Request an introduction

The House

The Georgian house at the head of the eighteenth was built in 1784 and has been the clubhouse since 1897. Members lunch, stay and read here, and bring their guests.

The Hall at Averleigh: a stone floor, the cantilevered staircase, a long-case clock and white flowers on the round table beneath the tall window

The Long Room

It runs the length of the garden front, eleven sash windows above the eighteenth green. Lunch is served every day of the year but Christmas, dinner on Friday and Saturday.

Breakfast from 7, lunch from 12

  • Breakfast7 to 10
  • Lunch12 to 2.30
  • The Terrace11 to 7

The menus

Menus change with the season and the kitchen garden. Tell your waiter about any allergy; the kitchen will cook around it.

Daily, 12 to 2.30

To begin

  • Potted Rye Bay shrimps, brown toast£14
  • Soup of the day, House bread£9
  • Asparagus, soft egg, brown butter (in season)£15

From the kitchen

  • Roast rib of Sussex beef, Yorkshire pudding£32
  • Dover sole, brown butter, capers£44
  • Fish pie, buttered peas£26
  • Club sandwich, the House way£18

Puddings

  • Treacle tart, clotted cream£11
  • Bread and butter pudding£10
  • Ices from the dairy at Ticehurst£8

Sunday lunch is the same kitchen, with the rib carved at the table.

Friday and Saturday, 7 to 9.30

To begin

  • Wild mushroom tart, aged Comté£16
  • Cured sea trout, cucumber, dill£17
  • Ham hock terrine, piccalilli£14

Main courses

  • Saddle of South Downs lamb, anchovy£38
  • Turbot, mussels, champagne sauce£46
  • Chateaubriand for two, béarnaise£92
  • Roast partridge, bread sauce (in season)£36

To finish

  • Chocolate tart, crème fraîche£12
  • Sussex pond pudding£12
  • Three Wealden cheeses, oatcakes£16

Jackets for gentlemen in the Long Room after 6.

May to September, 11 to 7

Through the day

  • Halfway sausage roll, English mustard£7
  • Smoked salmon on rye, lemon£14
  • Crab and brown shrimp sandwich£16
  • Ploughman’s, Wealden cheddar£15

To drink

  • Averleigh summer cup, by the jug£28
  • English sparkling, by the glass£14
  • Elderflower pressé, from the House£5

Served on the terrace above the eighteenth green, weather allowing.

Eight rooms for the night

Members and their guests stay in the House before an early round or after a long dinner. A member books the room; the guest is made welcome.

A Park room: a made bed with a wool throw, two armchairs by a tall sash window and a view across the park
A Park room, on the garden front
Check in
From 3pm
Check out
By 11am
Rates
Per room, per night, with breakfast
Early tee times
Golfers’ breakfast from 6.30 at weekends
Reserve a room

Or telephone the House office on 01632 960 733, daily from 9 to 5.

On the first floor of the garden front, the two largest bedrooms look straight down the eighteenth fairway to the lime avenue. Each has a king-size bed, a bath beneath the window and a fire laid in winter.

Bed
King-size
Bathroom
Bath and shower
Floor
First, garden front
Reserve a Park room

On the east side above the walled garden, where the mornings are quiet and the light comes early. Two are made up with twin beds that can be joined.

Bed
King-size or twin
Bathroom
Shower, two with baths
Floor
First and second, east side
Reserve a Garden room

Across the yard in the old stable block, each with its own front door, a minute from the changing rooms and the first tee. The golfers’ choice for an early start.

Bed
King-size or twin
Bathroom
Walk-in shower
Floor
Ground, own entrance
Reserve a Stable room

The Library and the rest

The House is run for members who come to play golf and stay for the afternoon. A few rooms, kept the way members like them.

The Library
Newspapers, the club’s minute books since 1897 and the best chairs in the House. It is a quiet room: no telephones, and no business papers on the table.
The Card Room
Bridge on Tuesday afternoons and backgammon most evenings. Members may reserve the table through the House office.
The Hall
Where members meet before a round, and the only place indoors where a telephone call is taken.
The changing rooms
Lockers for every member, showers, a shoe-cleaning bench by the door and a drying room that has everything dry by the time lunch is over.

Dress in the House

By day
Smart casual throughout the House. Golf clothes are welcome everywhere but the Library.
The Long Room after 6
Jackets for gentlemen. Ties are not required.
Denim
Welcome by day. Not in the Long Room or on the terrace at dinner.
Telephones
On silent in the House, and taken in the hall or outside.

Hours

  • CourseFirst light to dusk
  • Secretary’s officeMonday to Friday, 8.30 to 5
  • BreakfastDaily from 7, from 6.30 at weekends
  • Lunch in the Long RoomDaily, 12 to 2.30, Sunday until 3
  • DinnerFriday and Saturday, 7 to 9.30
  • The House officeDaily, 9 to 5

Private dining in the House

Members may take a room for a lunch, a dinner or a celebration of their own. The kitchen writes the menu with you.

The Orangery laid for a private lunch: one long table in white linen between citrus trees, tall arched windows onto the parkThe Library by firelight: leather armchairs, a tray of coffee and framed course plans beside a tall sash windowThe Long Room laid with round tables in white linen beneath tall sash windows onto the park

Lunch or dinner, any day

Stone floors, citrus trees in tubs and tall doors onto the south lawn. One long table for twenty-four, or rounds for a summer lunch that spills outside.

Enquire about the Orangery

Dinner, Monday to Saturday

The panelled room off the hall, with the fire lit and the club’s old course plans on the walls. A single table for ten, served by one waiter all evening.

Enquire about the Library

Sunday evenings, from 6

For members’ celebrations: a birthday, an anniversary, a wedding party after the church at Wadhurst. The whole room, laid as you would like it, on Sunday evenings once lunch has cleared.

Enquire about the Long Room

Make an enquiry

Tell the House team the room, the date and roughly how many. They will come back with menus, wines and a quotation; nothing is held until you have agreed them.

The House officehouse@averleigh.co.ukOr telephone 01632 960 733

The Long Room is free for parties on Sunday evenings.

Choose a room to see how many it seats.

Timings, dietary needs, wine, flowers. A line or two is plenty.

The House team replies within two working days.

Built by Visuvate