Conferences
Weddings
About the venue
Bracken Tor House is a great venue for conferences and workshops with accommodation and meeting spaces set in 4 acres of landscaped grounds on the edge of Dartmoor near the A30 at Okehampton. It is very accessible for meetings for participants from the SW Region, given similar travel-time distances from Cornwall or Gloucestershire. The reopened station at Okehampton gives access by Public Transport arriving by train or bus.
The landscaped gardens, with bluebell woods sitting below the open moorland with great views over the town of Okehampton provide a great space for participants to meet and enjoy the opportunities that Dartmoor, with its diverse landscape and culture.
Within the grounds are two: Bracken Tor House was built in Arts & Crafts style in 1908 with oak panelling and leaded windows. Bracken Tor Lodge is a recently converted pumphouse adorned in local granite. Both offer warm reception areas and comfortable accommodation.
The wider grounds offer spaces for camping, campfires and BBQs with the woods and open moorland waiting to be explored. This English countryside location and delightful grounds will offer a beautiful backdrop for your event.
Accommodation and Catering
Two accommodation buildings set in the grounds, with their own car parks, lounge, dining areas and self-catering kitchens. The main house, an Arts and Crafts building from 1908 has 7 bedrooms, each with private bathroom or en-suite. Bracken Tor Lodge has 8 bedrooms ranging from single rooms to 6 bedded bunk rooms. Some rooms have en-suite facilities, whereas others have use of shared facilities. Both Bracken Tor House and the Function room have disabled and baby change facilities.
Catering can be provided to make the day more comfortable with teas/coffees through to buffet lunches and packed lunches if you venture onto the moors.
Conference Venue
The Function Room is situated in the lower part of the gardens and can be hired separately from the House and Lodge. It has a paved terrace with tables looking out over the north Devon countryside so that you can take inspiration from the beautiful sunsets.
At the entrance to the Function Room there is a paved area with landscaped garden borders. This gives a suitable area for meeting and greeting your participants. There is a bar area here and we can offer a covered area o that there is more space for guests in the function room.
The room can be laid out in a variety of ways. Most choose to have round tables set-up for 6 to 10 people (c. 70 people), however, it is also possible to have a Theatre layout (Max 120 people) or a combination of the two.
Projector screens and a Project can be provided if these are ordered in advance.
A minibus shuttle service can be provided from the car park at our other venue in Okehampton, at cost of £50 per hour.
Team Building Exercises
Whilst you may think that Adventure Activities are more suitable for young groups, we have successfully developed other team building activities that have been adapted for corporate clients, including problem solving sessions, less strenuous activity sessions with teambuilding and orienteering,
The function room can be used for brain storming sessions, corporate planning days, strategy planning and a variety of different types of meeting. An activity session tagged on is good at taking people minds away from the exercise to understand team working better, and then come back refreshed to look at the problem again.
