Enjoy a lovingly crafted day out at one of the most enchanting historic houses in the Lake District.

When the architect MH Baillie Scott built a holiday home overlooking Windermere for his client Sir Edward Holt he created Blackwell, a masterpiece of twentieth-century design; a perfect example of the Arts & Crafts Movement.

Blackwell is one of Britain’s finest arts & crafts houses from the turn of the last century. It survives in a truly remarkable state of preservation retaining many original decorative features.

When entering Blackwell you will be seeing the very details that the Holt family would have seen over 100 years ago; you will look out over the lawns and Lake to the same magnificent views of the Coniston Fells and experience the tranquil atmosphere that the family would have loved.

The period rooms are carefully furnished with the blend of Arts and Crafts furniture and early country-made pieces advocated by Baillie Scott, containing furniture and objects by many of the leading Arts & Crafts designers and studios – furniture by Morris & Co and Voysey, metalwork by W A S Benson, woodwork by Arthur Simpson and ceramics by Ruskin Pottery and William de Morgan.

Visitors are encouraged to sit and soak up the atmosphere in Blackwell’s fireplace inglenooks and are free to enjoy the house as it was originally intended, without roped-off areas. The inviting window and garden seats offer stunning views of the surrounding Lakeland scenery.

OPENING TIMES

Open Daily 15 Jan - 31 Dec 2016

Times: 10.30am - 5pm
(closing 4pm Nov - Feb)

Closed 25 & 26 Dec

ADMISSION

Adult £8.50 (without donation £7.70)

Friends, Patrons & Benefactors FREE

Free admission for young people up to the age of 16 and full-time students over 16.

National Art Pass 50% discount

ADDRESS

Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House
Bowness-on-Windermere
Cumbria
LA23 3JT

Tel: 015394 46139
info@blackwell.org.uk
www.blackwell.org.uk

To find our more about what’s on, our current exhibitions and to plan your visit, please go to www.blackwell.org.uk