Tudor party venue in Suffolk

Tudor feasts & dressing up

Whilst in the Tudor barn, for something a bit different consider an evening of Tudor fun with a Tudor banquet.

• Dress up Tudor - borrow our various Tudor costumes. As many of these are warm, woollen garments, this is best done in the winter months - you might overheat in the summer!

• Put on a Tudor feast – lay up the banquet tables with wooden platters, pewter spoons and glazed pottery and enjoy a huge meal

• Get a chef in to cook, deliver or serve and wash up – or do your own meal and we can suggest menus. Haunches of venison, pheasant pie, spinach flans, vegetable potage, Pippin pie, gooseberry cake ... with cider and ale.

• Try our Tudor quiz – adapt it to suit your group. For hens, we have a special Tudor hen quiz!

• Dance - borrow our Tudor music and challenge different teams to create and lead on a dance – or get a tutor in to teach you

Tudor school residential trips

Put on your Tudor clothes, step back in time and try out some things that Tudor peasants – and a few wealthy ones – did on the farm in the late 1500s. Try the following activities in season:

• Archaeology - field walking and classifying artefacts

• Act out the steps of the ancient wool and cloth industry - and visit Lavenham for the Town Trail

• Process and feast on game and Tudor vegetable garden produce

• Look after Tudor poultry and livestock

• Celebrate Tudor festivals - decorate the plough, wassail the fruit trees

• Date a Tudor landscape - hedges, ponds

• Make pomanders and herbal potions

• Put on a play, dance and sing Tudor!

And whilst you’re here visit the amazing Kentwell Hall Tudor re-enactment – spend a day with re-enactors where they really do it properly!