Skiddaw House on the market for first time, along with 1,214 hectares of Lake District land – including three mountaintops
The novelist Hugh Walpole was particularly taken by Skiddaw House, setting a murder scene there in his 1932 novel The Fortress. It is “one of the loneliest dwelling-places in all the British Isles”, he writes, “the only building from Threlkeld to Dash”.
Over the decades, shepherds have come and gone. The longest resident was Pearson Dalton whose departure from Skiddaw House was the subject of aHe was there for nearly 50 years with his goat, cat and dogs, it said, until compulsorily retired by his employer, fearful that “should anything happen to the old man of the mountains he could be without help for days”.
The property was empty in the 1970s, falling into disrepair, until it was converted in 1986 into what is now Britain’s highest youth hostel.
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