In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- Light and spacious Room 2 has exposed beams, a limestone bathroom and views of the garden. High-ceilinged Room 4 is also airy and big, overlooking the front garden. Room 6 is the largest in the main house, with a separate snug sofa area, and a natural-stone, garden-view bathroom. In the cottage, split-level Room 7 has a spiral staircase leading up to the bedroom and bathroom.
- Packing tips
- Walking boots and big appetite.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A complimentary gift box of toiletries from the Bath House of Sedbergh
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Hipping Hall
Lake District, United Kingdom[view map]
- Style
- Historic fine dining
- Setting
- Verdant Lune Valley
A cluster of ivy-clad stone buildings set in three acres of greenery, Lancashire restaurant with rooms Hipping Hall is a lovingly restored 15th-century hamlet. In contrast to the soothing neutrals and airy tranquility of the bedrooms, the reception room, bar and lounge are strikingly opulent, with just a dash of kitsch. The elegant bathrooms have all been designed in a different natural stone, with deep double-ended baths.
Need to know
- Rooms
- Nine: six rooms in the main house, and three more rooms in a cottage across the courtyard from the hall itself.
- Rates
- £225–£310, including breakfast.
- Check-out
- 11am, but pretty flexible; earliest check-in, 3pm.
- Facilities
- Handmade beds, Vi-Spring mattresses, flatscreen TVs, CD players, underfloor heating in bathrooms, and toiletries by the Bath House in Sedbergh. In-room beauty treatments on request.
- Hotel closed
- 1–23 January.
- Also
- Guests with a small and well-behaved dog can be accommodated in the duplex cottage room. There's a two-night minimum on Saturday night stays.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Under high-vaulted eaves in a 15th-century hall with a minstrels’ gallery, feast on Jason Birkbeck’s modern take on traditional British fare, with origins in Lancashire, Yorkshire and Cumbria. Seasonal veg are plucked straight from the walled garden.
- Dress code
- Loosen your collar as much as you like.
- Top table
- In front of the fire in winter, or on the balcony in summer.
- Last orders
- 1.45pm for lunch, 9.30pm for dinner. Drinks are served as late as you like.
- Room service
- Drinks only, from 7.45am until 11.30pm.
- Hotel bar
- Residents can relax at all hours in the oak-panelled bar, by the fire or looking out over the landscaped gardens.
Also worth knowing
- Children
- Welcome, though there is no special menu in the restaurant. There is a foldaway bed, and Room 6 has a sofa bed, with an extra charge only if your child is having dinner.
Smith Members offer
A complimentary gift box of toiletries from the Bath House of Sedbergh
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Hipping Hall
Cowan Bridge
Kirkby Lonsdale
Lancashire
LA6 2JJ
