Lock's Victorian Tea Rooms and Gardens

Lock's Victorian Tea Room and Gardens

Lock's Victorian Tea Room and Gardens in Dunster take a little bit of finding! We walked up and down the High Street, and still couldn't see how ti access them, so we went into another shop, and asked for more directions.

"Ah!" we were told, "No, they are not immediately visible. Walk a few yards further down the street, and you will see a little alley - you have to go down there, to the end, and you'll find a little courtyard, and the Tea Rooms!"

So we followed this advice, turned right down the alley and a few seconds later, found ourselves by Lock's Tea Rooms - everything opens out, and the Tea Room is housed in the old Victorian School Room, with gardens on the other side of the building.

We decided to eat indoors, in the school room, and ordered our cream tea - with scones and delicious, home-made strawberry jam.

 

 

It is a wonderful venue; whilst we indulged our passion for cream teas, we also imagined all the children in Victorian times, sitting at their desks in this small room, with a stern schoolmistress standing at the front, expecting everyone to be obedient and paying attention whilst being taught the 3 Rs.

Behind us was the old school bell and, in my imagination, I could still hear it being rung, summoning the children to classes, and again at going home time, to signal the end of the school day. What a superb atmosphere in which to enjoy a cream tea; although I suspect food in the days of the children being taught here was not so pleasant or plentiful. 

For us, it is now certainly a place to keep marked in the diary as somewhere we will return to, on a future visit to Dunster.