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Gilpin Lake House
Windermere,
Cumbria
Hotel
+44 (0)15394 88818
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£405 - £570
per night
Small, luxurious hideaway, a sublime spa hotel with six rooms and a treatment room overlooking a private lake
6 rooms
Rooms sleep 2
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2 Guests 10 Dec 24 - 10 Dec 24
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£405 - £570 per night
The Experience
This is an extraordinary place – a tiny spa hotel, filled with gorgeous antiques and flowers and with only six rooms in the house – luxury and intimacy entwined. It sits away from the crowds, lost in the hills, surrounded by acres of peaceful woodland. A swimming pool in the house opens onto a terrace with loungers overlooking the lake. Elsewhere, beautiful gardens, a rowing boat, and a second hot tub overlooking fells.
There’s a treatment room in a cabin that sits above the lake, then a snug boathouse with a deck on the water. Spoiling rooms have fabulous beds, sofas, beautiful fabrics, bathrooms that don’t hold back. Sumptuous breakfasts are served wherever you want: your room, the terrace, the conservatory – light bites, picnic hampers and afternoon teas are sublime.
There’s a chauffeur to whizz you up to their sister hotel for delicious dinners. Come with friends and take the whole place. Out of this world.
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We think you'll love
- Staying in such a get-away-from-it-all hotel in utter luxury and peace – or getting married here
- Spending summer days by the lake, swimming and sunbathing, making use of the spa
- Getting a lift, or walking in fine weather, to the Gilpin for fabulous food at either of their restaurants
You should know
- Sorry, no dogs
- Children over 7 only please
Essentials
- EV charger
- Swimming pool
- Hot tub
- Garden
- Open fire / woodburner
- Breakfast included
- Breakfast available
- Meals available
- Vegetarian meals
- Parking on premises
- Free parking nearby
- Accessible by public transport
- WiFi
- Television
- Spa
- Central heating
- Limited mobility
- Wheelchair access
- Mobile reception
- Hob
- Bar
- Barbecue
- Licensed premises
- Paid parking nearby
- Air conditioning
- Relaxation areas
- Washing machine
- Tennis court
- No smoking
- Credit cards
- Working farm
- Owner has pets
- Pets welcome
Family friendly
- Baby monitor
- Books and toys
- Children welcome
- Babies welcome
- Stair gates
- High chair
- Fire guard
- Cot available
Nearby
- Pub/bar within 3 miles
- Restaurant within 3 miles
- Shop within 3 miles
Activities
- Bikes available
- Food courses
- Kayaking
- Other courses
- Sailing
- Surfing
- Wild swimming
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Accommodation
Pricing
- Nightly price
- from £405
- 6 Twin/doubles
- From £405
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Information
Booking information
- Check in
- 3pm
- Check out
- By 10.30am
- Other details
- Minimum stay: 2 nights. 3 nights in high season. Children over 7 welcome.
- Closed
- Rarely.
- No smoking
- Smoking not permitted anywhere in the property.
- Meals
- 2 dining choices: Gilpin Spice (pan-Asian snacks & sharing plates, mains from £16), and SOURCE at Gilpin Hotel (modern European).
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Location
The neighbourhood
The house sits down a narrow road among trees, overlooking tranquil Knipe Tarn and there are views all the way to Morecambe Bay from a small knoll. Red deer might stroll by, the woods are full of birds and the feel is very rural – but you're only a short hop to Bowness-on-Windermere for boat trips on the lake, mountains for hiking or climbing, Windermere Golf Course and lots of little villages.
Local points of interest from Team Gilpin
- Hop onto one of the Windermere Lake Cruises, or go kayaking or canoeing on Windermere for a more adventurous thrill before booking yourself an amazing spa treatment over looking Knipe Tarn
- Climb the highest point in England, Scafell Pike or one of the other 214 Wainwrights all within easy reach of Gilpin Hotel & Lakehouse
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Introducing
Team Gilpin
John and Christine bought Gilpin House in 1988 and both worked tirelessly at Gilpin Hotel & Lake House until their sad passing in 2020 and 2022 respectively. Their eldest son Barney, with daughter Xiá and wife Zoë, run Gilpin on a day-to-day basis – although Xiá has to fit in school as well. Younger son Ben, of Ben Cunliffe Architects, is involved with doing all the architecture of Gilpin Hotel & Lake House.
This is a small hotel and is cosy and comfortable with beautiful decor and antiques, and you are looked after and mollycoddled too! The spa and massage rooms are an appealing feature. The appeal of Gilpin Lake House is that it is set alone in woodland with complete peace and quiet and is like a private house.