The Tea Room

Our walkers Tea room is in the centre of an excellent network of Footpaths and Bridleways and is ideally situated to be used as part of a circular walk or cycle route. Grid reference SD 31945 99867 Ordnance Survey Maps - Explorer Outdoor leisure 6 and 7.

We offer hot and cold drinks, cakes and lunches from the room furnished by Beatrix Potter in 1930 with all the original furnishings intact, additional seating is available on the lawn for sunny days

Our menu is simple, seasonal but sensational, locally sourced where possible. All our food is made from scratch to perfection in the Farmhouse kitchen and we guarantee you will notice the difference

Sorry, no parking at the farm for walkers tea room

Except customers with impaired mobility or groups in buses by arrangement

Ample parking is available Glen Mary (opposite the farm) In Coniston, Tilberthwaite and at Tarn Hows. Limited parking is available at Shepherd’s Bridge and Hodge close.

Opening Times
Summer 1st June to 31st October
Everyday 11am-4pm
The rest of the year
Weekends and holidays 11am-4pm
Please ring if in doubt!

In the 1930s the depression had hit Farming hard and Beatrix Potter encouraged her Tenants to take advantage of the growing number of visitors coming to the Lake District.

Mrs Heelis (as she was better known locally) thought Yew Tree Farm particularly suitably placed to offer visitors tea, she furnished the front parlour of the Farmhouse with her own antique furniture, including the oak and mahogany tables, Cumberland dresser, grandfather clock, Jacobean table and various other wonderful paintings and curios!

The Tea Room opened in the summer of 1933 and was a great success, the income it generated probably saved the viability of the Farm, Mrs Heelis wrote in a letter ‘the farm can scarcely pay without teas and visitors’.

The tea room is once again supporting the farm with all the original furnishings still as she left them in the room on the left as you enter the house.