THE landlady of Britain's highest pub is looking for someone with "stamina, eccentricity and love" to buy the business after announcing it is for sale on social media.

Louise Peace, 52, posted on Facebook that she is selling the Tan Hill Inn, in North Yorkshire, for £900,000 after running it with her husband, Mike, since 2005.

The isolated pub, where a "solitary inn" was noted to stand in a 1586 guide book, stands at 1,732ft (528m) in the Yorkshire Dales and it is regularly snowed in during winter storms.

Mrs Peace is the third longest-running landlady in the history of the pub, which stands on the Pennine Way and its popular with people seeking glimpses of the Northern Lights, and said she has been snowed in around 50 times, for between three and 11 days.

She has already had inquiries from four potential buyers and said some people had suggested it could become a community pub.

She said: "It needs somebody with stamina, eccentricity and love. It needs a nice family network, it's a fantastic place, it needs a family that can pass it on to the next generation. It warms your cockles, it's an amazing place."

The landlady, who said she has been known to tell customers to pull their own pints and cook their own meals, said she bought the inn in a "mad moment".

But, despite claiming to "hate pubs", Mrs Peace said she will miss the business when she leaves to join her husband in retirement at their home in Somerset.

She said: "It's like having a child. You love it and nurture it, then it's time for them to move on and you wish them all the best. You can't not love Tan Hill. You can't not miss it, you really can't. It's in your blood. But I still have to say 'cheerio' and let someone else take it on to the next level."

In November 2016, pop band Scouting For Girls were trapped in the pub by snow after a gig to raise money for Children In Need, while around 60 guests were forced to spend three days there in January 2010 after being stranded on New Year's Eve.

In 2008, the Arctic Monkeys swapped sell-out arena tours for a 30-minute jam session in the pub and the couple put the business up for sale for offers of about £1.1m, saying they had been hoping for the quiet life and the pub had become "too busy".

The year before Kentucky Fried Chicken backed down in a trademark dispute after telling the pub to remove the term "family feast" from a description of its Christmas Day menu on its website.