Belsfield Hotel

Belsfield Hotel is an early 19th-century and Victorian large mansion located on Kendal Road in Bowness. It occupies a prominent position overlooking the lake from a hilltop and is designed in the Italianate style. The front facing the lake features 13 windows on each of its three storeys, with a stucco finish, a heavy modillioned cornice, and quoins. Some of the windows are round-headed, and there is a verandah on the lake front supported by slender iron columns and topped with iron cresting. At the northern end of the front, there is a four-storey square tower and a three-storey bay window. The windows are adorned with moulded stone architraves.

Inside, the hotel boasts plaster ornamented and gilt ceilings, friezes, and cornices, along with plaster panelled walls and door frames. The doors are painted and feature floral cartouches. The iron staircase has balustrading with a mahogany handrail. The current bar area showcases an Adam-style ceiling with octagonal panelling and painted ovals.