Bovey Castle
| Bovey Castle | |
| Devon | |
|---|---|
 Bovey Castle | |
| Location | |
| Grid reference: | SX731844 |
| Location: | 50°38’46"N, 3°47’44"W |
| Village: | Moretonhampstead |
| History | |
| Built 1907 | |
| For: | Viscount Hambleden by Detmar Blow |
| country house | |
| Neo-Jacobean | |
| Information | |
| Condition: | Converted to a hotel |
| Owned by: | Eden Hotels |
Bovey Castle is a large early-20th-century mansion on the edge of Dartmoor, near Moretonhampstead in Devon. It is a Grade-II* listed building[1] and is now a hotel.
History
The house was built in 1907 to designs by Detmar Blow, for the second Viscount Hambleden (the son and heir of the Conservative politician and stationery magnate William Henry Smith).
By 1930, the house had become a hotel operated by the Great Western Railway, known as 'the Manor House Hotel'. In 1948 the railway was nationalised and so the hotel was taken over by the British Transport Commission. It was expanded under new ownership in the 1990s.
The house was purchased and refurbished by the entrepreneur Peter de Savary in 2003 and renamed 'Bovey Castle'. In 2006, de Savary sold 'Bovey Castle' to Hilwood Resorts. In 2014 it was sold to The Rigby Group plc as part of their Eden Hotel Collection.
Architecture
The main building was built in 1907 in Jacobean style, with a Great Hall into which a floor was inserted in the 1980s. The interior is of high quality, with panelled rooms and elaborately carved features. Extensions were built in the 1930s.[1] The garden front is set above terraces overlooking a lake and the River Bovey.
Golf
The hotel estate includes an 18-hole championship golf course that was designed by John Frederick Abercromby in 1926.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bovey Castle - British Listed Buildings