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We are delighted to market the former Lake District home of film director Ken Russell, and present home of his ex wife, Vivian Russell, the well known garden writer and photographer.
This landmark Lakeland stone detached property, featured in Bill Birketts book on Borrowdale, dates back to the 1860’s. The cottage now provides a flexible layout, equally suited as a main residence or as a weekend/holiday cottage.
Coombe Cottage sits on the roadside at the jaws of the Borrowdale Valley with superb views from each room to the fells and a superb 360 degree panorama around Maiden Moor, Catbells, Derwentwater, Skiddaw, Shepherd’s Crag and Coomb fell from the upstairs living room. The Derwent River, with its picturesque China Bridge and duck boards leading to the shores of Derwentwater, are only a short walk from the house, and the Lodore Falls are just up the road.
IT IS RARE THAT A PROPERTY OF THIS CHARACTER AND HISTORY COMES ONTO THE MARKET THAT GIVES SCOPE FOR THE PURCHASER TO ADAPT TO THEIR OWN REQUIREMENTS.
The accommodation briefly comprises:
Open fronted entrance porch leading to breakfast kitchen.
BREAKFAST KITCHEN (22’4 x 10’2) A range of fitted kitchen units to two walls with Lakeland Honister slate work surfaces, two sash windows to the front elevation with views. There is a working but unused fireplace at end of room, one storage heater and a slimline panel heater. Stained glass door to the hallway.
INNER HALLWAY Staircase to the first floor with built in under stairs cupboard. Night storage heater.
CLOAKROOM Vanity unit and WC.
BEDROOM (15’5 x 13’9) Night storage heater, slimline panel heater and sash windows to the front, rear and side elevations with a view to the fells and rear courtyard.
STUDY (8’10 x 9’6) Night storage heater, under stairs cupboard and door to the conservatory.
CONSERVATORY (15’9 x 6’11) Ceramic tiled flooring, exposed stone wall, pleasant outlook and stained glass door to the garden.
BEDROOM (11’2 x 8’2) Sash window, panel heater, small fitted children’s wardrobe and glazed door to the courtyard.
LAUNDRY ROOM (8’6 x 8’6) Plumbing for washing machine.
BEDROOM (11’10 to 9’8 x 9’2) Access from the courtyard and window to the garden. Full wall of fitted wardrobes, exposed stone wall and panel heater.
Staircase to the first floor.
SPLIT LANDING
BATHROOM (8’2 x 7’10) Giving through access to the bedroom. Two piece suite comprising bath and vanity unit. Two walls built of Lakeland slate and sash window providing views to the fells.
SEPARATE WC
BEDROOM (22’ x 8’2) Sash windows to the rear and side of the property providing views to the fells. Fitted wardrobes and wall mounted slimline heater.
OPEN PLAN LIVING ROOM (36’6 x 20’7 to 15’6) A feature of the property is the open plan living room with vaulted cruick, beamed ceiling, including Velux lights. The room is split into two, divided by a full height fireplace, comprising LIVING ROOM (21’3 x 20’6). The lounge area has sash windows to the front, rear and side elevation providing superb views to Derwentwater and surrounding fells. Open fire with quarry tiled hearth.
STUDY (18’ x 15’6) A superb room with two windows in the gable end providing views over Derwentwater, Skiddaw, Shepherd’s Crag and High Lodore Farm. A further sash window to the front elevation and two sliding patio doors to the balcony with a view over the cobbled courtyard, pond and Coomb Fell.
The garden has been planted from scratch over the last 30 years by Vivian Russell in response to Borrowdale’s legendary rainfall. Topiary in box and yew predominates, designed to echo the shapes of the surrounding fells. It gives the garden structure in winter and a green foil for the plants in spring and summer. The ethos of the garden has always been to ‘live and let live’, and through trial and error, a collection of easy, slug proof perennials and ferns has been built up over the years with no recourse to chemicals. The garden is alive with birds who find shelter, nesting sites and protection from predators in thickets of ivy and other shrubs and climbers which also screen the garden from the hotel. Notable mature specimens include the rare Chinese pocket handkerchief tree, Davidia involucrata, Magnolia sinensis, a row of Rhododendron loderi ‘King George’ and a lovely assortment of white and pale yellow hellebores.
The property also has a stone built GARAGE and parking for one car, and two small garden outbuildings.
In addition the property benefits from a detached SINGLE STOREY GUEST ACCOMMODATION just off the courtyard comprising of bedroom and WC with night storage heater.
Location/Directions - Coombe Cottage is on the B5289, approximately three and a half miles down the valley from Keswick, adjacent to the Borrowdale Hotel and below High Lodore Farm.
Borrowdale is arguably the most beautiful valley in England with the mighty Skiddaw presiding over Derwentwater, the ‘Queen of the Lakes’. It has been featured in recent television programmes hosted by David Dimbleby and Griff Rhys-Jones, and in the series on Wainwright Walks. The late Alfred Wainwright himself described Borrowdale as the ‘fairest valley’ in the Lake District. It is much loved by walkers, climbers and the true Lake District enthusiast due to its dramatic, stunning scenery.
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