The history of the Torcroft Hotel 
The hotel was built in the mid 1850s and is typical of the large villas found in the area, with its pillars, cream stucco exterior and generously proportioned rooms. A brochure from 1937 declares the ‘you will find comfort, cleanliness, efficiency without fuss, and a cuisine that is outstanding’.  
 
We hope that we can still meet this description today. The gas fires in every room have been upgraded to radiators, and the basins have been replaced by en-suite facilities. Unfortunately we can’t keep the same price of 3 guineas of day or 9/- shillings a day at Easter, but we aim to provide good value for money.  
The front view of the Torcroft Hotel from the 1937 brochure.
Thanks to Margery Stevens in Australia, for sending us the original brochure that her parents kept from their honeymoon stay at the Torcroft Hotel in 1937. The exterior has hardly changed at all. 
The Torcroft has been a hotel for many years. Here is a photograph of the Dining Room in the 1937 brochure.
The old bar of the Torcroft Hotel, as shown in an old brochure. The new bar will replace it in the summer of 2010.
The Swinging Sixties - Blue Nun all round! 
Torcroft Hotel, 28-30 Croft Road, Torquay, Devon TQ2 5UE | Tel: 01803 298292 | Fax: 01803 291799 
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