Blencowe Hall

Accessed via ornately carved masonry doorways are the two ground floor ensuite bedrooms in the North Tower of Blencowe Hall. The Garden Bedroom (4’6 double bed) has a private ensuite wet room set into the curve of the spiral staircase leading up to the Solar and has private access to a low walled garden at the base of the North Tower. The Garden Bedroom’s stone mullioned windows are set into five foot thick walls overlooking the formal gardens at the front of Blencowe Hall.

Farther up the oak floored ground floor passage is the Adam de Blencowe Bedroom. This room has 6′ king size bed which may also be configured as 2 x 3′ single beds depending on guest preference. This room has a private en suite with a cast iron bath and separate shower.

Up the stone spiral staircase leading to the top of the North Tower which carries on up to the North Tower battlement roof is the North Tower Master Bedroom with its 5′ four poster bed. This room has a view to the formal gardens to the front and a private en suite with a separate shower and cast iron bath.

At the other end of the oak floored passage is the Lady Jane Grey Room overlooking the North Tower gardens. It has a 6′ king size bed which may also be arranged as two 3′ single beds if preferred. Lady Jane Grey’s sister was related to Henry de Blencowe and her last message to her sister before her execution in 1554 “Vivere Mori, Mori Vitae” is carved above the main entrance to Blencowe Hall. The spacious Lady Jane Grey Room has an ensuite bathroom with a cast iron bath and a separate shower.

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The South Tower has two bedroom suites each of which occupy an entire floor of the Tower and have luxurious private en suite bath and shower rooms.

Cromwell’s Folly and its adjoining private ensuite occupy the entire first floor of the South Tower. It is furnished with a five-foot-four poster bed and its bathroom has a cast iron roll-top bath and separate shower. It has amazing views from within the historic rent in the South Tower which is now fully glazed incorporating a private Juliette balcony overlooking the formal gardens of the Central Range.

The South Tower Master Bedroom at Blencowe Hall is accessed via a private stairwell and has a glazed partition and Juliette balcoy overlooking Blencowe Hall’s gardens and fields and fells in the distance. It has a private dressing room, a bathroom with a cast iron roll-top bath and separate walk-in shower and an antique four-poster six-foot bed.

This bedroom has spectacular views from three sides at the top of the Hall and a narrow spiral stone staircase leading to the South Tower Roof. As with Cromwell’s Folly, this room is unusual in that prior to the restoration, the ceiling and floor were completely absent with the medieval stone mullions and fireplaces preserved in the fabric of the tower walls.

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Beyond the labyrinthine stairways and passages, explore the rolling countryside with your hounds at your heels. (Dogs are always welcome at The Rowley Estates.) Along the Eden Valley, ancient stone circles and Lacy’s Caves keep the mystery alive. Or get down to earth and muddy, hiking and biking the hills and fells. Mess about in boats on the Lakes – Ullswater’s a fifteen-minute drive away. Take a spin along the A686, voted top in The Telegraph’s Five Most Beautiful British Drives. Stroll into Greystoke village to see the castle Cromwell’s army missed and enjoy a local brew at The Boot and Shoe.

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Blencowe Hall sits on a bluff above the small River Petterill and is encompassed by its own gardens, grounds and fields. It has views to the nearby Lakeland Fells and across the rolling Eden Valley.

Guests staying at Blencowe Hall can enjoy brown trout or coarse fishing, golfing, arrange for clay pigeon shooting or archery within the grounds or take a cycle out for the day. There are some great runs and walks in the local area including a path to the Boot and Shoe pub in Greystoke!