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Houchins

Colchester, Essex5.0 · 106 reviewsWebsite

Exclusively yours, Houchins is a unique barn venue where heritage is made modern. Including on site stylish grade 2* listed farmhouse accommodation. Located just 1 hour from London in north Essex, just 1 mile east of Coggeshall. The venue has is family owned with an award-winning team to make sure your day runs exactly to plan. Facilities and Capacity On your special day, Houchins belongs to you.

Venue type
Historic
Capacity
6–150 guests (150 seated)
Ceremony licence
Celebration only

About Houchins

Exclusively yours, Houchins is a unique barn venue where heritage is made modern. Including on site stylish grade 2* listed farmhouse accommodation. Located just 1 hour from London in north Essex, just 1 mile east of Coggeshall. The venue has is family owned with an award-winning team to make sure your day runs exactly to plan. Facilities and Capacity On your special day, Houchins belongs to you. Immerse yourselves in romance & elegance while the dedicated team bring your dreams to life. Understanding that every couple is unique, the venue can create a classic celebration, a contemporary affair or a mix of the two for up to 180 guests! Choose from a number of ceremony areas: an elegant marquee in the landscaped wedding garden, an intimate oak-pannelled drawing room, a serene woodland ceremony space or one of the gorgeous open air spaces nestled within the grounds. The stylish self-catering farmhouse sleeps 14, and the Honeymoon Lodge is the perfect place to relax and spend your first night as a married couple. Houchins even provides a complimentary continental breakfast for the morning after. Services Offered Houchins is available for exclusive use. Weddings include online planning tools, a team of wedding coordinators to guide and assist you throughout the planning process, a dedicated wedding manager to ensure everything runs smoothly on the big day, decorative lighting, and much more.Go to the website: Houchins.co.uk to book a viewing and request a brochure.

Facilities, accommodation and access

  • Wedding coordinator
  • Accessible facilities
  • Corkage option
  • DJ facilities
  • Live band facilities
  • Overnight accommodation for wedding couple
  • Exclusive use
  • Evening reception facilities
  • Alcohol licence
  • In-house catering
  • Car parking
  • Seated meal facilities

The venue in photographs

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Finding us

Houchins, Colchester, Essex, CO6 1RT, England

Reviews

5.0 average from 106 reviews

Imported

We don't know where to start, from the moment we came in for our first viewing we knew Houchins was the venue for us, classically beautiful, intimate yet so spacious, rustic but so modern with amazing grounds. The houchins team were amazing, super organised, professional, kind and most of all fun.…

Joanna · 2024-11-27

Imported

We had our wedding at Houchins on 12th July 2025 and had the most amazing day. Couldn't recommend the venue more, the service beforehand was brilliant, very responsive and organised and helpful. We were lucky to have a sunny day and the venue looked stunning, a great mix of outdoor areas each with…

Peter · 2025-07-14

Imported

The team at Houchins were absolutely wonderful, from our very first viewing all the way through to our wedding day. The venue’s flexibility made it possible for us to celebrate over two incredible days: a lovely garden party in the beautiful house the day before, followed by our wedding i

Sophie · 2025-11-12

Imported

Everyone loves the venue including our suppliers! Everything is well thought out and makes for ease of use in the space. The layout is simple, but effective so your guests don’t get lost moving from space to space. It is incredibly intentional and just flows beautifully. It is a perfect mix of…

Rebecca · 2025-10-16

Imported

We knew this was the venue we wanted to get married at as soon as we visited Houchins on one of their open days. From that moment on they made us feel so important and couldn't have done more for us. We had several meetings to discuss plans and lots of emails back a

Cheryl · 2025-11-13

Imported

I am glad we booked this place for our wedding. Everyone complementing how beautiful our venue is. We had 65 guest and it is the right size for that number of people. Solemn, and so romantic. The staff are very helpful and they guide us all throughout. The farmhouse is big enough for 14 people.…

Katrina · 2025-10-21

Imported

Zero regrets on booking Houchins as our wedding venue. From the start the team were super accomodating, nothing was too much trouble and the venue is effortlessly beautiful. Thankfully we were blessed with beautiful weather on our

Kate · 2025-06-06

Imported

I found this venue through Hitched because they allow fire pits and candles. so we viewed and fell in love with it. I did all the booking etc and communicated through email and telephone. I had some odd requests, like food being delivered in the week beforehand that i wanted, hand made chocolates…

Badgers · 2025-11-13

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