Welcome to Bendale Cottage

A warm welcome awaits you at West House Farm, Dearham, where we offer high quality self catering accommodation at our newly completed, purpose built holiday home – Bendale Cottage.

West House Dearham can offer you the best of both worlds, the Lake District to the east and the Solway coast to the west. We have views across the Solway to Criffell on the Scottish Coast in one direction and views of the Lake District fells in the other.

West House is a modern dairy farm in the heart of the countryside. The farm is farmed in an environmentally friendly manner. Each field is linked to the farm by lanes and farm tracks. The lanes are hedge lined with oak, ash, sycamore and beech trees; and are full of wildlife. Most fields have streams running through them and aquatic invertebrates including freshwater shrimp and mayfly are present. Deer and foxes often cross the fields and have been seen on several occasions form the farm house and gardens.

We have spotted several red squirrels over the past few months and are trying to encourage them to come to our feeding stations.

We have an abundance of wild birds which frequent our gardens. We have bird tables and nesting boxes around the farmyard. Visitors can feed the birds on the patio outside their lounge.

We have information leaflets on the farms wildlife in the cottage and visitors are encouraged if they desire to walk the farm lanes and boundaries. The tracks are suitable for walking, horse riding and mountain bikes.

Stabling is available for rent on the farm if visitors wish to bring their own horses with them on holiday.