand on his cheek and a bouquet of ivory and blush roses, the house soft across the mere behind them

Ella & Tom

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Come andsee it for yourself

The house and the tithe barn seen across the mere at golden hour, mist on the water, a jetty and a weeping willow on the near bank

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Tell us about your weekend.

Tell us your date and your numbers, or come and walk round on a viewing. We reply within one working day.

Viewings Monday to Thursday, 10am to 4pm, and an open evening on the first Thursday of each month.

No obligation. The date isn't held until you say so.