Room to make your best record.
A carefully prepared session. Home-cooked meals. Space to stay. Make music in the quiet of the Sussex countryside.
Your session starts before you arrive.
Microphones are set, sessions are organised and instruments are ready. When the musicians arrive, everything is in place to begin.
Throughout the day, engineering, meals and the practical details are taken care of — leaving you free to concentrate on the music.
Lunch with Steve Howe, Jon Davison and Billy Sherwood during the making of YES – Aurora. Some of the most important conversations happen away from the control room.
Gwilym Simcock and Emma Rawicz taking a break between sessions. Sometimes the best ideas arrive away from the control room.
Every creative day has its own rhythm.
Some sessions last a few days. The friendships can last decades. Stacey Kent, Roberto Menescal, Jim Tomlinson, Jeremy Brown and Curtis Schwartz at the studio.
Everything you need, all in one place
The studio combines professional recording facilities with the practical comforts that help a session run smoothly from morning to evening.
Large live room, control room and private recording spaces
Recording, writing, overdubs and production
Stereo mixing and mastering
Comfortable on-site accommodation
Meals and refreshments throughout the day
Gardens, tennis court, table tennis and countryside walks
10 minutes from Haywards Heath station
Lots of on-site parking
Getting here from London
Direct trains from London Victoria and London Bridge reach Haywards Heath in around 45 minutes. I can meet you at the station, and from there it’s a 10-minute drive to the studio.
Free on-site parking is also available.
Instruments ready to play
Alongside the Steinway, the studio has a carefully chosen collection of keyboards, guitars, basses, amplifiers and acoustic instruments available during sessions.
The collection includes a Hammond organ with Leslie speakers, Sequential Prophet-6, Roland Jupiter, Nord Grand, Fender and Gibson electric guitars, Fender 5-string bass, steel-string and nylon-string classical guitars, mandolin, banjo, ukulele and a selection of guitar amplifiers.
These instruments are here so that, when inspiration strikes, the right instrument is already here waiting.
More than a recording studio
Berry House is a historic English country house with origins dating back to around 1300. Its old oak doors, leaded windows, period fittings and gardens give the studio a character that visiting artists often notice the moment they arrive.
For artists travelling from London, Europe, the USA or further afield, staying here means the recording becomes more than a series of booked studio hours. You can live with the music for a few days, write, record, eat and relax in the same place, without travelling back to a hotel each night.
There are also some lovely country pubs nearby if you fancy heading out for dinner after a day in the studio, or you can simply stay in and enjoy a home-cooked meal.
For international artists in particular, Berry House offers something increasingly rare: the chance to make a record in a historic English country house, surrounded by countryside, while having a fully equipped professional studio, Steinway concert grand and accommodation all under one roof.
A historic country house where artists can stay, write, record and live with the music for a while.
Stay a little longer. Light-filled bedrooms, leaded windows and the quiet of a Sussex country house — a place to unwind and wake ready to make music.
Residential recording without interruption
Residential sessions give artists time to settle properly into the music. Between recording, writing and listening back, there is space to eat, talk, walk, play tennis or simply step away from the control room.
The real luxury is continuity. When everyone stays on site, the project keeps its focus and ideas have time to develop naturally.