England, Wales & Scotland - Yorkshire
Lord Crewe Arms
A Karen Brown Recommended Hotel / Inn
Owners: Alex Todd, & Peter Gingell |
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Karen's Review Of This Property:
Arriving in Blanchland gives one a sense of achievement, for it is far from the beaten path, nestled in a little valley amidst moors and forests. With little cottages, a church, and the Lord Crewe Arms set round a cobbled square, it is a fascinating village which has changed little since it was bequeathed by the Crewe family, in 1721, to a trust that administers the village. Public rooms are intriguing: the abbey kitchen is now the reception-lounge with two elegant old sofas drawn round its fire; the adjacent room has a gigantic fireplace with a “priest’s hole” where General Forster hid after his band of Royalist Jacobites was defeated at the Battle of Preston in 1715; the bar with its barrel-vaulted ceiling was once an abbey storeroom. Stairs twist up and around to the bedrooms: Number 17 with large windows overlooking the garden, and 19 with its four-poster bed set under the eaves, are the most spacious. Across the cobbled square an additional ten bedrooms occupy The Angel, a former rival temperance hotel. September is the biggest bedroom with a large attic window looking across the square. The Lord Crewe Arms is an ideal base for explorations of Hadrian’s Wall and visiting Beamish Museum.
21 Rooms, Double Occupancy: £100.00
Open: all year
Phone: 01434 675251 Fax: 01434 675337
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