The Garden Rooms at Tennants is the UKs largest multipurpose venue for weddings, events & exhibitions
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Set in the heart of Wensleydale, The Garden Rooms at Tennants offer an experience like no other. Steeped in history, art and culture, this beautiful venue will feature something for everyone, from versatile space to hire for up to 500 guests, to a variety of fascinating exhibitions and displays throughout the year - including an exclusive first sight of rare items coming up in Specialist and Fine Art Sales.
20/08/2025
Thinking about coming to our Murder Mystery? 🔍 You don't need a big group to take part! Whether you are flying solo or just a duo, smaller parties are very welcome and will be seated with fellow detectives. Share theories, swap clues and work together to catch the culprit. 🩸
📅 Saturday 6th September
🕖Arrival from 7pm, seated 7.30pm, approx. finish 11pm
🎟️ Bookings of 6 or more £36.00pp / Bookings of less than 6 £39.00pp
🍴To include 3-course dinner
16/08/2025
The Journey of the Cocoa Bean - Talk & Tasting 🍫
Indulge in a captivating talk and tasting with former royal pastry chef Kathryn Cuthbertson. From creating menus for state banquets to founding her own business, Kathryn's career is nothing short of extraordinary.
You will learn the journey your bar of chocolate takes from harvest to production, focusing on the four main varieties - dark, milk, white, and ruby chocolate. Kathryn will have plenty of her own stories to share from her 32 years of knowledge and experience!
If you're not too full from all the chocolate you'll be sampling, you will be treated to a delicious 2-course lunch from our talented kitchen team.
Our Vivienne Westwood themed Afternoon Teas are proving very popular this week, in line with the outstanding single owner sale consisting of over 300 garments up for auction this Friday. Enjoy a bold and stylish menu including ‘Crimson Kiss’ beetroot hummus sandwich on charcoal bread, ‘Rebel Yolk’ devilled egg, ‘Plaid to the Bone’ battenburg and plenty more treats inspired by the Dame herself! Available for a limited time only - until this Saturday 16th.
08/08/2025
Step into the high-society world of fine art - and cold blooded murder. 🩸
We are recruiting you to help solve the case at the Haydn Seek Museum. The museum are hosting an exclusive preview evening, when the caretaker's body is discovered in the space where a priceless painting was once hung.
Join us for an interactive evening, here at the museum on the evening of Saturday 6th September, where your fellow patrons may not be who they seem...
🎟️ Tickets from £36pp to include three-course dinner and immersive mystery experience
There's been a robbery and priceless paintings have disappeared from the Haydn Seek Museum. Worse still there's a body lying underneath where one of the paintings should be. Surely the sudden death must be linked to the robbery or is it?
06/08/2025
To celebrate our upcoming Vivienne Westwood single-owner sale, we are delighted to be serving a bold and stylish afternoon tea, inspired by the Dame herself! Served Monday 11th - Saturday 16th August, booking essential.
30/07/2025
While summer is still in full swing, we’re already putting together an exciting programme of festive highlights for later in the year. From sparkling concerts and creative workshops to festive dining and elegant celebrations, The Garden Rooms will have plenty in store to make the lead-up to Christmas extra special. If you’re starting to think ahead, it’s never too early to plan something wonderful…
25/07/2025
Although we are sad to see the back of our summer tapas, this has made way for some new exciting additions to our lunchtime Bistro menu!
Available in the Bistro Mondays-Saturdays, 12noon-4pm
22/07/2025
Two exciting auction highlights will be sold at Tennants on Wednesday 23rd July as part of our Toys & Models, Sporting & Fishing Sale.
A Morph promotional model from Aardman Animation dated Sept 1998 - Est. £100-£150 (plus buyer's premium).
Tommy Cooper's Magic Robe, worn by the comedy legend for his final performance on 15th April 1984, with an estimate of £4,000-6,000 (plus buyer’s premium).
Catch all the action from the saleroom at 10.30am on Wednesday, either in our saleroom or watch from the Café with a proper Yorkshire breakfast and a pot of tea!
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Our Story
The Garden Rooms At Tennants is the UK’s largest multi-purpose Auction House dedicated to auctions, weddings, conferences, events and exhibitions. Purpose designed and built and open since 2015, The Garden Rooms is a stunning and unique extension to Tennants Auctioneers, the largest saleroom in Europe. It’s museum quality galleries and exhibitions showcase fascinating, intriguing and ever changing collections and items in forthcoming sales, many of which are on public view for the first and only time.
In addition to weddings and conferences, The Garden Rooms hosts a full annual programme of events with something for everyone – from musical concerts, talks and lectures, to family films and of course more than 80 fascinating and fast moving auctions in the adjacent salerooms.
The Garden Rooms is a breath taking experience that attracts for more than half a million visitors every year. With five distinct venue spaces seating up to 640 people for weddings and events, a bar, bistro and café and two floors of gallery and exhibition space, The Garden Rooms delivers a truly memorable experience for all those that visit; whether for a wedding, conference, lunch in the restaurant or just to relax and browse the free to enter galleries and exhibitions.
Tennants is a family run business, now in its fourth generation. Chairman Rodney, wife Lesley and their three daughters Caroline, Alison and Jane, along with the Company Directors, have imagined The Garden Rooms as the region’s destination of choice for exhibitions, concerts, events, conference and weddings in North Yorkshire. The ambience is one of elegant sophistication; combining Tennants auctions with great food, the arts and education.
Links with Education and The Arts
Tennants works with a wide variety of educational and cultural bodies including schools, universities and museums. We often host visiting exhibitions from museums; past collaborations have included displaying works from The Bowes Museum, a selling exhibition of paintings by Norman Cornish and a programme of events celebrating Mouseman furniture. If you are interested in finding out more about our work in this area, please contact Harriet Hunter Smart. Email [email protected]
