Robinsons Brewery unveils new look for Crown Inn, Coniston

Robinsons Brewery’s Crown Inn in Coniston in the Lake District is ready to reopen after significant investment to create a new look and feel for the pub.

As well as a new look, the Crown Inn relaunches with a brand new food offering for locals and visitors alike.

There are also thirteen guest bedrooms to enjoy, including a family-sized room for up to six people and a new ground-floor accessible suite with parking outside. If you’re lucky to get a room at the back of the Inn, you can wake up to the breath-taking view of The Old Man of Coniston from the window.

Those who’ve passed by or visited the Crown Inn previously may be familiar with the slate entrance porch at the front of the building; this porch has been dismantled to make space for a cosy private dining area, seating up to eight guests. The slate from the old porch has been creatively repurposed to create the pub’s new feature fireplace.

The new look Crown Inn boasts artistic flair and local inspiration you can see across both the pub restaurant and bedrooms. The colour scheme features relaxing earthy greens, reds, greys, and neutrals mimicking the sights of the fells in the backdrop of the pub.

The pub also pays homage to local names such as the Swallows & Amazons writer Arthur Ransome and the world land and water speed record breaker, Donald Campbell who broke the water speed record four times on Coniston Water. The chosen woodland wallpaper is part of The Brantwood collection, one of Coniston’s iconic listed buildings and home to art critic, the late John Ruskin, which the wallpaper is named after.

Alongside Robinsons’ desire to create greener pubs and inns, one of the companies’ in-house designers has sustainably sourced and upcycling approximately 70% of the fixtures and fittings, visible in elements such as our bar furniture which has that all-important rustic countryside feel, and the upcycling of the pub’s existing wooden features.