Slated Hotel and Casino Resort

Informational pages for the Slated Hotel and Casino Resort — a Yorkshire greenstone country house above the Wythern beck, kept by the Wythern House Foundation as a country hotel since 1957.

The Hotel and the Quarry

Wythern House was raised in 1822 on a wooded shoulder above the Wythern beck, on the edge of the northern Yorkshire Dales, as the residence of the Wythern slate-merchant. The house was built in Yorkshire greenstone laid over local rubble, with dressed-slate window heads and a low slate-flagged forecourt set back from the lane. The Wythern workings were quarried for one hundred and twenty-two years, opened as a small private bench in 1814 and closed in the long mid-century retreat of English slate. The house stood quiet through the post-war years, kept briefly as a Methodist meeting house in the late 1940s, before passing to the present Foundation in 1957. The casino resort floor of the hotel occupies what was, at the beginning, the slate-cutting workshop of the house — a long, low-ceilinged room attached to the north range, where the slate-merchant and his foreman graded, squared, and stacked the dressed pieces brought up from the bench. The cast-iron grading tables of 1822 are still in place along the long north wall, and the slate-flagged floor is kept as it was.

This is the informational record for the Slated Hotel and Casino Resort at Wythern House. It is written and kept by the Wythern House Foundation, in plain language, for those who would like to know what the hotel is and what is asked of guests inside it. The house is a working country hotel; the casino resort floor is one room of the resort. These pages do not host wagers, hold accounts, or operate as a gambling platform — they describe a hotel and casino resort property as a building.

The hotel sits well above the beck, with the cut faces of the old workings still visible across the water on a clear winter morning. Reception is open from seven in the morning until eleven at night; the casino resort floor opens in the evening; the rest of the hotel keeps the hours of a country house in the Dales.

The hotel and resort in brief

For readers who prefer the facts gathered into one place, the Foundation keeps the following short register of the hotel, kept up to date by the duty manager each February. The casino resort floor referred to throughout these pages is a single restored room within a working country-house hotel, and is presented here as a feature of the property.

Property

Wythern House Hotel and Casino Resort

Built

1822, in Yorkshire greenstone over local rubble

Original use

Residence and grading workshop of the Wythern slate-merchant, 1822–1936

Converted

1957, by the Wythern House Foundation; cutting-room restoration completed 2014

Setting

South rim of the Wythern beck, northern Yorkshire Dales

Hotel rooms

Twenty-eight, including six fell-facing rooms in the east range

Casino resort floor

The cutting room, lower-ground floor, north range

Floor & finish

Original slate flags; cast-iron grading tables preserved; long-wall windows north over the beck

Reception hours

Seven in the morning to eleven at night

Check-in / check-out

From three in the afternoon; until eleven in the morning

Room rates

From £195 per night, breakfast included; fell-facing rooms from £295

Star rating

Four-star country house hotel, awarded 2015 (renewed 2023)

House dress

Quiet, considered; jacket preferred at dinner; no athletic wear after six

Parking

Cobbled forecourt off Old Quarry Lane, free; coach drop on request

Children

Welcome in the library, the fell garden, and the dining room; not on the casino resort floor

Six rooms of the property

Wythern House is a small house in a small valley. There are six features the duty manager will, on request, walk a new guest through after their bag is taken: a library, a fell garden, the dining room, the beck path, the forecourt, and the restored casino resort floor. Each is set down below as a feature of the property.

A walk through the hotel, in order of approach

What follows is the order in which the duty manager would walk a new guest through Wythern House Hotel and Casino Resort. Each room of the resort is set down here as a stratum — a layer in the bedded order of the house — with its name on the left in italic display and a small block of metadata on the right. The casino resort floor of the hotel is one stratum among several, presented as a room and never as an activity. Nothing on these pages is intended as inducement, instruction, or recommendation in play.

Frequently asked questions

The questions the duty manager is asked most often, with the answers she would give in person. They are reviewed in February each year and amended where the answer has shifted.

Question 01Is the casino resort floor open to anyone?

The Cutting Room is open in the evening to adult guests of the hotel and to members of the Foundation. We do not admit non-resident visitors except by prior arrangement with the duty manager, and we do not admit anyone under eighteen. The room is presented as a feature of the property, not as a gambling venue.

Question 02Are children welcome at the hotel?

Children are welcome in the library, the fell garden, the dining room, and the south wing bedrooms; the kitchen will keep an early supper for younger guests on request. Children are not admitted to the Cutting Room at any time of day.

Question 03Do you take dogs?

We take working dogs in the kennel attached to the south gate, with twelve hours’ notice so that fresh straw can be laid on arrival. We do not take dogs in the bedrooms or in the dining room. Cats and other pets cannot be accommodated.

Question 04Is breakfast included in the room rate?

Yes. A full breakfast is served in the dining room from seven thirty to ten in the morning every day of the year and is included in the room rate. Dinner is taken in two services at half past six and half past eight; the duty manager will reserve a table when the booking is confirmed.

Question 05How far in advance should I book?

Fell-facing rooms in the east range are usually held until about six weeks ahead in summer; the south wing rooms can ordinarily be had at a fortnight’s notice. Walk-ins are welcome but seldom accommodated in season. The duty manager keeps a short waiting register and will telephone if a room comes free.

Question 06What is the dress code?

Quiet and considered. Jacket preferred at dinner; no athletic wear in the dining room or on the casino resort floor after six. There is no formal dress requirement, and the duty manager has, in twenty years, never turned a guest away on the matter of clothes.

Question 07Is there Wi-Fi in the rooms?

There is. The hotel runs a single network across the bedrooms, library, and dining room. The Cutting Room is kept off the network by standing instruction of the Foundation. The password is on the card beside the bedside lamp; if the lamp is out, ring the desk.

Question 08What is your cancellation policy?

Bookings may be cancelled without charge up to seventy-two hours before the day of arrival; thereafter the first night is held against the deposit. Bookings made within seventy-two hours of arrival are pre-paid in full and are non-refundable, save by exception at the duty manager’s discretion. The full booking terms are sent in writing on confirmation.

Question 09Is the hotel accessible?

The ground floor — hall, library, dining room, fell garden — is reached by a ramp at the south gate, and one ground-floor bedroom in the south wing is held for guests who prefer not to climb. The Cutting Room is on the lower ground and reached by a stair-lift added in 2019. Please ring reception with any access requirement and the duty manager will plan the room before arrival.

Question 10Do you host weddings or conferences?

We do not. The Foundation keeps a short calendar of small events — a winter reading, a midsummer supper in the fell garden, a slate-trade lecture in the library each March — and these are listed on the board in the hall during the months they are held. The hotel is otherwise reserved for ordinary stays.