Rest of the UK Folk Music Venues

Cranborne Earthouse

One of Dorset’s best kept secrets, the Earthouse is a 200-seat theatre – lit by lamplight and fire-light. Here audiences sit on wooden benches, under an earth roof, held up by 21 huge oak tree trunks.

The Earthouse has an immensely heavy roof of earth and this is supported by 21 oak trees, ash purlins and dozens of pole rafters. The bedrock chalk has been terraced inside to give tiered seating for 250 people. The building is used everyday for teaching purposes and hosts our evening storytelling events. It remains an awe inspiring building and is unique. The Earthouse reconstruction was conceived as a space for public events such as storytelling and musical performance and, as such, does not seek to recreate a realistic interior of these buildings. The architecture is monumental and takes inspiration as much from henge monuments as it does from roundhouses.

Phone: 01725 517618

Address: The Ancient Technology Centre, Damerham Rd, Cranborne, Dorset

Postcode: BH21 5RP

Area/Nearest station: Cranborne

Twitter name: @ATCranborne

Facebook name: https://www.facebook.com/AncientTechnologyCentre/