The Hotel Victoria 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,
United Kingdom and is near the cliffs above the
Great Western Beach. The Hotel first opened in June 1899.
History
in the years prior to 1897 Newquay Urban District Council envisaged development opportunities of building a grand hotel. They formed The Victoria Hotel Company Limited in 1897.
The hotel was designed by the Cornish architect, John Sansom, who was part of a practice in
Liskeard. He was responsible for designing a number of works in Cornwall, mostly around Liskeard, but also the Victoria in Newquay, the Porthminster Hotel in
St. Ives, and various schools and churches.
Construction of the hotel, by local builder C.R Bellingham, started in 1897 and was completed by May 1899, more than a year before the
Headland Hotel
The Headland Hotel is a Grade II listed building located in Newquay, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It was opened in June 1900 and is built on a prominent position overlooking Fistral Beach and Towan Head.
History
Silvanus Trevail’s Gr ...
, by rival architect
Sylvanus Trevail. The hotel officially opened on 1 June 1899.
The Hotel Victoria was built in the
Gothic Revival Style
Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...
, with ornate stonework, Victorian style balconies and a glass covered entrance cloister. The hotel was heated by Spencer's patent radiators. Mr Whitford was reported by a local newspaper as saying approximately £18,000 (£2.3 million today) was spent on exclusive
furnishings.
When originally built the hotel accommodated 100 guests and their servants in suites of apartments. In later years it has been reorganised and enlarged and now caters for more than 200 guests.
A feature of the Victoria was the lift that connected every floor to the bathing beaches below, claimed to be the only one in England.
References
{{Portal, Cornwall
Hotels in Cornwall
Newquay
Hotels established in 1899