Private Dining Room

From light lunches and relaxed buffets to formal dinners and banquet celebrations, our Private Dining Room provides a versatile space for every kind of mealtime.

Our team can make sure the food matches up to the occasion, working with our catering service to tailor your menu to your guests’ requirements.

While the Private Dining Room is a space made for food, it’s also equipped for professional, business-focused events. The space can be configured for multiple layouts depending on requirements such as formal presentations, round table discussions, dinners and exhibitions.

Accessible Features

  • Ground floor venue
  • Accessible via double doors
  • Accessible toilets in County South
  • Lecture Theatre foyer next door

Private Dining Room Venue Capacity

The venue can provide a reception space for up to 200 people, a seated event for up to 160, and can be split in half creating to two rooms. Events can take place as a boardroom set-up, a hybrid enabled meeting room, and a flat floored hybrid presentation room.

Dimensions(m)
Theatre Cabaret Banquet Reception H L W A
160 110 120 200 2.9 22.3 9.7 216.31

Navigate around the Private Dining Room using our interactive campus map; MazeMap.

AV Equipment Summary

  • Presentation PC
  • Laptop HDMI input
  • USB connectivity for laptop access to room cameras and microphones
  • Four Repeater displays with individual HDMI inputs
  • 4 wireless microphones
  • 4 ceiling microphones
  • 3 auto tracking ceiling mounted cameras
  • Removable presentation lectern
  • Auxiliary connectivity for 3rd party equipment connectivity
  • Background music from Bluetooth or wired connection

Find Us

Postcode: LA1 4YW. Please follow the directions below to get to the Private Dining Rooms specifically.

Directions to Private Dining Rooms

Leave the M6 motorway at Junction 33 and take the A6 north towards Lancaster.

For the Private Dining Rooms turn left at the roundabout at the top of the main University driveway.  Follow the road down past the security lodge and keep going until you reach the visitor parking on North Drive where the woodland trail begins.

We recommend that delegates use Visitor Car Parking Zones A, B or C when visiting The Marketplace. 

If you are on our day delegate or 24 hour residential package, free car parking permits can be collected from your Event Coordinator on arrival. Alternatively, the parking is pay and display and cards are accepted.

The Private Dining Rooms can be found in the Blue Zone on the campus map and is marked by the letters COS.