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Moorland Hotel
HAYTOR • DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK • DEVON • TQ13 9XT
View towards hotel from Haytor Rock
Moorland Hotel HAYTOR • DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK • TQ13 9XT
“34 bedroom country hotel at the foot of Dartmoor’s iconic Haytor Rocks” 34 en suite letting bedrooms Hotel lounge bar, restaurant and function room Tinpickle and Rhum café brasserie 2 bedroom flat Extant permission to convert stables and staff accommodation into 4 residential units Far reaching southerly views to the sea and north over the moors Adjoining the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre Bovey Tracey 4 miles • Exeter 20 miles • Plymouth 30 miles (all distances are approximate) In all approximately 10.78 acres (4.36 ha)
savills.co.uk Savills Exeter The Forum, Barnfield Road, Exeter EX1 1QR Tel: 01392 455700 [email protected] [email protected]
LOCATION Moorland sits at the base of the unmistakable Haytor Rocks within Dartmoor National Park, which covers 953 square kilometres. National Parks UK reports that Dartmoor attracts 2.4 million visitors per year, with an aggregate spend within the park of £111 million per year. The village of Haytor is located on the eastern side of Dartmoor, easily accessible from Bovey Tracey and the A38 Devon Expressway. Exeter, with an International Airport and mainline railway station with direct routes to London is 20 miles to the north east. To the south are the attractive South Hams and award winning beaches of South Devon.
THE PROPERTY Moorland was purpose built as a hotel in 1887 for tourists visiting Haytor. The hotel offers accommodation over the ground, first and second floors, with bedrooms enjoying views towards the sea to the south, and over the moors to the north and west.
SITUATION The Moorland Hotel occupies a prime position adjoining the Dartmoor National Park Haytor Visitor Centre. The Visitor Centre attracts 56,000 visitors p.a. with 60,000 cars p.a. using the lower car park. A covenant prevents the Visitor Centre from competing with the Moorland Hotel business and therefore the centre does not have a cafe or restaurant facility.
HISTORY 2016 marked the centenary of Agatha Christie arriving at the Moorland Hotel for two weeks to write her very first novel: The Mysterious Affair at Styles; “So to Dartmoor I went. I booked myself a room in the Moorland Hotel at Hay Tor. I think I learnt to love the moor in those days. I loved the Tors and the heather and all the wild part of it away from the roads”. Much later, horses from the hotel stables were recruited to star in the film ‘Knights of The Round Table’. The stars, Ava Gardener, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer et al, took refuge in the Hotel during filming and a life size, stage set Camelot was built adjoining Hay Tor itself. More recently, Sir Tommy Flowers became a resident. A secret code breaker at Bletchley Park in WWII, he invented the Colossus machine, the worlds first programmable computer.
MAIN HOTEL
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
Public Areas
Stables
• Tinpickle & Rhum café brasserie, with circa 83 covers and dedicated bar servery, leading to
Currently offering a self contained 1 bedroom flat in part of the first floor and 5 staff bedrooms, this area offers substantial development potential.
• Reception • Bar Lounge with bar servery and around 40 covers • Hotel restaurant, circa 80 covers • Function Room, with dance floor and stage, seating up to 100 Accommodation • 34 en suite bedrooms comprising 30 double/ twin rooms and 4 single rooms. 5 of these rooms are on the ground floor with the remainder on the first and second floors • 2 bedroom flat, self contained Back of house • Commercial kitchen • Back office • Storage areas, laundry room, boot room
There is an extant and implemented planning consent to create 4 open market residential dwellings in a Mews style development, with separate car parking area and a wonderful outlook. Alternatively, planning permission could be sought to create one large residential dwelling, or self catering holiday accommodation, subject to obtaining the necessary planning permission. Gardens and grounds The spacious gardens, grounds and paddocks offer significant scope to develop further holiday lodges on site to complement the existing hotel accommodation. This would be subject to obtaining the necessary planning consents.
EXTERNAL Large tarmac car park with ample car parking. Attractive, well established gardens and grounds with lawned areas, mature woodland borders and small stream. Three paddocks with separate highway access. Two formal entrances together with a footpath to the Visitor Centre. Direct access onto the open moor. In all extending to 10.78 acres (4.36 ha).
GENERAL INFORMATION Services Mains electricity, mains drainage, tanked gas for central heating and cooking. Mains water supply. Licences Premises Licence Tenure Freehold TUPE The purchaser will be required to comply with the relevant legislation in respect of present employees. VAT Should the sale of the property or any right attached to it be deemed a chargeable supply for VAT purposes, such tax will be payable by the purchaser in addition to the sale price. Fixtures and Fittings Trade inventory will be included in the sale. Stock at valuation on completion. Local Authority Dartmoor National Park Authority, Parke, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9JQ T: 01626 832 093 Directions From the A38 head north on the A382 towards Bovey Tracey. Continue ahead at the first roundabout, then turn left at the second roundabout onto the B3387. After a mile take the left fork, then continue up the hill towards Haytor. After a further 3 miles the entrance to Moorlands is on the left next to a red phone box. Rateable Value Existing: Hotel and Premises: £36,000 Draft 2017 Revaluation - £44,000 We are informed by our client that following a further inspection by the local authority the revaluation will likely see a decrease in rateable value rather than increase.
Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. NOT TO SCALE.
Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)
MOORLAND HOTEL
VIEWINGS
Contact Martin Rogers: [email protected] DD:01392 455749 M:07972 000267
James Greenslade: [email protected] DD:01392 455719 M:07870 555893
We would remind you that this is a strictly confidential sale and ask that you use all discretion and not carry these details to accompany your viewing. Strictly by appointment with Savills. Prior to making an appointment to view we strongly recommend that you discuss any particular points which are likely to affect your interest in the property with a member of staff who has seen the property in order that you do not make a wasted journey.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1.They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. 17/01/17 PF. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087.
HAYTOR • DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK • DEVON • TQ13 9XT
View towards hotel from Haytor Rock
Moorland Hotel HAYTOR • DARTMOOR NATIONAL PARK • TQ13 9XT
“34 bedroom country hotel at the foot of Dartmoor’s iconic Haytor Rocks” 34 en suite letting bedrooms Hotel lounge bar, restaurant and function room Tinpickle and Rhum café brasserie 2 bedroom flat Extant permission to convert stables and staff accommodation into 4 residential units Far reaching southerly views to the sea and north over the moors Adjoining the Dartmoor National Park Visitor Centre Bovey Tracey 4 miles • Exeter 20 miles • Plymouth 30 miles (all distances are approximate) In all approximately 10.78 acres (4.36 ha)
savills.co.uk Savills Exeter The Forum, Barnfield Road, Exeter EX1 1QR Tel: 01392 455700 [email protected] [email protected]
LOCATION Moorland sits at the base of the unmistakable Haytor Rocks within Dartmoor National Park, which covers 953 square kilometres. National Parks UK reports that Dartmoor attracts 2.4 million visitors per year, with an aggregate spend within the park of £111 million per year. The village of Haytor is located on the eastern side of Dartmoor, easily accessible from Bovey Tracey and the A38 Devon Expressway. Exeter, with an International Airport and mainline railway station with direct routes to London is 20 miles to the north east. To the south are the attractive South Hams and award winning beaches of South Devon.
THE PROPERTY Moorland was purpose built as a hotel in 1887 for tourists visiting Haytor. The hotel offers accommodation over the ground, first and second floors, with bedrooms enjoying views towards the sea to the south, and over the moors to the north and west.
SITUATION The Moorland Hotel occupies a prime position adjoining the Dartmoor National Park Haytor Visitor Centre. The Visitor Centre attracts 56,000 visitors p.a. with 60,000 cars p.a. using the lower car park. A covenant prevents the Visitor Centre from competing with the Moorland Hotel business and therefore the centre does not have a cafe or restaurant facility.
HISTORY 2016 marked the centenary of Agatha Christie arriving at the Moorland Hotel for two weeks to write her very first novel: The Mysterious Affair at Styles; “So to Dartmoor I went. I booked myself a room in the Moorland Hotel at Hay Tor. I think I learnt to love the moor in those days. I loved the Tors and the heather and all the wild part of it away from the roads”. Much later, horses from the hotel stables were recruited to star in the film ‘Knights of The Round Table’. The stars, Ava Gardener, Robert Taylor, Mel Ferrer et al, took refuge in the Hotel during filming and a life size, stage set Camelot was built adjoining Hay Tor itself. More recently, Sir Tommy Flowers became a resident. A secret code breaker at Bletchley Park in WWII, he invented the Colossus machine, the worlds first programmable computer.
MAIN HOTEL
DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
Public Areas
Stables
• Tinpickle & Rhum café brasserie, with circa 83 covers and dedicated bar servery, leading to
Currently offering a self contained 1 bedroom flat in part of the first floor and 5 staff bedrooms, this area offers substantial development potential.
• Reception • Bar Lounge with bar servery and around 40 covers • Hotel restaurant, circa 80 covers • Function Room, with dance floor and stage, seating up to 100 Accommodation • 34 en suite bedrooms comprising 30 double/ twin rooms and 4 single rooms. 5 of these rooms are on the ground floor with the remainder on the first and second floors • 2 bedroom flat, self contained Back of house • Commercial kitchen • Back office • Storage areas, laundry room, boot room
There is an extant and implemented planning consent to create 4 open market residential dwellings in a Mews style development, with separate car parking area and a wonderful outlook. Alternatively, planning permission could be sought to create one large residential dwelling, or self catering holiday accommodation, subject to obtaining the necessary planning permission. Gardens and grounds The spacious gardens, grounds and paddocks offer significant scope to develop further holiday lodges on site to complement the existing hotel accommodation. This would be subject to obtaining the necessary planning consents.
EXTERNAL Large tarmac car park with ample car parking. Attractive, well established gardens and grounds with lawned areas, mature woodland borders and small stream. Three paddocks with separate highway access. Two formal entrances together with a footpath to the Visitor Centre. Direct access onto the open moor. In all extending to 10.78 acres (4.36 ha).
GENERAL INFORMATION Services Mains electricity, mains drainage, tanked gas for central heating and cooking. Mains water supply. Licences Premises Licence Tenure Freehold TUPE The purchaser will be required to comply with the relevant legislation in respect of present employees. VAT Should the sale of the property or any right attached to it be deemed a chargeable supply for VAT purposes, such tax will be payable by the purchaser in addition to the sale price. Fixtures and Fittings Trade inventory will be included in the sale. Stock at valuation on completion. Local Authority Dartmoor National Park Authority, Parke, Bovey Tracey, Devon, TQ13 9JQ T: 01626 832 093 Directions From the A38 head north on the A382 towards Bovey Tracey. Continue ahead at the first roundabout, then turn left at the second roundabout onto the B3387. After a mile take the left fork, then continue up the hill towards Haytor. After a further 3 miles the entrance to Moorlands is on the left next to a red phone box. Rateable Value Existing: Hotel and Premises: £36,000 Draft 2017 Revaluation - £44,000 We are informed by our client that following a further inspection by the local authority the revaluation will likely see a decrease in rateable value rather than increase.
Ordnance Survey © Crown Copyright 2017. All rights reserved. Licence number 100022432. NOT TO SCALE.
Reproduced from the Ordnance Survey. Not to Scale mapping with permission of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office © Crown copyright (100041908)
MOORLAND HOTEL
VIEWINGS
Contact Martin Rogers: [email protected] DD:01392 455749 M:07972 000267
James Greenslade: [email protected] DD:01392 455719 M:07870 555893
We would remind you that this is a strictly confidential sale and ask that you use all discretion and not carry these details to accompany your viewing. Strictly by appointment with Savills. Prior to making an appointment to view we strongly recommend that you discuss any particular points which are likely to affect your interest in the property with a member of staff who has seen the property in order that you do not make a wasted journey.
IMPORTANT NOTICE Savills, their clients and any joint agents give notice that: 1.They are not authorised to make or give any representations or warranties in relation to the property either here or elsewhere, either on their own behalf or on behalf of their client or otherwise. They assume no responsibility for any statement that may be made in these particulars. These particulars do not form part of any offer or contract and must not be relied upon as statements or representations of fact. 2. Any areas, measurements or distances are approximate. The text, photographs and plans are for guidance only and are not necessarily comprehensive. It should not be assumed that the property has all necessary planning, building regulation or other consents and Savills have not tested any services, equipment or facilities. Purchasers must satisfy themselves by inspection or otherwise. 17/01/17 PF. Kingfisher Print and Design. 01803 867087.
