Cherkley Court & Gardens
Cherkley Court is the former home of the 1st Lord Beaverbrook,newspaper owner and cabinet minister, spectacularly set in 400 acres of unspoilt Surrey countryside. The gardens offers sitors a tranquil and stunning experience in sixteen acres of landscaped gardens overlooking the Mole Valley. At the garden’s heart lie a series of grand terraces punctuated and flanked by stone stairs and enclosed by balustrade walls. A stunning Italianate garden has been created around the original pool. In addition there is a shell grotto, original pavilions, wild flower meadows, Mediterranean planting and a potager and vegetable garden. The Orangery and terrace provides light lunches, coffees and teas featuring home made cakes. The house itself is used for weddings and events. Six meeting rooms offer unique settings for a wide range of uses from meetings and conferences up to 70, to product launches, formal dinners, drinks receptions or boardroom lunches. Each room has natural daylight with most opening directly on to gardens and wireless broadband available as standard. From the intimacy of the Morning Room seating up to 16 theatre style to the informality of the Drawing Room with space for 22, through to the Orangery with its light and airy ambience and space for 110 cabaret style. Located minutes from both junctions 8 and 9 of the M25, there can be few other venues to rival Cherkley Court’s peaceful tranquillity of formal…
