Derwent Island House

Derwent Island House is a Grade II listed 18th-century Italianate house located on the 7 acre Derwent Island, Derwent Water, Keswick, Cumbria, and within the ownership of the National Trust. It is leased as a non-public home, however is open to the public for five days in a year. The indoors is classical in fashion. Derwent Island changed into owned via Fountains Abbey and utilized by clergymen, but with the dissolution of the monasteries, it became property of the Crown in 1539.

In 1569, it changed into sold to the Company of Mines Royal who constructed a camp on the island wherein they stored animals, grew greens and brewed beer. In 1778 Joseph Pocklington offered the island and built a house, boathouse, fort and battery, and Druid circle folly on the land. Pocklington held annual regattas on the lake at which he fired off his cannon and the small citadel used for mock battles. Henry Marshall purchased the island in 1844 and employed architect Anthony Salvin to add a wing and a 3-storey tower to the residence. In 1951, Mr Marshall's grandson Denis Marshall gave the belongings to the National Trust. You can come to visit this place with your loved ones.