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 The gas fires in every room have been upgraded to radiators, and the basins have been replaced by en-suite facilities.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.
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 Swinging Sixties - Blue Nun all round!
