The Festive Season
at Keythorpe Hall
The festive season is magical at Keythorpe Hall. Roaring fires in the fabulously decorated fireplaces, Christmas trees decorated with flowers from the Walled Garden, carefully dried in the cellars during the year, dreamy wreaths on the doors, and the dining table set for long lunches and dinners. Enjoy this special time of year with your family and friends all under one roof. Spend the days singing carols around the Christmas tree, going on long country walks or warming yourself at the fireplaces while enjoying the views over the frosty rolling hills.
Private Dinners & Events
Keythorpe Hall is available for private dinners over the festive period. Menus, cooked by inhouse chef Bent Varming, using produce from our walled garden and neighbouring farms, start from £95 per person. Please get in touch for availability and more information.
THANKSGIVING
We’ll roast the turkey, bake the pies, and dress the table with flowers from our walled garden. Whether you are looking for a traditional Thanksgiving meal, a fully curated weekend of activities, or simply quality time with friends and family, we will ensure every detail is perfectly arranged for your celebration. Let our team create a Thanksgiving to remember.
CHRISTMAS
Begin your Christmas holiday by decorating the Christmas tree with your whole family, or leave it to us and arrive with all the Christmas magic waiting for you! We will curate a Christmas celebration to remember, one that you dream of, and bring your family traditions to Keythorpe Hall for the occasion. We leave no stone unturned in terms of the finer details in every menu, decoration or activity! Please see some inspiration for festive activities below and please get in touch to start planning your very own Christmas stay.
Festive Activities
Christmas Carols
Enjoy traditional British Christmas Carols in one of the historic local churches or bring the carols to Keythorpe and enjoy them in full privacy.
Winter Wild Food Walk with our Forager 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 Tablescaping
To decorate Keythorpe Hall in winter we use lots of evergreen shrubs 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 our florist 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?
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 design 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 neighbouring Rutland. 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! Perhaps Santa himself will pay a visit too…
