Assheton Arms Hotel Review, Downham, Lancashire

The attractive stone-fronted property, built as a coaching inn in the early 1800s, has Georgian-style sash windows and a large front terrace with wooden tables and bench seating offering a glorious view of Pendle Hill. Inside, it’s all flagstone flooring, oak settles and log burning stoves. Some of the antique furniture and hunting prints on the walls come from Downham Hall, the private estate of Ralph John Assheton, 2nd Baron Clitheroe, who also owns the hotel. Further prints hang in the hotel’s two restaurants, where there are low-beamed ceilings, two more open fires (one of them the original cooking stove) and tweed-covered seating.