Christmas at Keythorpe Hall
We would love to welcome you for Christmas at Keythorpe Hall this year! Please see below a suggested itinerary which can be fully customised to make your stay extra special.
22nd December
Start your Christmas celebrations with a family style dinner championing the best of the Walled Garden and local farms.
23rd December
Sustainable Christmas wrapping with Charlotte Gaunt from Rediscovered By.
Inspired by the Japanese wrapping technique of Furoshiki you will design and screen print your own organic linen and learn various wrapping techniques to create unique, yet sustainable, Christmas presents.
Charlotte Gaunt (Rediscovered By) is a textile designer and screen-printer based in Rutland, UK. Trained at Goldsmiths University and the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Charlotte rediscovers historical and traditional textile techniques and applies these in unexpected ways to diverse range of interiors, from historic homes to contemporary spaces. At Keythorpe Hall, Charlotte has designed various prints with flowers from the garden, used her foxgloves print for a dreamy bed head in one of the bedrooms and has created amazing printed table linen for Keythorpe’s dining room.
Meet Santa’s Reindeers
Let the kids sprinkle some magic reindeer food on the lawn and wait for some of Santa’s real reindeers to arrive!
24th December
Winter Wild Food Walk with our Head Gardener and Ethnobotanist Claudio Bincoletto
Once the forager for the Italian army, Claudio has a wealth of experience teaching at Petersham Nurseries, as speaker for the RHS and doing wild food cooking demonstrations at food & country shows across the UK. He will take you on an educational tour of the grounds to explore the wild food growing around us and will finish in the walled garden where we grow the fruit and vegetables you'll be eating!
Christmas Tablescape with Pickleberry Flowers
To decorate Keythorpe Hall in winter we use lots of evergreen scrubs and trees from the garden but we also dry the cut flowers grown in the walled garden throughout the summer season. We even use flowers in the Christmas tree! Create a spectacular Christmas table with Isobel from Pickleberry flowers, who will show you all the tricks of creating something beautiful with the seasonal material on hand.
Vermouth Making & Christmas Cocktails
Learn how we create our very own Keythorpe Vermouths with tinctures made of botanicals from the garden and local wine. Then play around with different ingredients, creating your very own Christmas Eve Cocktails. Laurel Cherry Negroni anyone?
25th December – Christmas Day
Wake up to a champagne breakfast around the Christmas Tree and open your beautifully wrapped gifts.
Christmas Day lunch – a feast of the best produce from the Walled Garden and local farms!
26th December – Boxing Day
Start the day with a Boxing day Brunch, enjoy the views with a glass of wine or go on a long country side walk. After dinner, relax with a Christmas movie on big screen in the Great Hall.
27th December
Departure after breakfast
