Imperial Hotel, Torquay (1867)

J. W. Hill & Co.'s historical and business directory of Torquay. London and Torquay: J. W. Hill & Co., 1869-70. p. 4.The Torquay Hotel Company, Limited, are the Proprietors of the "Imperial Hotel," the largest and most noble structure in this part of the country, which has been found necessary to meet the large and annually increasing demands made for hotel accommodation in Torquay during the season; it is fitted up in the most complete manner with every appliance that can add to the comfort or convenience of visitors. The site is excellent, perfectly sheltered from the East and North; the principal front is open to the gentle wind of the South and the vivifying power of the sun while the sea bathes the rocks on which it stands; the building would command the attention and invite of good taste in a less worthy situation than "the Cove." The hotel is 120 feet in front, 90 feet deep, and 90 feet high; the interior arrangements are of the most complete description, with noble coffee-room, billiard-room, reading-room, and card-room, nearly fifty sitting-rooms, and a proportionate number of bedrooms en suite, is now open, and under the experienced and well-known management of Mr. Thomas Webb, in whose hands its capabilities will attain rank as "The first-class Family Hotel."[Text may be taken from a different source or edition than that listed as the source by Somers Cocks.]

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Rock & Co. ; no. 5682. 9 Aug 1867