Glendale Guest House

Glendale Guesthouse is a very beautiful and extremely spacious Victorian built town house, centrally located in Penrith. Constructed from traditional Cumbrian Red Sandstone, built sometime in the mid 1800’s. The plot on which number four (Glendale) would be built, at that time stood in the wooded grounds of the ‘Wordsworth Buildings’ and close to the Public Baths and ‘Wash Houses’ located on ‘Hunters Lane’. The house was understood to have originally been built for the ‘Edington Family’ with Daniel Charles Edington, born in 1866 in Edinburgh, trained as a Doctor. He was a prominent member of the local community, overseeing gruesome autopsies which were widely reported in the newspapers of the time. The Doctor shared his home at 4 Portland Place, with his wife Frances and son, who’s birth at the house was announced in the Scotsman in 1899 – the very first owner/occupants of this gorgeous Victorian house.