Just choose from our list of talented local chefs and liaise directly with them and they will take care of everything.
They will offer you a variety of menus for your big house party or corporate event from a simple, hearty, two course, self-service meal, to a more formal, fully served and cleared dinner. All are made from the best available local produce wherever possible.
If you have a specific caterer that you would like to use, they would just need to visit the house and show us the necessary insurances.
Bespoke dinner parties and events using fantastic local produce are a speciality for Milkshed Catering.
Their dinner party service is perfect for special birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings – both chefs and waiting staff are highly experienced and will go the extra mile to ensure you fully relax and enjoy your celebration.
Menus are agreed in advance from their sample menu suggestions, or you can request something more bespoke involving your favourite ingredients.
Fed and Pickled offer a variety of food packages. We work towards bringing a restaurant quality service to you in your holiday home. From relaxed sharing boards to an in house chef and table service. Packages offered include an private chef and server, prepared and delivered food packages or small plates and sharing menus. We also offer a personalised food and beverage expert who can supply and pair wines to your menu.
All menus are bespoke to your party; using seasonal, local and independent suppliers where possible.
Dining Experiences that are Prepared, Cooked & Served Exclusively for You.
We craft dining experiences that are tailor made for you & your close ones. No matter the occasion, we will take the time to understand the experience you desire. Co-founders & couple, Ben & Isabella are passionate to source the absolute best, locally produced food before cooking it to perfection.
Here at “13”, we go above & beyond so you can give you something unique & truly memorable.
Linda at Linda’s Food Thyme is a professionally qualified chef who spent several years cooking in award winning restaurants in London. She certainly has a flair for catering, with her own signature style which reflects her international roots and cosmopolitan background in fine dining. Menus are creative and showcase the best of fresh ingredients.
You can try Linda’s exquisite cuisine by booking her to come and cook for private dining in your holiday house, or you can use her convenient delivery service and have delicious home cooked meals delivered to your door.
Bring the authentic taste of Thailand to your house party. Choose from a buffet style banquet or a fully served and cleared away seated banquet, with food prepared at the house.
Jules & Steve Horrell have a tremendous pedigree of culinary excellence from At the Chapel, Babington House and Roth Bar & Grill in Bruton. They specialise in micro dining experiences and can now offer our guests an evening to enjoy their excellence at our houses in Somerset. Using as many seasonal ingredients as possible from their farm and those of carefully selected suppliers, their ethos is the simple celebration of food and exceptional hospitality.
Sticky Date has been catering in Somerset for over 20 years using as much local produce as possible. Our menus cover all budgets and dietary requirements from buffets to vintage high teas to fine dining experiences. We will come in, set the table, serve your meal and clear away discreetly! We can also provide a delivered 2 course supper.
Available via the home owner
THE BREAKFAST CHEF Contact us,The Big House Co: 01823 662673 to check availability.
Full English breakfast cooked, served & cleared away for you.
Bacon, Sausage, Tomato, Beans, Mushrooms, Black Pudding, Egg
Toast, Jam, Marmalade
Selection of Fruit Juices
Tea and Coffee
Cost pp: From £20.00
Minimum No: 15
DELIVERED 2 COURSE SUPPERContact us, The Big House Co: 01823 662673 for menus & more information
Take the pressure off and give everyone a real welcome break on their arrival, a chance to relax enjoy a delicious real home-made meal together and not worry about shopping or cooking, allowing for varying arrival times or the night before you depart.
Pre prepared supper delivered to the house, all you need to do is warm through and enjoy!
Ask The Big House Co for our menus.
Choose from 2 Mains and 2 Puddings for your whole group
Cost pp: From £21.50
Minimum No: 15
HANDMADE PIZZASContact us, The Big House Co: 01823 662673 for menus & more information
Let the oven come to you! Freshly prepared at the house.
All of our pizzas are made with our home made, hand stretched dough and our homemade sauce, they are then topped with only the finest ingredients and baked to perfection in our wood fired oven.
You choose 3 or 4 options for your group. Minimum 25 Pizzas: Prices start from £525 for 3 options
Additional Pizzas: £15pp Salads also available if required at an additional cost
There are some great pubs too…
We can also provide fabulous walking routes which will include a pub stop somewhere along the way – just ask us for more information.
Activities for Somerset Manor
We can arrange activities to suit any kind of event or party at Somerset Manor. We have spent time researching and finding an excellent range of suppliers to provide the best experiences for you.
We can bring activities to the house or book you a whole host of things to do nearby.
For days out and local attractions explore the local links on this page. You will also find local information files at the Manor.
Clay Pigeon Shooting, Archery & Pistol shooting (Clays not available on site)
If you want fun and laughter then look no further!
The evening can be adapted to suit your group…include names and places that are special to you.
Get your ideas ready….there’s going to be a murder.
Create the glamour and mystique of a night at the casino.
2 Deluxe, full size gaming tables, mahogany roulette wheel and genuine casino chips. The croupiers ensure the highest quality casino event for you and you guests. Good Luck!!
From: £685 per group.
Somerset Cider Tour at Sheppy’s
With your knowledgable guide, visit the orchards, press house, vat house, museum and finish with a guided tasting. Tour last 1.5 hours. Min 15 guests for private tour, or book onto a public tour.
During your exclusive gin tasting, you will be presented with six gins specially selected for their quality and provenance. You’ll taste each gin neat before mixing and enjoying 6 perfectly served G&Ts with an array of garnishes as suggested by the distiller.
What better way to spend an evening with family, friends or colleagues.
Cocktails & Games Masterclass for Birthdays, Anniversaries, Corporates, Hens & Stags. Whatever the occasion, we supply everything you need from the cocktail equipment, alcohol & ingredients, glassware & even the ice.
Fun themed dance class
Sashay Dance specialise in fun themed dance classes for hen parties, birthdays, team building or just for fun. They have 20 groovy themes to choose from including Barbie, Salsa, The Greatest Showman and Line Dancing. They can come to you at your accommodation, all their classes are lots of fun, 2 left feet friendly and suitable for all.
Like your Georgian Manor with a twist? Old meets new, the best of both worlds at Somerset Manor.
Pass through the electric gates at the entrance of the drive and there she is – traditional honey coloured, with 2 big stone lions guarding the door. Inside the oohs and aahs will start.
Somerset Manor was last modified: February 3rd, 2025 by Pam Knight
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Somerset Manor is a grand, impressive, characterful house that feels like home very quickly and a special holiday house in Taunton, Somerset. It’s beautiful, stylish and a great place to enjoy having fun with your favourite people.
There’s plenty to do outside and in, so whatever the weather, it will be a memorable stay. It’s a house to be together in, play and laugh, but there’s space to quietly re-charge, read a book, or just contemplate how great life is.
Social spaces
The dining room has elegant floor to ceiling sash windows, throwing plenty of natural light into the room. A large table (seating 20/26) for gathering your group around, beneath the grand chandelier that sets the scene for a special dinner party. Match the elegance by dressing up in your finery – go Gatsby for the weekend.
Across the hall from the dining room, the light filled drawing room has a baby grand piano, sofas, a large open fire for a cosy winters afternoon indoors. It’s a beautiful room.
The mellow library has beautiful panelling and there’s a large stone fireplace to light if you want to add to the atmosphere, choose a book from the shelves and curl up on a sofa. There is also a wide screen tv and an excellent Denon sound system.
Central in the house is the kitchen, with an Aga (electric) giving a proper country house feel, 2 eye level ovens and an induction hob. With a centre island and very comfy bar stools – anyone cooking is going to have an audience! A pantry and a breakfast kitchen lead off the main kitchen, giving you extra storage and preparation space. There is a butlers kitchen (towards the games room), with an eye level, built in oven and induction hob, if you need even more cooking space.
Bedrooms
Up the grand staircase, past the attractive stained glass window, admire the original, ornate light-well that cascades natural light into the hall, there are 9 fabulous bedrooms. All in calming Farrow & Ball colours with crisp bed linen and soft, deep pile carpet underfoot. The well chosen contemporary furniture and lighting balances in harmony with the traditional features, high ceilings, pretty sash windows and heavy drapes. Many of the bedrooms have views of the gardens and beyond to the rolling Somerset countryside. See our floor plan for bedroom layout.
Additional sleeping accommodation (extra charge) can be provided in the stables flat, with 2 bedrooms, 2 put up beds (in living area) and 1 bathroom. Enough for 6, so you can increase your group size, and still enjoy all the great facilities of the house.
There are 3 en-suites and 3 general bath/shower rooms, all with new high spec fittings throughout. Deep baths for enjoying a soak and invigorating large rainfall showers to wake you up in the morning.
The media room. Welcome to media room heaven. Gaming chairs and sofas, Denon sound system and projector system onto the facing wall. A perfect teenage hang-out. If you can’t find them, this is where they will be.
The gym. The lounge lizards among us are skeptical that this is a fun space, but we are assured that it counts. It’s very well equipped with a rowing machine, treadmill, exercise bike, punchbag and weights.
Further long the passage, to the karaoke bar where you can sing your heart out (slightly low beams, adorned with fairy lights), Past the funky signage, to the games room, a description that doesn’t do it justice! It’s a fantastic, double height space with oodles of character, a basketball hoop, darts, table tennis and plenty of room for lots of fun. Any age group is going to love this space.
All play and no work…just in case you have to, the study is quietly located towards the back of the house, with a workspace that might not make it feel like work?
Outside
There are 28 acres of grounds & gardens and one of the loveliest features is the fairytale tree house, newly re-built and promising hours of fun. Across the main lawn from the house is the outdoor pool (seasonal) with sun loungers and when relaxing gets too tiring, cross the lawn to the tennis court and serve a few aces.
By the house there’s more seating on the terrace, where you’re then perfectly positioned by the barbecue and pizza oven to enjoy some evening feasting. It’s a sunny spot to enjoy the views of the garden and through to the orchard. Further beyond, is a full size football pitch with goals.
A few small points..
Prices shown are for 20 guests. The Stables (up to 6 extra) is £700 per weekend & £1,200 for a week.
The swimming pool has partial low fencing and a hedge around it. Children & animals should always be supervised.
While playing on the tree house & slide children should be supervised.
Hidden away by the main gates is a lodge (100m from the house), where a husband & wife couple live, who show you in to the house & explain how things work.
Up to two dogs are welcome (£15 per dog, p.n.) Enquire for weekly rates.
There is a very slight hum of motorway traffic, in the garden only, please ring for more details, we have been to the house on several occasions.
A small equestrian area on the edge of the grounds. Only the trainer visits them.
The refundable cautionary deposit for this house is from £1,500.
Arrivals from 4pm/Departure by 10am (Monday to Friday) Departure by 4pm (Sunday)
Mature hen & stag groups, please enquire before booking.
We recommend taking out your own personal travel insurance prior to booking.
Sleeps 20/26
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Tennis Court
Dogs Possible
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