The Old Barn - Bradford

We attended an evening wedding reception at The Old Barn on a lovely sunny Friday ahead of the bank holiday weekend. The dance floor is situated upstairs. I don’t know how many people this room holds but gosh it was hot and the bar so small to accommodate the number of people wanting serving. The music was also far too loud for such a small space as you couldn’t hear anyone talking. It looks beautiful however with the fairy lights but we had to go to the lower floor after about half an hour as it was just too warm and noisy. The bar downstairs is a bit more roomy. There is outdoor sitting space at the back but I was disappointed that this consists of just two pub type bench tables. The space is crying out for nice tables and chairs or maybe some couches, umbrellas and nice planters and things. Food was bacon or sausage sandwiches or a vegan option. The sausage sandwiches were ok and served a purpose. We had a great time and the venue could be amazing with a few tweaks

My daughter held her baby shower here. Absolutely beautiful. The venue is perfect and so pretty. Very roomy and lots of parking. The staff were more than helpful. The food, far surpassed an afternoon tea. Soup, chilli, bruschetta, fresh salmon..... wonderful. We had some dietary requirements cheese free, nut allergy and vegan and they were provided for perfectly. We had to add one extra person a few days before and they went out of their way to oblige. I would definitely recommend holding your event here.

Great Venue, in a lovely little village where they used to film emmerdale Farm, the Staff was Great, lovely and friendly, and more importantly the Food was Lovely one of the best afternoon teas I have had, with hot food as well as sandwiches , and the Barn itself is a lovely place, would highly recommend it you won’t be disappointed

Just been to a wedding at this venue, what a lovely day was had by everyone. felt very intimate, and we had the place to ourselves, food nice, and everything just rang very smoothly.

Where do I start? We visited the venue in December 2021 to view for our wedding, Diane greeted us and showed us around, we then decided to look at dates as we were happy with the venue, she had a summer date for 2022 available for us, we agreed to this date provisionally. We then sat down and went through the plan of the day, including the time of the ceremony, food etc, here is where Diane decided it was her wedding and not ours, as we were a young couple, she seemed intent on pressuring us to change the time of our ceremony so we would have to pay for more food which we didn’t want, when we explained this to Diane, she went around 100 bends and told us that we have to have 2 courses, we decided on canapés and bbq dinner, we then asked Diane to repeat the whole days process while we noted it down as she is a bit ditzy, this is where she slyly didn’t mention she’d kept the sandwiches in at the end of the day baring in mind our ceremony wasn’t until 3:30pm so it would just be food food food for our guests due to the evening being much shorter, so she only mentioned the canapés and the bbq dinner, we then told Diane to send it all in an email including the figures. A couple of days later, we got the figures on the email and lo and behold Diane had added sandwiches which we implicitly implied that we didn’t want as we had decided on canapés and a bbq dinner, as these were the 2 courses selected, we responded via email asking if this was a mistake, this was followed by the most unprofessional call… We received a call from Diane, which was quite aggressive from such a meek woman, she was speaking to my partner who was telling her continuously that we didn’t want the sandwiches as they wouldn’t fit in with the day and nobody would want them, Diane at this point could have retraced and said, “I completely understand, it’s your wedding, I’ll remove them for you, sorry for the misunderstanding”, however, she dug herself a deeper hole, telling us that the terms and conditions state you must have two courses when previously telling us canapés and a bbq dinner count as 2 courses, my partner handed myself the phone as she was very upset, I spoke to Diane telling her that my guests wouldn’t like sandwiches directly after having a bbq dinner and they would just want to use the dancefloor, Diane immediately responded with anger, “how would you know what your guests would want, you don’t know what people want and what they don’t want”, regardless of the fact that it’s my wedding, speaking to a potential customer like this is off putting and the best bit to top all this off, she eventually gave up fighting and said, “yes no problem I’ll take the sandwiches off”, so after all of this fighting and aggressiveness to a customer she could have done this before all the hassle she gave us. I understand it’s covid and business are trying to make as much money as possible, but Diane was a horrible host, I’m glad she didn’t end up in charge of planning my wedding as she would have eventually cocked it up, a wedding is a good time, not stressing about what Diane is going to force down our throats next time we speak to her, she made it really hard to communicate, as when we didn’t like something, she made it sound as though it was the end of the world and we must have this. Diane if you can see this, please fix up your behaviour and stop forcing or pressure selling, it is not a sales job, you have an important job of helping people organise their wedding days which is enough stress as it is without your aggressive pushy sales tactics.