One wedding a day.
From 9am until the carriages at midnight, the barn, the orchard and the cottages are yours alone.
Book a viewing
Or come to the open day on Sunday 15 November
A threshing barn of about 1790 at Harlton, six miles south-west of Cambridge, kept by Hannah and Tom Fairweather, whose family farms the fields around it. Weddings here since 2016.
The Threshing Barn, laid for 150
The day, by the clock.
9am
The barn is yours
Florists and stylists arrive, and you get ready in the Granary, the old grain store on staddle stones.
1pm
The ceremony
On the old threshing floor, or under the Bramley trees in the orchard from May to September.
2pm
Drinks in the cart lodge
Canapés from our kitchen, the bar in the open bays and the whole yard to spill out into.
4pm
The wedding breakfast
Up to 150 at long tables under the oak trusses, with three courses cooked in the barn's own kitchen.
7.30pm
The great doors open
Evening guests arrive, up to 220 in all, and the first dance is on the brick threshing floor.
Midnight
Carriages
The music stops at midnight. Bed is a walk across the yard, in the Stable Cottages.
Four old buildings round one yard.
The barn was built to thresh wheat by hand, with great doors on both sides so the wind carried the chaff away. The yard round it is still laid out as it was.
The Threshing Barn
Black weatherboard outside, limewash and oak queen-post trusses inside, and the original brick threshing floor between the great doors. Licensed for civil ceremonies and civil partnerships.
150
seated, 220 in the evening
The Orchard
Old Bramley apple trees behind the barn, for ceremonies outside from May to September, with the barn made ready in case it rains.
120
seated, under the trees
The Cart Lodge
Five open bays facing the yard: the bar, the drinks reception, two fire pits and a wood-fired oven.
220
standing, for drinks
The Granary
A little grain store raised on staddle stones, where the two of you get ready in the morning.
8
you and six friends
“We married under the orchard trees and danced on the threshing floor until the carriages came. Hannah had thought of everything before we did.”
Ellie and Sam, Saffron Walden
What it costs in 2027.
Venue hire is the whole day, 9am to midnight, and two nights in the cottages. Food and drink are priced on their own, so you pay only for the guests you invite.
We hold a date for seven days, free, while you decide. A quarter of the hire secures it, and the rest is due twelve weeks before the day.
Saturdays
May to September
£9,850
Fridays and Sundays
May to September
£7,650
Any day
October to April
£5,950
Monday to Thursday
All year round
£4,950
Always included
The barn, yard, orchard and cart lodge, 9am to midnight
A ceremony in the barn or the orchard
Tables, oak chairs, festoon lights and the fire pits
Your own coordinator, from the day you book
The Granary to get ready in
Two nights in the Stable Cottages, sleeping 18
Not a wedding? Birthdays, anniversaries and company days: daytime from £2,400, evening parties from £3,600, for up to 220 guests.
Ask about a date
Cooked in the barn's kitchen.
Marta Kowalczyk runs our kitchen, and cooks with the seasons and with whatever is ready in the farm's walled kitchen garden.
Canapés, four a guest
from £12 a head
The wedding breakfast, three courses
from £72 a head
Evening food from the cart lodge oven
from £15 a head
Children under 12
£24
A tasting for the two of you is included. The bar is ours, or bring your own wine at £14 a bottle corkage.
“Marta's lamb is still what our guests talk about, two years on.”
Ravi, Royston
Bed is a walk across the yard.
The old stables are four cottages now, named after the horses that worked from them. They sleep 18, and they are yours for the night before the wedding and the night of it.
Extra nights from £190 a cottage. There is a breakfast hamper in each for the morning after, and check-out is at 11am.
Shire
sleeps six, with a bath by the window
Punch
sleeps four
Hackney
sleeps four
Cob
sleeps four
Come and see it first.
Private viewings run Tuesday to Saturday and take about an hour, with Hannah or Tom. Bring whoever you like; there is always cake.
Open days
Sundays, 11am to 3pm, with the barn dressed, the kitchen cooking and the suppliers we work with there to talk to.
Sunday 15 November 2026
Sunday 17 January 2027
Sunday 7 March 2027
Rather talk first?
01632 960418
WhatsApp 07700 900418
hello@pightlebarn.co.uk
Book a private viewing, or a place at an open day.
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Six miles from Cambridge.
Haslingfield Road, Harlton, Cambridge CB23 1ER
Twenty minutes by taxi from Cambridge station, and ten minutes from junction 12 of the M11. There is parking for 80 cars in the paddock.
The office
Tuesday to Saturday
9am–5pm
Sunday and Monday
Closed, except open days