Wedding Photographer The Thatch Barn Somerset — Somerset Valleys, the Thatched Barn Setting and the Countryside
The Thatch Barn in Somerset is one of the county’s most characterful and most distinctively vernacular barn wedding venues — a restored thatched barn in the Somerset countryside whose deep West Country thatch roof, the lime-plastered walls and the surrounding farmland provide a portrait setting of Somerset agricultural vernacular architecture quite different in character from the stone-and-slate farm buildings of the Mendips or the Georgian formality of the county’s country house venues. For The Thatch Barn Somerset wedding photography, the venue’s distinctive thatched roof, the surrounding Somerset paddocks and orchard gardens and the countryside views toward the Quantocks or Mendips provide portrait settings of English rural agricultural character of genuine West Country farmyard authenticity.
The Thatched Barn, the Orchard and the Somerset Paddocks
The barn’s thatched roof — the deep Somerset reed thatch of the converted agricultural barn, with the traditional ridge and the eaves’ overhanging deep shadow profile — provides a portrait backdrop of West Country vernacular agricultural building character that functions particularly well in afternoon sidelight when the thatch’s texture is revealed and the warm cream plaster walls are lit golden. The orchard and paddock gardens surrounding the barn — the apple trees’ gnarled branches, the orchard grass and the paddock fence — provide informal countryside portrait settings of Somerset orchard and pasture character. The wooden beams and exposed timber structure of the barn interior provide ceremony and dancing portrait settings of converted agricultural barn character.
The Somerset Vale Countryside and the Mendip and Quantock Views
The Somerset countryside surrounding The Thatch Barn — the rolling vale of the county’s interior, between the upland moorland plateaux of the Mendips and the Quantocks and the flat pastoral plain of the Somerset Levels — provides a portrait landscape of English agricultural vale of characteristic Somerset character: the hedgerow-divided pasture fields, the willow-pollarded rhines visible in the lower ground and the church tower of the nearest village visible on the horizon. The Levels’ flat sky and the Quantocks’ ridge silhouette visible south and north respectively provide portrait compositions of Somerset vale landscape. Nearby cider orchards provide additional Somerset-specific portrait settings in blossom season (April) and harvest (October–November).