Borde Hill can host board meetings, conferences, client entertaining and away days in a 16th-century Elizabethan mansion, with a private dinner for up to 70 in the Animal Room and a licensed marquee for up to 80. The venue is a garden and estate near Haywards Heath in West Sussex, and your group has the grounds as its break-out space.
Seminars and company events
The mansion has period rooms dating from the 16th century up to the Edwardian age. The estate presents them as a setting for board meetings, conferences and private client entertaining. A small group can work in these rooms, then move through the house to dinner without leaving the site.
In the evening the Animal Room can be used for a seated dinner, in theatre or cabaret style, for up to 70 people. The Dining Room suits a more intimate meal and comfortably seats 20. Both are named on the corporate hire page.
The estate does not offer a break-out room. It offers the garden instead: your clients or team can walk out and explore, which the estate links to wellbeing and a clearer head. The garden is described as a nationally important English country garden planted as a series of outdoor garden rooms, with highlights such as the Azalea Ring and an Italian garden.
Rooms and capacities
The marquee can be privately hired for up to 80 people. It is licensed and available for daytime events only, and the hire includes garden entry. The estate suggests it for celebrations, client entertaining, meetings and staff away days.
The mansion's rooms do not carry a published capacity on the pages we read, apart from the Animal Room at 70 and the Dining Room at 20. Ask the team for the number of people each period room can take for a meeting layout.
Catering
The hire pages list a range of catering options. They run from coffee and pastries on arrival to a buffet or a served lunch, with afternoon tea as another option. The venue is fully licensed. The estate also runs cafés and a restaurant in the garden, listed as Edie's Kitchen, the Pantry and Isca, which sit on the same site as your event.
History and setting
Borde Hill is a garden and estate that sets a 16th-century house within a Grade II* listed parkland of 383 acres. The garden is made of 13 garden rooms, and the woodland and parkland add more space for walks. A heritage project called Reinventing Borde Hill, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, aims to open up 110 acres of the listed parkland.
The estate also offers a wellbeing area with a sauna and, for other hires, a Victorian glasshouse and parkland for film and photo shoots. Corporate groups can ask whether any of these additions fit their day.
Getting there
The pages we read do not give a station or distance. The website has a travel directions page, and the nearest town is described as a short distance from the garden. Plan group arrivals with the events team.
