Tarn House Skipton
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Tarn House Country Inn
The Tarn House Country Inn is situated at the top of the hill and proudly overlooks the leisure park. The Inn, originally a Manor house with extensive grounds and gatehouse was built around 1650 AD and then extended in the mid 1800's. The house was converted to a beautiful hotel in the 1970's.
The Country Inn offers Bed & Continental Breakfast and features 10 luxury period rooms (3 of them with four poster beds!) and most with magnificent views over the Yorkshire Dales. All rooms have ensuite bathrooms.
Previous Owners of Tarn House
Col. Garnett Orme JP was one of the owners of Tarn House from approx. 1863 until his death at Tarn House in 1890. This is a newspaper article recording his details.
DEATH OF COL. GARNETT-ORME J.P
We regret to record the death of Col. Garnett Orme, which took place about five o’clock on Monday afternoon at his residence, Tarn House Skipton. The deceased gentlemen had been ailing for the past seven years from kidney disease with complications, and his acute sufferings brought on from to time a state of great prostration and mental irritability.
Some time ago he was placed under the care of several physicians of high standing in London, but without any apparently good results, and in 1890 he came back to Tarn House, and from that time was under the more immediate attention of Dr Wylie, of Skipton.
Dr Wylie attended the deceased gentleman with great assiduity, and latterly the colonel seemed somewhat better than usual. Though confined to his room for several months previous to Friday last, he got up on that day, and went out into his garden for a short time. On the following day, however, more critical symptoms appeared, and he lingered on till Monday, when death terminated his painful sufferings.
The certified cause of death was Bright’s disease and kidney disease. Col. George Garnett-Orme, whose former name was Robinson, was the son of the late Mr William Robinson, of Lancaster, from which neighbourhood the family spring. He came to Skipton in 1863, and having acquired the practice of the late Mr Henry Alcock commenced life as a solicitor. He remained an active worker in his own profession, until the year 1881, when he disposed of his practice to the late Mr G Ernest Wright.
The firm afterwards became Messrs Wright, Charlesworth and Co. and is now carried on under the style of Messrs Wright, Charlesworths and Wilson. During the professional career of the deceased he acted for several years in the responsible capacity of Registrar of the Bradford County Court and arising out of that office, he was appointed District Registrar of the High Court of Justice for the Bradford district. He was succeeded in his office by Mr Edmund Lee, who still holds the position and is also a Skiptonian. Col. Garnett-Orme, after purchasing his practice in Skipton, married Miss Mary Orme, of Ronfield, near Clitheroe, of whom he has issue one son and five daughters. Mrs Garnett-Orme is the daughter of the Rev Edward Orme, and her mother’s name was Garnett. In 1885 the family adopted the surname of Garnett-Orme and have since continued to bear it. The present Tarn House was built by the deceased on the site of an old house bearing the same name.
During his active days Colonel Garnett-Orme was a keen sportsman and his figure was a well-known one in the hunting field and in following the Craven Harriers, of which for some time he was master. His horses were always noted for their high quality. He was an ardent lover of all field sports and coaching was a hobby which found favour in his eyes; and which enabled him to exhibit his powers of horsemanship to advantage.
The deceased derived his military title from his connection with the 3rd Volunteer Battalion Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment, in which he was first lieutenant, then captain, and then major, afterwards for many years he was in command of the battalion as lieutenant-colonel, finally being promoted to honorary colonel on the retirement from that position of Mr Walker Morrison of Malham Tarn, late Unionist M.P. for the Skipton Division. Colonel Garnett-Orme was a director of the Craven Bank Limited, and was on the Commission of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
In politics he was an enthusiastic Conservative, and, though partially prostrated, took the keenest interest in the result of the recent general elections. He was also one of the members of Mr Walter Morrison’s election committee, though, owing to his illness, he was unable to do anything personally to further Mr Morrison’s candidature. He took a warm interest in the establishment of the Craven Herald, and was one of its directors up to the time of his death.
The funeral of the deceased takes place today at Kendal, where the family have a burying place. The hearse containing the coffin was met at the top of Kairee Road by a number of prominent townsmen and proceeded through the town to the railway station, where the remains were conveyed to their last resting place by the 10.37 train. While the procession proceeded through the town the blinds of numerous places of business were closed as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased gentleman, the passing bell of the Parish Church being also tolled.
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