La Grange de Montmartre hosts gala evenings, product launches, plenary sessions, trade shows, team-building days, company Christmas parties and weddings. The barn seats up to 400 guests for a meal or holds 700 standing, and a covered space takes 450 for a cocktail. The venue is in the village of Barbery, in the Oise, 5 minutes from Senlis and the A1 motorway.
Seminars and company events
The venue has welcomed private and business events for more than 12 years. Formats listed on its site include gala evenings, team-building days, New Year receptions, children's Christmas shows, afterwork parties, garden parties, fun-fair themed evenings, plenary sessions and professional trade shows. Companies named among its clients include bioMérieux, Société Générale, Bayer, Lidl, Embraer, Chanel, Colas and the Université de technologie de Compiègne. The venue also works with event agencies.
Hire gives exclusive use of the site, with lighting, water, electricity and heating included between October 1 and March 30. Furniture is rented on site from a wide range of tables, chairs and fittings.
Weddings and receptions
The rooms are designed so that a reception can go ahead whatever the weather. A ceremony can take place in the garden or under the covered space, the cocktail outdoors or under cover, and dinner in the barn by the fireplace. On a Saturday, the site is available from 11 a.m. to 8 a.m. the next morning, and until 6 a.m. on other days. A brunch the following day is available as an option. A babysitting room for about 10 children, equipped with a TV and a DVD player, sits on the mezzanine, and a private room is reserved for the hosts.
Rooms and capacities
The barn measures 460 m² (17 by 27 meters) and has a cut-stone fireplace. It takes up to 400 guests at a seated meal or 700 standing. The covered cocktail space, open since June 2013, measures 250 m² and holds 450 guests for a cocktail or a ceremony. The 140 m² entrance hall leads to the cloakroom and the restrooms. Outside are a garden for cocktails and a 1.5-hectare landscaped park with a view of several kilometers across the plain. A private car park has 100 spaces, with an extra parking area on stabilized grass. The site is accessible to guests with reduced mobility.
Catering
The venue works with the caterer of your choice and provides a 45 m² caterer's kitchen with direct access to the barn and the garden. It has stainless steel work surfaces, folding service tables, a refrigerated cabinet, a professional dishwasher, a lockable drinks store, a changing room and restroom for staff, and a reconditioning oven for rent. A reserved parking area with outdoor 220 V sockets allows a refrigerated truck to plug in.
Accommodation
There are no bedrooms on site. The venue lists short-stay rentals and hotels in Senlis and refers guests to the Senlis-Chantilly tourist office for other options.
History and setting
The barn was fully renovated in 2009 with natural and modern materials. The venue describes itself as both modern and authentic, a rural place with a past, in a small Oise village with open views over the surrounding plain.
Getting there
The address is 1 rue du Général Taupin, 60810 Barbery. The venue is 5 minutes from Senlis and the A1, about 20 minutes from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport and from Compiègne, and about 30 minutes from Porte de la Chapelle in Paris.
