Venues in Bath & Somerset
Bath, Bruton, Castle Cary and the Wiltshire edge at Colerne: Georgian stone, country houses and estates in the West Country, a night away from London.
Bath & Somerset
Osip
Modern British Restaurant
Up to 38 guests
Merlin Labron-Johnson's Michelin-starred farm-to-table restaurant with rooms, in a former country inn outside Bruton, with a private dining room and whole-restaurant hire.
Bath & Somerset
Da Costa
Italian Restaurant & Bar
Up to 200 guests
Artfarm's northern Italian restaurant at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, with Oddur Roth's artwork bar and the Oudolf Field, all bookable for a private event.
Bath & Somerset
The Newt in Somerset
Hotel
Up to 140 guests
A Georgian house hotel and garden estate near Bruton, with private dinners in a glazed garden café, a Victorian glasshouse and a threshing barn.
Bath & Somerset
Homewood
Hotel
Up to 110 guests
A country house hotel in 21 acres outside Bath, let whole for up to 110 guests, with a chandelier-hung dining room, a garden orangery and a spa.
Bath & Somerset
Clevedon Hall
Country House
Up to 250 guests
A Grade II* listed Jacobethan house at Clevedon, let whole for evening celebrations, gala dinners and parties over several days, seating 150 and holding 250 for the evening.
Bath & Somerset
Lucknam Park
Hotel
Up to 120 guests
A Palladian country house near Bath, let whole with 42 bedrooms and a MICHELIN-starred restaurant seating 80.
Bath & Somerset
The Gainsborough Bath Spa
Hotel
Up to 100 guests
A Georgian former hospital on Beau Street with its own thermal spring, a chandeliered Chapel for receptions of up to 100, and exclusive use of the whole hotel.
Bath & Somerset
The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
Hotel
Up to 120 guests
A five-star hotel at the centre of Bath's Royal Crescent, with an acre of walled gardens, Georgian function rooms and whole-house exclusive use.
Bath & Somerset
The Bath Priory
Hotel
Up to 72 guests
An 1835 house of Bath stone in four acres of gardens on the edge of Bath, with south-facing private dining rooms, a 72-seat restaurant and whole-house exclusive use.
Bath & Somerset
Pennard House
Country House
Up to 180 guests
A Jacobean and Georgian manor in the Somerset orchards, let whole: dinner for 120 in a beamed Coach House, a bar and dance floor below, 13 bedrooms in the house.
Bath & Somerset
THE PIG near Bath
Hotel
A Grade II-listed Georgian house in the Mendip Hills with a deer park, a walled Kitchen Garden and a chandeliered private dining room seating 22.
Bath & Somerset
The Bishop's Palace, Wells
Event Space
Up to 155 guests
An 800-year-old moated palace beside Wells Cathedral, with a candlelit vaulted Undercroft let for private dinners after hours.
/ About Bath & Somerset ▾
Bath grew around hot springs. The Romans built a temple beside them in the first century AD, and the bathing complex of Aquae Sulis was added to over the centuries that followed. Edgar was crowned king of all England in the Saxon abbey in 973, and the present Bath Abbey began in 1499. The Georgian city followed: John Wood the Younger designed the Royal Crescent, thirty houses in Bath stone built between 1767 and 1775. Bath was inscribed as a World Heritage Site in 1987, and again in 2021 as one of the Great Spa Towns of Europe. To the south, Bruton is a small Somerset market town on the River Brue.
The hire product is the country house, often Georgian or older and built in the local stone. A client chooses between a house let whole, with exclusive use of its rooms, gardens and bedrooms; an estate, which adds parkland and space for a marquee; and a country-house hotel, which sells private dining and function rooms with a kitchen and guest rooms in place. The houses spread from Bath into Somerset around Bruton and Castle Cary, and into Wiltshire at Colerne. Capacity is set by the largest room, the grounds and what a marquee adds. Because guests stay, the bedroom count matters as much as the dining figure.
Bath & Somerset is the furthest of the country areas from London. Great Western Railway runs from London Paddington to Bath Spa in around 1 hour 20 minutes, and the last trains to London leave Bath at about eleven. Castle Cary, the station for Bruton, takes from one and a half to over two hours, with far fewer trains back in the evening. By road the M4 carries the journey west. An evening event here is usually an overnight stay, with guests arriving in the afternoon and leaving after breakfast.