Historic Lake District inn being redeveloped into £3m boutique hotel
The Kirkstone Pass Inn, which was bought by development company Supreme Escapes in 2021, is currently being refurbished to open as a boutique hotel with pub attached.
Supreme Escapes are a company who say they 'specialise in rural and countryside areas, taking semi-derelict buildings and finding new ways of giving them a new lease of life'.
They have previously developed a former Church in Cockermouth into a holiday home.
Company co-founder Jerry Huppert estimates that Supreme Escapes have so far spent around £3million and are hoping to have a final spend of around £3.25 million.
He said: 'We have given the building a new lease of life now for hopefully another 150 years.
'It's an honour to be given such an opportunity and I recommend more developers and investors go down the route of bringing back heritage and dilapidated building in the UK rather than just always jumping on the new builds.'
The developer hopes that the Kirkstone Pass Inn will be opened as a boutique hotel by the end of July with the pub element set to follow shortly after.
Following news of the redevelopment coming out on social media, the company faced a backlash to the plans with some people fearing the venue would be used for stag and hen parties as well as raising concerns about the loss of character of the building.
However Mr Huppert said that rumours of the pub being turned into a venue for stag and hen parties were 'unsubstantiated' and that those who are speaking out now against the plans should have supported the pub before it was allowed to have become semi-derelict.
'The way I look at it is something is happening, someone went and invested in a place that was going down, if the place was flourishing then the people wouldn't have sold it", said Mr Huppert.
'All the comments of 'we have just loss this', 'we have just lost that', this asset wasn't supported.
'The question is not should we have been allowed to come and do what we did, the question is why did the locals and whoever has bad feelings about what we have done, where has their support been all these years prior, it's easier to come back in hindsight.'
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