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Houchins Wedding Venue

Contemporary Essex barn with beautiful listed farmhouse accommodation for the bridal party

Essex, Colchester

£3,500 - £15,000

180 guests

9 reviews

A choice of four unique spaces to hold your wedding ceremony

Capacity for 150 guests for both the ceremony and reception

Licensed for civil cermemonies

Beautiful barn setting with flexible seating options for your wedding breakfast

Get ready in comfort in the historic, listed farmhouse

Dedicated dance barn, to party the night away

Prices & Key Facts

Prices

Price Band: £ - ££

Typical Price: £11,500

Price Range: £3,500 - £15,000

Hire Price Range: £3,500 - £15,000

Capacity

Guests for a ceremony: 150

Guest Capacity (min/max): 20 / 180

Guests for sit down meal: 30 - 150

Accommodation

Accommodation Rooms: 7

Accommodation Capacity: 16

About Houchins

Houchins is a beautiful, exclusive use, wedding venue for your big day in Essex. With an oak clad barn and 17th century farmhouse set in stunning grounds, it is one of the more original venues in the county.

Licensed for indoor or outdoor ceremonies, you have plenty of choice for hosting your wedding at Houchins. Choose from several uniaque spaces including the marquee, nestled in the stunning wedding garden, the whimsical woodlands, or the oak panelled ceremony room. Each has their own charm and character, allowing you to have the day of your dreams as you always imagined it.

Host your whole day in the comfort of this fabulous site. The barn is the perfect place to hold your wedding breakfast. With its light and airy feel and seating for up to 150 guests, you and your guests can sit down and enjoy each other's company in the elegant space. There is a choice of four different caterers at Houchins, meaning whatever style of food you would like, they can cater to it.

The historic farmhouse is available to accommodate you and your bridal party before the big day. Allowing you to get ready in comfort and style, surrounded by your nearest and dearest.

Located just off the A120 near Coggeshall, your guests won’t have to travel too far to find your venue. And within 15 minutes of Braintree and Colchester, there is plenty of accommodation and transport links for those needing to travel a bit further.

The Details

Type of Ceremony

Civil ceremony licensed

Humanist / Celebrant weddings

Outdoor Ceremonies

Receptions Only

Venue Setting

Countryside

Town

Waterside

Woodland

Remote

Venue Type

Barn

Exclusive use

Country House

Land For Hire

Unique & Unusual

Additional Facilities

Outdoor ceremonies

Guest rooms

Dance floor

Live music permitted

Discos permitted

Wedding coordinator

Onsite car parking

One wedding per day

Licensed bar

Catering Options

Inhouse Caterers

Contact & Location

Houchins

Houchins Wedding Venue, Coggeshall, Coggeshall, Colchester, CO6 1RT, Essex, United Kingdom

FAQs

Yes

Yes we are

Yes - we have a beautiful marquee which seats 150 comfortably

Yes we do

We ask that you choose from one of our four local, excellent caterers

Access to the venue is from 10am

Last dance and drinks is around 11.15-11.30 with carriages gone by midnight. Although we can apply for a limited number of late licenses

Within reason there are no restrictions

No

Yes, real flower petals only

Yes

Yes there is - our Honeymoon Lodge

There is a listed farmhouse sleeping 14 guests

There are several hotels and pubs locally

Our Sustainability Commitments

An Eco-Friendly Venue Houchins is an eco-friendly, family run venue. We really believe in helping the planet where we can and hope that you will be pleased to know that when you book Houchins you are choosing a venue that acts positively to reduce the impact of wedding celebrations on the environment. Later this year we will be planting a new wild flower meadow behind the house to encourage pollinators (bees) and we have an on-going programme to plant indigenous, native trees and hedgerows across our farm. Planting is a great way to combat climate change and has benefits for people, wildlife and the environment. It helps increase bio-diversity, provide shelter, prevent soil erosion, reduce flooding and much more. In addition to our planting we have made a few other changes around the venue and house to make us more sustainable and ask all our couples to consider what they can do to reduce their weddings’ environmental impact where possible? Recent initiatives to improve our green credentials include: Replacing the old gents toilets with water-less urinals Recycling all our waste (in conjunction with CPH) Encouraging our couples to bring less packaging to the venue where possible Replacing electric lights with LED/low voltage throughout the venue Removing single use toiletries in the house Encouraging our recommended caterers to source ‘locally’ as much as possible Our biggest single environmental initiative has been to heat the venue using a ‘water source heat pump’ meaning that the heating of the venue is almost completely carbon neutral. If we all make a few changes we can start to do our bit to help the environment recover and ensure a sound future for future generations… Small steps all make a difference, have you considered… Using recycled stationary or digital invitations Asking your caterer to use local produce where possible to reduce food miles Buying an organic dress! Or better still hiring a pre-loved dress!!

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