My wife and I stayed 3 nights, visiting the area for a wedding. Location is excellent, overlooking Appleby and close to the centre. The food and the service overall was good, but with exceptions. The things which brought our rating down was reception and the rooms. My wife has a dietary requirement and I rang reception a few days before arrival to go through it. On arrival none of this dietary information had been passed to the kitchen. On explaining directly to the kitchen they handled it well. Check in itself was slow, having to repeat information I had given in the earlier telephone call. The biggest issue was the room quality for the star rating. We were put in an upstairs room in the coach house, an external annexe to the hotel. The room was small and shabby. At first the cold water did not work, but after a visit from the manager he got it going. Then the shower would not work properly, with at first only cold water. Then suddenly there was a surge of really hot water causing scalding to my skin. We asked to move rooms, and one was found for the next day. We stayed in the original room that night and it was very hot and opening windows resulted in high road noise from the nearby A road. A poor room and we got no sleep. We also had the stress of changing rooms on a day of the wedding. The next room was on the ground floor, much larger, with good ventilation. However, it was tired and very dull. Our annexe rooms we regarded as poor quality for what appears a good hotel.