A guest house in the Lake District has been sold for a price of almost £1m.

Rum Doodle guest house in Sunny Bank Road, Windermere, has been sold from an asking price of £915,000 by the hotels team at global agency Colliers International.

Sellers Gregor Stewart and Emma Hawley are leaving to undertake another project in the hospitality sector and the property - which has nine en-suite bedrooms and a three-bedroom owners’ cottage - has been purchased by Steven and Tina Salt, who are moving from Maidstone, Kent.

The property was built in 1879 as a house and surgery for the local doctor and called Braemont House.

Its name was changed to Rum Doodle by the sellers, after a mountaineering spoof novel by W. E. Bowman, inspired by the author’s holidays in the Lake District in the 1950s.

Haydn Spedding, associate director, hotels agency at the Manchester office of Colliers International, secured the sale.

He said there had been “a very busy spring market” for such guest house transactions in the Lake District National Park.