The Glendorgal Hotel is in
Newquay
Newquay ( ; kw, Tewynblustri) is a town on the north coast in Cornwall, in the south west of England. It is a civil parish, seaside resort, regional centre for aerospace industries, spaceport and a fishing port on the North Atlantic coast of ...
, Cornwall overlooking
Porth Beach.
History
The Glendorgal Hotel started as a seaside retreat in a cottage orné style, built by Francis Rodd IV of Trebartha in 1850.
It was sold to
Arthur Pendarves Vivian
Sir Arthur Pendarves Vivian (4 June 1834 – 18 August 1926) was a British industrialist, mine-owner and Liberal politician from the Vivian family, who worked in South Wales and Cornwall, and sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1885.
E ...
who later bought a large swathe of
Porth Beach and
Trevelgue Head to go with the house. Following a dispute with the architect Silvanus Trevail, who was planning a large new housing estate at
Porth
Porth ( cy, Y Porth) is a town and a community in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, within the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan, Wales. Lying in the Rhondda Valley, it is regarded as the gateway connecting the Rhondda Fawr and Rh ...
. Vivian sold the house to the sitting tenant
Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye in 1882, and it became the seat of the Tangye
Baronetcy in 1912.
They changed its setting, making its grounds an 'integral' and '
picturesque' part of the wider setting of the house. After 1950 the house was converted into a seasonal hotel and restaurant.
The original building was surrounded and partly over-built with later 20th century additions and its internal spaces reordered.
In 1911 Glendorgal was visited by two royal Princes; Edward (
Edward VIII
Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972), later known as the Duke of Windsor, was King of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of India from 20 January 19 ...
) and Albert (
George VI).
In 1918
the First World War
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, the United States, and the Ottoman Empire, with fightin ...
came very close to the Glendorgal and tea parties were held on the
veranda for injured soldiers.
In 1950
Sir Richard Tangye's grandson,
Nigel Tangye came into sole possession of the property and, with his wife
Lady Marguerite Tangye, opened it as a summer season hotel and restaurant in 1950.
["Continental atmosphere": Hilton, Victor (1963) ''The Bide-a-while Book''. Shaldon: Victor Hilton; pp. 53-54]
References
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Hotel buildings completed in 1850
Hotels in Cornwall