My wife and I enjoyed our 2 night stay at this quiet inn. The well appointed room is very well kept by the staff. After a day of bicycle riding it was nice to come back to the comfortable room and sit on the patio overlooking the Delaware River. If you want to just sit around and relax and read - this is a perfect place for that too.

The 1740 House is in a pleasant quiet area with a lot of outdoor things to do - walking, biking, kayaking, swimming - and it's also a short drive to New Hope, Peddlers Village in Lahaska, Doylestown, and Rices Market on Tuesdays and Saturdays.

Our stay at the 1740 House was perfect. Lumberville is quiet, quaint and relaxing. We had a a lovely and clean double room (#11) with a fantastic view of the Delaware River. In the morning we were offered a delicious breakfast, too. Holly is an excellent hostess.

We can only assume that the large number of positive reviews of the 1740 House were written by relatives of the innkeeper. We have stayed at over 50 B&Bs and found this particular inn lacking in all niceties save one - the view of the Delaware River. While the room was clean and relatively comfortable, it offered few amenities. In the shower, the trickle of water was cold, but after five minutes or so , it actually bordered on luke warm. The sitting room and "tavern," which we were encouraged to use as our own living room, were sparse and lacking in any type of warmth. The alleged tavern boasted some bottled water, some Budweiser, and a bottle or two of wine. The room seemed not to have been occupied by anyone in quite some time. The magazines and menus for local restaurants provided in the sitting room were all several years old, and, in fact, two or three of the restaurants had closed a while ago.
Please note that the sitting room-tavern area conditions were rendered irrelevant, due to the fact that they were both closed each evening by 7 PM. We were disappointed to learn this when, upon returning to the 1740 House around 8 pm after dinner, we were locked out and unable to retrieve the wine we had chilled in the tavern refrigerator, hoping to relax with a drink or two before bedtime. A call to the innkeeper (at 8PM!) was not returned.
We checked out the next day and went just a few hundred yards north on the road to the Black Bass Inn. The view of the river was identical, but everything else was in stark contrast to what we had just experienced. Yes, it did cost a bit more, but the rooms, attitude, and most of all the service, were nothing short of superior. We had an absolutely wonderful time in a fabulous place. The Black Bass Inn is one of top B&Bs we have stayed in in over 25 years of traveling. If you're going to drive all this way anyway, we enthusiastically encourage you to use a teaspoon more gas and enjoy a wonderful experience there.

I brought my boyfriend to the 1740 House to celebrate his recent promotion. I am a former innkeeper myself, so I always see it as a treat to stay at a B&B whenever I can. The place was so clean, I told my boyfriend we could probably eat off the floors! Really, the cleanest place ever, which we loved. The innkeeper was very kind and she gave us a nice tour and offered assistance with dinner and things to do. We loved our room (Room 16), as we had a beautiful view and the decorating was really cute and there was a lot of attention to detail made. My only real complaint is that the innkeeper needs help. She was doing breakfast on her own, which astounded me as a former innkeeper! I used to run a B&B that had 5 less rooms than this one, and we had 3 people doing breakfast and even that was crazy sometimes. I don't know how she does it, and personally, it seemed a bit unfair. I hope the owners will give her some help because this place is a gem and I'd hate to see it deteriorate.

In closing, we loved this inn, and will definitely be back!