Furness Abbey Hotel

[2] By the 19th century, having gone through several ownerships after the Preston family had departed, the manor house was empty and semi-derelict until it was purchased by the Furness Railway in 1847.

[3] The Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley converted the ruined manor house into a hotel to accommodate visitors to the Abbey.

[4] The hotel was extended as part of an integrated plan in the 1860s by E. G. Paley, to link it to the newly built Furness Abbey railway station.

[2] In 1953–54 the main hotel building was demolished, leaving the northern wing of Paley's overall design, subsequently to become the Tavern.

Listing information and several architectural references conflate the origins of the Abbey Tavern and the wider site -viz: it "represents a fragment of a substantial hotel (sic) that served the Furness Railway";[1] Matthew Hyde and Nikolaus Pevsner comment that "it is a pity no more is left of so tantalising a building".