Skip to content
Exploring Peaks
Menu

Dog friendly cottages in the Lake District

48 of the 75 properties listed in the Lake District say dogs are welcome. The other 27 say they are not.

How many dogs

The limit is the merchant's own, and it is the question most listings leave you to discover at the point of booking.

  • Up to one dog 12 properties
  • Up to two dogs 18 properties
  • Up to three dogs 10 properties
  • Up to four dogs 4 properties
  • Up to five dogs 2 properties
  • Welcome, no number given 2 properties

18 of the 48 also list an enclosed outdoor space, which is the difference between a garden you can let a dog into and one you cannot.

The 48 that take dogs

Bank End Lodge

Kirkby-in-Furness, Cumbria

Bank End Lodge

Sleeps 10 · 5 beds

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £1475 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Barn Hey

Allithwaite, near Cartmel, Cumbria

Barn Hey

Sleeps 8 · 4 beds

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £1328 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Bonscale Barn

Watermillock, Cumbria

Bonscale Barn

Sleeps 6 · 3 beds

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £1053 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Mount Pleasant

Tebay, near Penrith, Cumbria

Mount Pleasant

Sleeps 2 · 1 bed

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £658 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Rose House

Mealsgate, Cumbria

Rose House

Sleeps 22 · 9 beds

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £4526 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Sharp Edge

Threlkeld, near Keswick, Cumbria

Sharp Edge

Sleeps 2 · 1 bed

  • Dogs
  • Hot tub

Prices on the merchant site

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

Woodhaven

Grange over Sands, near Cartmel Fell, Cumbria

Woodhaven

Sleeps 8 · 4 beds

  • Dogs
  • Enclosed outdoor space
  • Hot tub

from £1183 / week

Check dates

Checked 6 Sept

What this page does not tell you

Which walks take dogs. That is recorded for 12 of the 74 routes on this site. The other 62 say nothing either way, so check with the landowner before you set out, particularly in lambing season.

Access rules for dogs are not the same in Scotland as in England and Wales, and some of them change with the season. The Countryside Code, published jointly by Natural England and Natural Resources Wales, covers England and Wales. The Scottish Outdoor Access Code, which NatureScot has a duty to keep under review, covers Scotland. This page publishes neither, because a rule printed here in August is a rule somebody reads in March.

Each of the 27 refusals is on that property's own page, in the merchant's own words and next to the date somebody read them.

Everything in the Lake District Dog friendly in the other regions