Vellacourt Grasmere

Welcome to Grasmere

A Victorian slate house on the shore, with its own boathouse and jetty. A tasting menu worth the drive, a lake-view spa, and walks that start at the back door.

Style: Lakeside
Rooms and suites: 36
Building: From 1860
Check-in, check-out: 3pm, 11am
Good for: spa, pool, dogs welcome, family friendly, weddings

01
Fell
A tasting menu of the valley: lake fish, Herdwick lamb, wild herbs.
02
The boathouse
Row out at dawn, or take the launch across for a picnic.
03
Lake-view spa
A hydrotherapy pool looking straight down the lake.

The story

Since 1860

A Manchester mill owner built the house in 1860 as a summer retreat, and his rowing boats are still in the boathouse. The gardens run down to the water through rhododendrons and old oaks.

Our chef forages on the fells and fishes the lake, and the menu reads like a map of the valley.

Stay

Rooms and suites

All rooms

Fell View Room

28m² · Fells

From £310 a night

Lake View Room

34m² · Lake

From £415 a night

Boathouse Suite

60m² · Lake, from the jetty

From £715 a night

Eat and drink

Fell

Twelve seats at the pass and twenty-eight in the dining room, with the lake beyond. Eight courses of the valley.

Fell Tasting menu
The Boathouse Bar Lakeside bar

Menus and tables

Spa

The Lake Spa

A hydrotherapy pool with the lake at the end of it, a sauna built of larch, and cold-water swimming from the jetty for the brave.

Hydrotherapy pool
Larch sauna and steam room
Four treatment rooms
Lake swimming from the jetty (May to September)

Treatments and prices

Gallery

Offers

At Grasmere

Every hotel

Stay longer

Stay three nights, and the third is on us.

View offer

4 hotels

Spa escape

Two nights, breakfast, and a 60-minute treatment each.

View offer

4 hotels

Dogs’ weekend

Bring the dog. We’ll bring the bed, the bowls and the sausages.

View offer

Getting here

Find us

Lakeside Road
Grasmere
Cumbria LA22

01632 960 150
grasmere@vellacourt.example

Train: Windermere station is 25 minutes by car. We’ll collect you.
Car: Leave the M6 at junction 36; about an hour. Free parking and EV chargers.

Nearby

Helm Crag From the door
A short, steep climb to one of the best views in the Lakes.
Dove Cottage 5 min drive
Wordsworth’s home, and the gingerbread shop nearby.
Ambleside 15 min drive
Galleries, outdoor shops and a lake steamer to Windermere.