Wedding Venue: Weston Park

Overnight Accommodation at Weston Park

Once the wedding is over, where can you stay at Weston Park? In addition to the 28 luxurious bedrooms within the house itself to choose from, there are a few other places on the estate, where you can stay overnight.

The Weston Park estate is home to five unique historic holiday properties each with their own story. 

The Weston Park Foundation, the independent charitable trust that owns and maintains the estate has given each property a new lease of life balancing comfort and modernity whilst remaining sympathetic to their extraordinary heritage thus providing a rare opportunity to stay in the heart of this historical estate.

Booking details can be found in the relevant links below.

The Temple of Diana

The Temple of Diana sleeps 6 in three double bedrooms, set over three floors with two being en-suite. This Grade I listed building is actually another Orangery on the Weston Park estate. 

The Knoll Tower

The Knoll Tower sleeps 2 and is set over three floors, leading up to the top floor sitting room with panoramic views over the 18th century parkland.

Pink Cottage

Pink Cottage sleeps 2 and has a quirky pink and blue exterior in a beautiful hideaway nestled in the heart of Temple Wood.

The Potting Shed

The Potting Shed sleeps 2 and is on one floor. It has beautiful white washed walls and quirky features, but with all the home comforts that you would expect.

The Gardener’s Bothy

The Garden Bothy sleeps 2. With its exposed brick and old country wooden floor, this property has been given a warm scheme. But it still has all the modern touches expected with an open plan living space and a hi-spec kitchen.

These are self-catering properties. But if you don’t feel like cooking the Granary Brasserie is just a short walk or drive from each property.

The Granary Brasserie is open daily from 9:30am to 5pm serving breakfast, light bite lunches, coffee and homemade cakes. They also offer a la carte dinner menus on a Friday and Saturday evening.

Breakfast – 9.30am – 11.30am

Lunch – daily – 12noon – 2.30pm

Dinner – Friday and Saturday evenings

Sunday Lunch – 12noon – 4pm

The History of Weston Park

The history of Weston Park goes back to land first mentioned in the Doomsday Book when it was held by Norman Rainald de Bailleuil, Sheriff to Roger de Montgomery.

The house was built in 1671 for Lady Elizabeth Wilbraham. Although it is often claimed that she was her own architect, there is no conclusive documentary evidence for this and it is most likely that the executant architect was William Taylor, who is known to have been at Weston Park in 1674. Lady Wilbraham was evidently an enthusiastic patron, however, and her heavily-annotated copy of Palladio’s book remains in the collection at Weston Park.

The three-storey, twelve-bayed south front of the House was originally the entrance front but alterations and improvements carried out in the latter 19th century for Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford of the second creation involved the movement of the main entrance to the east front. The original courtyard of the “U”-shaped house was roofed over above the ground floor, and closed off by a new front.

In the eighteenth century, with the failure of the male line of the Newport Earls of Bradford, Weston was inherited by Sir Henry Bridgeman, 5th Baronet, whose mother Lady Anne Bridgeman (née Newport) was a granddaughter of Lady Wilbraham. The Bridgemans were already substantial landowners in Shropshire and in Warwickshire but chose to make Weston their main seat. Sir Henry Bridgeman commissioned Capability Brown to landscape the park. He also employed James Paine in the 1760s to make alterations to the House and, in the park, to add a Roman Bridge and Temple of Diana.

Weston Park Art Collection

Weston Park’s art collection includes many portraits from the 17th to 20th centuries, with rare pieces such as two portraits of ladies of the Wilbraham family by John Michael Wright, two early portraits by John Constable, and two portraits of apparently the same child by Sofonisba Anguissola.

Most major English 18th-century portraitists are represented, and there are a number of portraits by Anthony van Dyck and his workshop; that of Sir Thomas Hanmer is especially fine. There is a George Stubbs of horses, and a pair of coastal scenes by Claude Joseph Vernet (Calm and Storm). It’s here that you’ll also find a set of 12 finely carved chairs in the Entrance Hall created by Chippendale himself.