Lakenham Guest House is situated in its own grounds on a quiet, broad, tree-lined avenue within the Buxton conservation area, overlooking the beautiful Pavilion Gardens.

A gentle stroll through the Pavilion Gardens brings you to Buxton's town Centre with it’s famous Georgian Crescent, world renowned Opera House and a host of amenities including shopping in Spring Gardens Cavendish Arcade, Old Court House Shops and the traditional Open Market which is held in the Town Square on Saturdays.

You get the best of both worlds when you stay at Lakenham.

Lakenham offers all modern facilities yet successfully retains it’s charming Victorian character. Tastefully furnished with period furniture, paintings and antiquities, Lakenham was featured on BBC’s Antique Inspectors with Eric Knowles in 1997.

Lakenham was designed by the architect WR Bryden of Buxton. Bryden designed many buildings in the town including the addition of a theatre at the Pavilion Gardens (The Paxton Suite) in 1889. Bryden took his vernacular revival designs into a pair of large semidetached houses, ‘Lakenham’ and ‘Inglethorpe’ at the end of Burlington Road featuring half-timbered gables and crenellated ground floor bays. Lakenham became his own residence in 1898. Bryden went on to design many more houses in Buxton for various wealthy Stockbrokers, Manchester Metal Dealers and textile Merchants along with Flour Millers Robert McDougal and Arthur McDougal.

Following in the footsteps of her parents who ran the successful Guest House ‘Nithen Corner’ in Buxton for many years, Kathryn has been providing hospitality to visitors to Buxton for 25 years. Initially at ‘Greenhaven’ on St James Street before moving to ‘Lakenham’ in 1986.

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