Dark skies and Cheviots: rural bliss

Ingram House is a tranquil 4-bedroom B&B set in the Northumberland National Park under a Gold Tier Dark Sky. Surrounded by farmland, it’s in a Cheviot valley dotted with Iron Age settlements: the area has been settled for ten thousand years.

Ingram House was built as a farmhouse in 1704, sympathetically extended into a family home and furnished with a selection of heirlooms. It has welcomed guests since 2010, many of whom return year after year.

Accommodation is in four guest bedrooms. The Garden Room is on the ground floor, with it’s own access and French doors to the garden: it has a superking double or twin beds and a luxurious en-suite shower. There are two rooms upstairs, both with en-suite bathrooms: one has a superking double/twin and the other is a double room with a half tester Elizabethan bed. There is a further double bedroom with its own private bathroom, that comes into its own when required by larger groups.

Aga-cooked breakfasts are served in the elegant dining room, which gives onto a small sitting area looking out to the garden. Ingredients are invariably fresh and local: some come from Ingram House’s own garden. This is also the setting for convivial evening meals, with menus designed to fit your taste.

Ingram House is set in two acres of landscaped gardens, with carefully tended flower borders and a restored summer house that guests are welcome to use. This is ideal in the summer to enjoy a cup of tea or several glasses of wine, and year-round is perfect – with a telescope or pair of binoculars – to experience the Gold Tier Dark Sky. Walks into the Cheviots are from the door. There is plenty of parking and for electric cars there’s a charger five minutes walk away, at Ingram Village Hall.