Goldsborough Hall can take a board meeting of ten, a conference of 120 in the Orangery or a wedding ceremony of 150, and its grounds hold marquees for more than 250 guests. The house stands in the village of Goldsborough, near Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, six miles from Harrogate and close to the A1(M). It can be hired on an exclusive basis, and it also has bedrooms, a fine dining restaurant and 12 acres of gardens.
Seminars and company events
The events team builds packages for small and large groups. The Athlone Room and the Lonsdale Room suit board meetings and working lunches, the Orangery takes conferences and trade shows in theatre or U-shape, and Princess Mary's Drawing Room pairs an eighteenth-century fireplace with modern presentation equipment for meetings and dinners. For product launches, gala dinners and charity events, a marquee can be raised on the Lime Tree Walk, with access and parking through an adjoining field for up to 1,000 people. A conference and events brochure is available from the hall.
Weddings and receptions
The hall has hosted weddings since 2006 and is licensed for ceremonies indoors and outdoors. Ceremonies can take place in Princess Mary's Drawing Room for up to 150 guests, in the Orangery for 110 or in the Sir Richard Hutton Room for 90, and St Mary's Church takes 120 guests for a Church of England service. Drinks move to the Jacobean Library or the afternoon sun terrace. Exclusive-use packages cover one or two nights, and each couple works with a dedicated coordinator and a toastmaster. Marquee wedding breakfasts go beyond 250 guests.
Rooms and capacities
Princess Mary's Drawing Room measures 117.9 sq m and takes 32 to 135 guests. The Sir Richard Hutton Room, 85.6 sq m and facing east, takes 14 to 110 and keeps its eighteenth-century Robert Adam pillars. The Orangery, 107.2 sq m, seats 40 to 120 and reaches 160 with a small marquee on its terrace, onto which its doors open. The Lonsdale Room takes 14 to 24 and connects to the Orangery, and the Athlone Room takes 4 to 10. Both look onto the gardens.
Accommodation
Bedrooms and suites are spread across the upper floor of the main house, the Dower House and the Garden House, some with four-poster beds. Wedding packages include the rooms for the wedding night with breakfast, and the hall points other guests to hotels in towns about two miles away.
Catering
Catering is in-house. The restaurant holds three AA rosettes and cooks with seasonal Yorkshire produce, and the kitchen serves three-course wedding breakfasts, private lunches and dinners, and afternoon tea.
History and setting
The hall was built around 1620 for Sir Richard Hutton, acting Lord Chief Justice, and remodelled in the 1750s by Robert Adam and John Carr of York. It then belonged to the Lascelles family, and in the 1920s it was the home of Princess Mary, the great aunt of King Charles, who laid out the gardens. Mark and Clare Oglesby bought the derelict house in 2005 and restored the building and grounds.
Getting there
The hall is six miles from Harrogate and close to the A1(M). Wedding guests have marshalled private parking on site.
