The Scarlet Hen at Norfolk House

The Scarlet Hen at Norfolk House As featured in HELLO! The Sunday Times & Yorkshire Life. Multi-Award winning Yorkshire Boutique Retreat, Exquisite Georgian Mansion House.
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Norfolk House sleeping 10-23 With indoor hot tub spa, games room, cocktail bar & private roof top garden. This beautiful listed period property is an amazing place to stay and celebrate in style. Great road and rail links! Call 07775780997 to book Huddersfield

We’ve been hosting hen parties at Norfolk House since 2016, and around 99% of our bookings are hen parties and girls’ ge...
03/09/2026

We’ve been hosting hen parties at Norfolk House since 2016, and around 99% of our bookings are hen parties and girls’ getaways.

This isn’t a holiday house that happens to accept hens.

It’s a house DESIGNED for them.

Everything we’ve added over the years has been with the bride and her girls in mind — from the indoor hot tub and spa treatment room to the karaoke, party spaces and our soundproofed party room, where you can carry on celebrating into the early hours without worrying about disturbing the neighbours.

And we genuinely LOVE hen parties.

In fact, given the choice between a hen and pretty much any other booking?

We’ll choose the hens. Every time. 😂

We’ve also spent years curating the activities we know actually work.

So whether your bride wants Prosecco, life drawing, cocktails and karaoke…

or yoga, massages, sound baths and a proper Zen Hen…

you can build the weekend around HER.

You could spend the next three months trawling the internet through thousands of houses trying to work out which one will actually work for 20 women…

Or you could read our reviews. 😉

Then you’ll understand why so many brides land on our website and head straight for the BOOK YOUR HEN PARTY button.

Yorkshire hen party. Sleeps up to 25. And yes, we still have a few dates available.

Come and have your hen at our house. ❤️

The Scarlet Hen
Norfolk House
Yorkshire

Possibly a slightly ridiculous thing to post when I’m about to go to Ibiza…and I go twice here every single year!! But I...
02/09/2026

Possibly a slightly ridiculous thing to post when I’m about to go to Ibiza…and I go twice here every single year!!

But I’m saying it anyway.

You do NOT need to get on a plane to have an amazing hen party.

I LOVE Ibiza. ❤️

But when you’re trying to organise 15, 20 or even 25 women, suddenly the flights, luggage, time off work, airport transfers, expensive drinks and “sorry, I just can’t afford it” messages start rolling in…

And your dream hen can very quickly become a logistical NIGHTMARE. 😂

I’m Charlotte and I run The Scarlet Hen at Norfolk House in Yorkshire, where we’ve hosted more than 800 hen parties.

And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this:

The best hen party isn’t the one that costs the most or takes you furthest from home.

It’s the one where your favourite people can actually COME. ❤️

So before I get on that plane and completely undermine my own argument… 😂

YORKSHIRE 10 — IBIZA 0.

👇 Which would YOU choose for your hen?

🇬🇧 YORKSHIRE
☀️ IBIZA

There’s something about the 1st of September.The Bank Holiday is over. The summer holidays are done. The kids are going ...
01/09/2026

There’s something about the 1st of September.

The Bank Holiday is over. The summer holidays are done. The kids are going back to school. The weather changes. You’re digging out your autumn clothes and suddenly somebody mentions Christmas.

And without really realising it, we all go into September reset mode.

It’s a little bit like January.

We start making lists. Setting goals. Getting organised. And all those things we’ve been saying “we’ll sort that after summer…” suddenly need sorting.

Including the HEN DO. 👰🏼‍♀️

This is exactly when we see a huge rush of people sitting down with a notebook, opening the group chat and finally starting to look for their hen party accommodation for next year.

But here’s the bit that might surprise you…

Most of our spring and summer weekends are already SOLD OUT.

So if you’re sitting down this morning with a coffee and a notepad planning a 2027 hen party or big birthday weekend, this is your little nudge not to leave the accommodation until last.

Because while September might feel like the beginning of the planning season…

hundreds of other Maids of Honour are having exactly the same thought.

31/08/2026

Calling all Type A brides who have handed their Maid of Honour the small task of finding a hen party house with the WOW factor… 👀

Firstly, well done for delegating. 😂

Secondly… you might be a tiny bit late to the party.

We’ve almost sold out of our most popular weekends for next year.

BUT…

🙋🏼‍♀️ Hands up who’d have a January hen party?

Because we still have a handful of January 2027 weekends available at Norfolk House in Yorkshire — and I actually think winter might be one of the BEST times to have your hen here.

You literally never need to leave the house.

No taxis 🚕
No freezing outside waiting for an Uber
No traipsing around town in heels
No finding restaurants that’ll take 20+ people
No splitting everyone up

Instead, you’ve got an entire Georgian mansion to yourselves with an indoor hot tub, cocktail bar, karaoke, games room and huge party room — and we can bring the private chef, cocktails, spa treatments, life drawing, yoga and loads more straight to you.

Shut the front door on Friday and you don’t need to open it again until Sunday. 😂

And because January is one of our best-value times to stay…

❄️ Comment a winter emoji below and I’ll DM you our January code so YOUR BRIDE STAYS FOR FREE.

Go on, Maid of Honour. You can take all the credit. 😂

30/08/2026

Hey, I’m Charlotte 👋 and I rent out my own home to complete strangers every single weekend.

Here’s why…

Norfolk House isn’t really a normal house. It’s a huge Georgian mansion in Yorkshire that sleeps up to 25 people — and over the years it’s become home for the weekend to hundreds of hen parties, birthdays and groups of friends.

When guests arrive, we move out and they get the WHOLE house to themselves.

Think private members’ club for the weekend — except the only members are you and your best friends.

Huge bedrooms, beautiful Georgian reception rooms, an indoor hot tub, cocktail bar, karaoke, games room, roof terrace and a 40-foot party room.

And because you can split the cost between up to 25 people, staying in a mansion for the weekend can sometimes work out cheaper per person than a Travelodge.

Which is slightly mad when you think about it.

So yes, every weekend we pack our bags and move out of our own home…

So you can move in. ❤️

📍 Norfolk House, Yorkshire
🏠 Sleeps up to 25

30/08/2026

£4,000 for a weekend might sound like a lot of money…

But when you realise Norfolk House can sleep up to 25 people, it can actually work out cheaper per person than staying in a Travelodge. Believe it or not.

And this isn’t just a large residential house with lots of beds squeezed into it.

Norfolk House is a huge Georgian mansion.

To give you some idea of the scale, a house just a few doors down, almost identical in size, has been converted into 16 large apartments.

Here, you get the entire house to yourselves.

Think less holiday let and more private members’ club for the weekend, except the only members are you and your best friends.

Yes, there’s an indoor hot tub, roof terrace, patio garden, games room, karaoke, cocktail bar and a 40-foot party room.

But actually, those aren’t the things that make people walk through the door and go WOW.

It’s the sheer size and scale of the house.

The huge Georgian rooms.
The high ceilings.
The beautiful bedrooms.
The enormous reception rooms.
And having all of that space completely to yourselves.

There’s something quite special about getting 20-odd of your favourite people together and having an entire mansion as your home for the weekend.

No hotel corridors.
No strangers at breakfast.
No worrying about the table next to you when you all get a bit loud.

Just your favourite people, under one very big roof.

And yes… we really do move out every weekend so you can move in. 😝

30/08/2026

No one will visit Huddersfield. Just sell the bloody mansion.

That’s what people told me when I said I was going to turn our forever home into one of the UK’s most beautiful hen-party mansions.

Most people thought it wouldn’t work.

“Take the money. Buy yourself a little house. Move on.”

But I wasn’t ready to give up that easily.

This was our forever home.
The house we brought our children up in.
The house we thought we’d grow old in.

But when we couldn’t sell it, I was heartbroken.

Looking back now?

I’m so glad nobody wanted it.

At one point, I even tried to sell the house for £1 in a raffle and couldn’t sell enough tickets!

So instead, we tried something completely different.

We rented our home out.

At first through Airbnb, and then I started building what became The Scarlet Hen.

And that house that supposedly nobody would travel to Huddersfield for?

It paid its own bills.
It paid for a new roof.
It helped keep our family going.

And eventually, it became a proper business.

A business that can give me an income for the rest of my life and one day, something our children can inherit.

Best of all, we still own our beautiful historic home.

We just get to be its custodians for a little bit longer.

And yes, people always ask me:

“But where do YOU go when there are 20-odd women having a hen party in your house?”

We move out.

We rent somewhere locally and still move in and out of our own home nearly every weekend.

Is it completely normal?

Probably not. 😂

Is it for everybody?

Absolutely not.

But it works for us.

So I want to know…

Would YOU rent out your own home every weekend if it meant you could keep it, keep your family afloat and build something your children could inherit?

Or do you think we’re completely bloody mad? 😂

After helping to plan 800+ hen parties, I’ve seen pretty much everything.The bridesmaids who enjoy the weekend most aren...
27/08/2026

After helping to plan 800+ hen parties, I’ve seen pretty much everything.

The bridesmaids who enjoy the weekend most aren’t necessarily the ones who plan every last minute.

They’re the ones who start early, keep things simple, delegate and realise quite quickly that you are NEVER going to keep 20 people happy all of the time.

Someone will drop out.

Someone will be late paying.

Someone will have an opinion about absolutely everything.

And someone who wanted all the plans changing will probably end up not coming anyway.

My biggest bit of advice?

Don’t over-plan it.

Some of the best bits of a hen weekend are the bits that were never on the itinerary, sitting around chatting, everyone getting ready together, the morning-after debrief and different friendship groups getting to know each other.

Leave room for all of that.

And once you arrive, remember: your job is done too.

Pour yourself a drink, put your feet up and enjoy the weekend you’ve spent all that time planning. 🥂

If you’ve planned a hen party before, what’s the ONE thing you wish somebody had told you before you started? 👇

Charlotte x

24/08/2026

For the past 10 years every single weekend I have welcomed a group of 20 strangers to my forever home in West Yorkshire!

But what you might find stranger is that I literally hand them the keys and give them free range of my home.

What started out of necessity has become a great business for me? But along the way there has been challenges, funny moments and some sticky situations.

But as the host of the UK most beautiful Hen Party mansion (also available for celebration stays) we have a saying… what happens in Huddersfield? - Stays in Huddersfield. So to all my previous guest, please don’t worry your secrets are safe with us. 😆

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