A row of wooden huts at The Winter Lodge dressed with garlands, tartan blankets and fairy lights

Friargate · Preston · Est. 2019

The 2026 Season.

The Winter Lodge returns in November 2026. The same wooden huts, the same canopy of ten thousand lights, and the same mug of something warm on Friargate.

Table bookings open soon

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The next season

Opening November back on Friargate for winter.

Opening

November 2026

Exact dates announced nearer the time

Table bookings

Open soon

Reservations are free when they go live

Walk-ins

Always welcome

The window stools are first come, first served

The Lodge

Six weeks a year we hand Friargate back to the Alps. In 2026 the huts go up again, the lights go back on, and Home Alone plays over the bar until December runs out.

All of it, again

What's coming Back

Nothing about the Lodge changes much, and that is rather the point. The huts come back out of storage, the garlands go up, the blankets get washed, and the mulled wine goes on.

Table bookings for the 2026 season are not open yet. When they are, they will be free to reserve, same as always. Until then the huts are first come, first served on the night.

The hutsUp to 8 per hut
BlanketsOn the house
Over the barChristmas movies, nightly
Christmas partiesPrivate hire available
Dress codeChristmas jumpers welcome
A cosy garlanded hut booth with tartan seats and fairy lights
The centre hut
Window huts in daylight looking out onto Friargate
Window seats
Home Alone playing on the screen above the fireplace inside the lodge
Movie corner

Last winter at the Lodge

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The Winter Lodge on Friargate painted across the snow-white floor
Fig. 01A warm welcome
Rows of wooden huts with tartan blankets and garlands
Fig. 02Hut row
A Winter Lodge red enamel mug of hot chocolate with marshmallows and a gingerbread man
Fig. 03Hot chocolate
Peroni, a bratwurst hot dog and a chocolate waffle on a wooden table
Fig. 04The full spread
A guest wrapped in a red blanket holding a Winter Lodge enamel mug
Fig. 05Cosy blankets
A whipped-cream topped festive drink on a tartan cloth
Fig. 06Something warm
Wooden huts by the window glowing with fairy lights

See you in
November.

Opening November 2026

Not open yet but the kettle is already on.

Table bookings for the 2026 season open soon. For Christmas parties and private hire, you can get a date in the diary now.

Find us

49–50 Friargate
Preston, PR1 2AT

Call us

01772 419 488

Parties & hire

Enquire here