Information for Stallholders: Festive Open Days 2025

Hosting makers, artisans, and creatives in the West Yorkshire area

The first Festive Open Days at Calverley Old Hall

The Landmark Trust has inviting makers, artisans, or creative sellers in the West Yorkshire area to take part in Festive Open Days at Calverley Old Hall on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November 2025. Local makers and sellers will showcase their work in a magnificent historic building during a weekend of craft, creativity and history.

Over the weekend the public will have full access to the site to find out about its history, including the prized Tudor wall paintings, discovered and conserved as part of the rescue of Calverley Old Hall.

Public Open Days are always popular with visitors from the local area and further afield. The May 2025 Open Days welcomed over 700 people across the weekend.

We’ll be hosting high quality stallholders from the Leeds and Bradford area. Whilst anyone can apply for a stall, we particularly welcome local artists, artisans and creatives within the region who make or produce:

Handmade crafts and gifts
Art, prints, ceramics, textiles
Local produce, festive food

Venue

Calverley Old Hall is a 700-year-old Grade I Listed building in the village of Calverley, between Leeds and Bradford. Following a major restoration project by the Landmark Trust, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund and completed in October 2024, it is now a fully furnished holiday let with publicly accessible Community Garden and hireable Community Space.

Address: Calverley Old Hall, Woodhall Road, Calverley, Pudsey, LS28 5NL (West Yorkshire)  

Stallholder Information

We are looking to host around 15 sellers over the weekend during the Open Days, indoors and outdoors at Calverley Old Hall. We expect to receive more submissions than we have space for, so unfortuanately will not be able to accommodate all sellers who express their interest.

The outside space is on the grass front garden where all visitors will enter. Outdoor stallholders must bring their own gazebos, tables and chairs to fit within their allocated 3m by 3m stall space.

The inside spaces will be inside the Community Space and in selected spots around Calverley Old Hall. As a fully furnished holiday let and historic space pitch sizes are restricted, but on average we hope to provide space for a 1.5m x 1m table plus some space to stand behind.

Space is limited and stallholders will be selected and informed by the end of August.
All equipment should be provided by stallholders.
There are a very limited number of tables on site, therefore stallholders should expect to provide their own tables.
Temporary walls or vertical hanging systems are not permitted due to space and the historic setting.
Stallholders are fully responsible for managing their own set up, manning their stand, sales and pack down.
Minimum age of stallholders is 18 years.
We cannot guarantee that your stand will be near a power source.
The Landmark Trust is not responsible for any theft or breakages during the event.
Due to limited parking and unloading space, stallholders will be given a set up time slot before the event begins. Vehicles will then have to be moved offsite to free local roadside parking.
Set up available from 8am and pack down should be completed by 5pm.
Full terms and conditions apply.

Full Stallholder Terms and Conditions

As this is a National Lottery Heritage Funded project, we are conducting all-round evaluation of the project. All stallholders will therefore be required to complete some post-event feedback. This will likely be an online SurveyMonkey form which should be completed in the week following the event by Friday 5 December 2025.

Cost

There is no fee for taking part in the fair. We are keen to support local makers, so with thanks to generous support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund who have supported the rescue of Calverley Old Hall, the cost of pitches will be subsidised by the Landmark Trust.

The Landmark Trust cannot support with any travel costs or other stallholder expenses.

Register your interest

Please register your interest by completing the online form. Deadline for expressions of interest is: Tuesday 26 August 2025 by 10am. The deadline for submissions of interest has now passed. Please email us: [email protected]

Key dates 

All expressions of interest should be submitted by Tuesday 26 August by 10am.
All applicants will be informed of our decision by Friday 5 September 2025.
The Open Days run on Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November, 10am-4pm. Priority will go to sellers who can attend both days.
All stallholders will need to complete their post event evaluation and feedback in the week following the event, completed by Friday 5 December 2025.

Who we are  

The Landmark Trust is the UK’s second biggest historic buildings charity. We rescue extraordinary historic buildings from dereliction and give them a vibrant new life as places everyone can enjoy for short breaks. Each year some 40,000 people stay in our buildings, and another 15,000 visit them on public open days or through our public engagement programmes. 

Calverley Old Hall is our most recent large repair project. This outstanding Grade I Listed medieval manor house is based in Calverley, a historic village located between Leeds and Bradford. Having been on the Buildings at Risk Register for almost a decade, in May 2022 the Landmark Trust was awarded a £1,600,000 grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for a two-year project to repair the building and bring it into new use. This huge repair project has just come to an end, resulting in a multi-use site, including a spectacular self-catering holiday accommodation for 10, alongside a self-contained residential flat and a dedicated Community Space for hire, opened in October 2024.  

For more details about our repair project please visit: www.landmarktrust.org.uk/calverley   

Equal Opportunities 

Landmark believes that every individual should have an equal opportunity to access, benefit from and enjoy Landmark’s work, whatever their background, culture or identity, and no matter how they encounter us – through holidays or events, as a member of staff or local community, as a freelance practitioner, through restoration projects or digital engagement. We seek to represent and embrace the breadth and variety of British history, culture and society, valuing visible and non-visible differences with openness and acceptance. We expect all our staff, including those hired as freelance practitioners to support Landmark’s equality, diversity and inclusivity principles and aspirations. 