Hornton Grange is a 1920s house let for exclusive use to up to 150 evening guests, with six bedrooms on site, inside the Edgbaston Park Hotel grounds in Birmingham. It hosts weddings, parties and private celebrations. The hotel around it adds the Fry Suite for up to 240 guests and a full conference offer on the University of Birmingham campus.
Seminars and company events
Edgbaston Park Hotel runs conferences, away days, team-building days and private meetings, two miles from Birmingham city center and outside the city's Clean Air Zone. The conference range includes the Fry Suite, the Lloyd Suite, Pevsner, the Writers' Suite, the Composers' Suite, the Garth House boardrooms and Peter Scott House. The Lloyd Suite sits in Hornton Grange. The hotel can give a corporate group exclusive use of four venues, so a working day can end with a barbecue, a black-tie banquet or an evening party.
Planning follows a set path: a call or a form, a proposal with dates held, a viewing, then a contract with a deposit. A low-carbon Green Meetings package is also offered.
Weddings and receptions
Hornton Grange is licensed for civil wedding ceremonies. The venue is let for exclusive use and includes a private bar, landscaped gardens and the six bedrooms. It takes 100 guests for ceremonies and wedding breakfasts and 150 for the evening. A wedding coordinator follows the booking from the first contact.
Larger weddings can use the Fry Suite, which takes 180 guests for ceremonies and wedding breakfasts and 240 in the evening, with a private bar and a dance floor. Parties are also hosted: birthdays, engagements, anniversaries, baby showers, proms and celebrations of life, with up to 100 guests in the Grange for the latter.
Rooms and capacities
Hornton Grange combines period features with an airy skylit extension and a lounge, and opens onto private gardens used for photographs. The Lloyd Suite, in the same house, is described as suited to groups of 150 or fewer. The Fry Suite is the hotel's largest and most flexible room. Garth House, a Grade II listed house with Arts and Crafts interiors, is used for private dinners of up to 12 guests, although a second page of the site gives 14.
Accommodation
Exclusive use of Hornton Grange comes with six deluxe bedrooms, and the party packages include breakfast the next morning. The wider hotel has 185 bedrooms plus serviced apartments for out-of-town guests.
Catering
The hotel has a restaurant, a bar and an afternoon tea menu. Wedding breakfasts are served in the venue, and party packages offer a barbecue, a pork bap buffet or a finger food buffet. For celebrations of life, afternoon tea or a finger food buffet is available. Low-carbon menus are part of the Green Meetings package.
History and setting
Hornton Grange dates from the 1920s and keeps its period features, with landscaped gardens around it. It belongs to Edgbaston Park Hotel and Conference Centre, a B Corp certified hotel on the leafy Edgbaston campus of the University of Birmingham. Hotel guests have free access to the university's gym and pool and to the Lapworth Museum of Geology.
Getting there
The address is 53 Edgbaston Park Road, Birmingham B15 2RS. The hotel is a 14 minute walk from University station and offers free parking. Birmingham city center is two miles away.
