Visitors to Dalemain can explore almost four centuries of history, five acres of outstanding gardens, and home-cooked meals served in the mediaeval tearoom.
Dalemain is among the most beautiful and remarkable stately homes in England’s North West. Its Georgian façade’s highly finished pink stone sparkles magnificently in the sunlight. The storey of its past is veiled under the orderly geometry of its Palladian construction.
Dalemain means “manor in the valley,” and there has been a village here since the time of the Saxons.
The oldest historical reference of a building on this site is of a fortified pele tower during Henry II’s time; one of a series of towers built to safeguard the nation from the marauding and barbarous ‘border reiver’ Scots to the north.
