A Grade ll listed house with extensive landscaped gardens, gifted for the use and enjoyment of the people by Henry Charles 'Inky' Stephens of the Stephens' Ink Company.

Events - all proceeds go towards keeping the Gardens open for all to enjoy

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Snowdrop Sunday

Sun 9th Feb

13.00 - 15.30

Feel the rustle of Spring by visiting the Bothy Gardens and its display of  wonderful  Snowdrops

 

 

Free event

Sunday Lunch in the House

Sun 16th Feb

Sunday is lunch served in the house from 12:00 to 14:30.

Booking for lunch is essential please email info@stephenshouseandgardens.com  giving number of guests and time required and a contact phone number

or call 020 8346 7812, option 1,

Imagining the Landscape Workshop

Sun 16th Feb

13.00 - 16.00

Join visual artist Rebekah Dean on a walking and drawing workshop that aims to conjure the imagination.

This workshop uses memory and sensory techniques to evoke images from the inner landscape. We will be walking and photographing the Gardens and creating mixed media compositions and drawings from our experiences.

All materials provided, please bring an apron.

£25.00

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Sunday Lunch in the House

Sun 9th Mar

Lunch served in the house from 12:00 to 14:30.

Booking for lunch is essential please email info@stephenshouseandgardens.com giving number of guests and time required and a contact phone number

or call 020 8346 7812, option 1,

Spring Fair

Sun 23rd Mar

10.30 - 17.00

Finchley Women's Institute present their Spring Fair

Over 40 Stalls, offering an exciting variety of  gifts and treats, created by local artisans at affordable prices.

Free admission

Mother’s Day High Tea

Sun 30th Mar

Treat Mum to a traditional High Tea Served in the historic rooms of the Main House

Choose your time slot at 15.00 or 15.30. 

Follow the link above to see the menu.

Please contact 

catering@stephenshouseandgardens.com if you have any dietary requirements. Vegetarian and Vegan options are available

£29 per person, Children Under 10 years £16.50

Booking Essential

 

 

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Hop to it - Easter Trail

Sun 6th Apr

13.00 - 15.00

Hop-on down to the Gardens for our egg-citing Easter Trail. 

Follow the clues and claim your prize 

You can start your trail anytime from 13.00 to 14.30

£5.00 per map/prize. Booking essential

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The Private World of Spike Milligan

Sun, 13 Apr,  11th May, 15th Jun. 

Spike's daughters Jane and Sile take you on a highly personal journey into Spike's life, work and mind through his unseen archive 

Small groups. Multiple slots - booking essential.  Not suitable for children

Tickets £15.00

 

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St George’s Day Dinner

Wed 23rd Apr

19.00

Join us for an English themed evening including Roast Beef and Yorkshires 

(Vegetarian options available) 

Tickets £28  Members £25,  3 courses all inclusive 

Over 18's only. Booking essential

Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements catering@stephenshouseandgardens.com

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VE Day in the Gardens

Sun 4th May

Did you know that thousands of people came to the Gardens to celebrate Victory in 1945?

Come along  Sunday 4th May - and help us recreate this photo at 18.00 (Gardens open until 20.00)

Do you recognise anyone in the photo?  Get in touch and let us know

 

A Midsummer Nights Dream

Sun 22nd Jun

15.00

Out Door Theatre in The Bothy Gardens

Shakespeare’s classic comedy of love and intrigue, magic and mayhem, is brought to life by family favourites Quantum Theatre in their wonderfully funny and exuberant production.

Set on that most dangerous of nights when fairies are abroad and nothing is as it seems four young, unsuspecting, lovers become entangled in their magical affray and soon no mortals are safe in those bewitched and bewitching woods outside Athens….

“I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was…”

Tickets £18.00,  under 16 yrs £14.00

 

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Alice Through the Looking Glass

Sun 6th Jul

15.00

Outdoor Theatre in the Bothy Gardens

Follow Alice’s fantastical adventures in the strange world she enters through the mirror above her drawing-room fireplace.

Here the world is laid out in the form of a giant chess board and before long Alice finds herself entering the game as a white pawn.

Quantum Theatre charts the fabulous, wonderful and rather perplexing world created by the great Lewis Carroll : truly a show for all the family.

Tickets £16, Under 16yrs 12.00

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Sense and Sensibility

Sat 26th Jul

15.00

Celebrate Jane Austin's 250th Birthday - with this outdoor production in the Bothy Gardens

Elinor Dashwood has a lot of good Sense. Her sister Marianne Dashwood has an excess of Sensibility. Together they make a snappy title for Jane Austen’s classic novel of scandals, scoundrels and severely sprained ankles.

This funny, fast-paced and faithful adaptation from the critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company features live music, audience interaction, romance and heartbreak. 

Tickets £18.00,  under 16 yrs £14.00

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