Barrow House is a late 18th-century mansion situated on the eastern shore of Derwentwater in Borrowdale within the Lake District National Park, in the county of Cumbria, England.

Pocklington constructed various buildings on Derwent Isle which upset many of the local population, with William Wordsworth describing them as “mere puerilities”.

[4] The house was advertised for sale at a price of £1,250,000 in late 2011 and was described as having “spacious accommodation totalling 947 square metres (10,190 square feet) set in 6 hectares (14.8 acres) of grounds including woodlands, grassland and a waterfall.”[5] In November 2011 Barrow House was purchased by local businessman John Snyder who had set up a charitable organisation (Derwentwater Youth Hostel Ltd.) to keep the house running as an independent hostel with the YHA agreeing to the proposal that it should retain the name of Derwentwater Youth Hostel.

[7] As from November 2011 the hostel was no longer part of the YHA organisation: it was managed by Tim Butcher as a non-profit-making charitable trust .

[9][10] The house has white painted stucco walls with a hipped graduated green slate roof with two dormer windows.