Inside ‘UK’s loneliest house’ where you can stay for £28 a night

HIGH UP, surrounded by mountains and with little but the wind to keep you company, you can now spend a night in UK’s loneliest house.

Skiddaw House in Cumbria is only accessible by foot, has no electricity or internet and is ideal for anyone looking to escape the real world.

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The 19th Century home has no sign of people for miles and is a perfect for keen walkers, adventurers or anyone who doesn’t like other people.

The house, which sits on 3,000 acres of Lake District protected land, describes itself as “an Alpine-hut style bunkhouse” and you can bag a bed in a shared room for £28.50 a night.

Skiddaw has been dubbed “UK’s loneliest house”, but it makes up for it with breath-taking views across miles of dramatic and undisturbed wilderness.

And, there’s plenty of time to take in the scenery during the one hour and 20 minute hike to get there from the nearest village.

It boasts six bedrooms and five bathrooms and the nearest ounce of civilisation is a village nearly four miles away, while the closest shop is five miles away.

The almost 200-year-old house runs on solar panels for light and hot water, while heating is provided only by wood-burning stoves.

For the first ever time, Skiddaw House (without its land) went on sale in 2021 for £1.5million, but failed to sell.

The remoteness, the lack of electricity and the four-mile mountainous walk to the nearest pub might have had something to do with it.

In November, it returned to the market. This time it went on sale with all of its glorious land for around £10 million.

The estate agents described it as “an exciting and unique opportunity to purchase the most remote house in England.”

Andrew Wright, head of Mitchell’s Land Agency who’s selling the property, told The Guardian: “It is one of the largest areas of the Lake District national park ever to be sold.”

For now, its still seems to be a hostel for intrepid adventurers keen to experience its surrounding wilderness.

Skiddaw House also has something of a famous history having been popularised in fiction by writers and poets across the 20th Century.

Author Hugh Walpole called it “one of the loneliest dwelling-places in all of the British Isles”. It was the setting for a brutal and dramatic murder in his eerie 1932 novel The Fortress.

Walpole painted a rather specific picture: “Through this vale twisted the mountain torrent, fighting with stones, letting its life be dominated by these piling stones that heaped themselves one on another.”

Sound enticing? Head out to Cumbria’s wilderness for under £30 – but only if you can get there.

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