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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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