Friday, 21 November 2008

£1.1m for ‘premier’ hotel

AN AWARD-WINNING country house hotel near Keswick has been sold, through Knight Frank’s hotels team, for its guide price of £1.1 million.

Swinside award
Award-winning: Swinside Lodge Hotel, Borrowdale has been sold for £1.1m

The recently refurbished Swinside Lodge Hotel, in the Newlands Valley, is an eight-bedroom Georgian hotel.

Planning permission has been granted to convert garages, stables and dog kennels at the site into a two-bedroom house for use by the hotel.

Swinside Lodge recently won the Cumbrian Tourism Small Hotel of the Year award.

Mark Bailey, of Knight Frank, said: “The hotel delivers a strong turnover and profit and is now recognised as one of the premier small hotels in the Lake District.”

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