Glendorgal Hotel

The Glendorgal Hotel started as a seaside retreat in a cottage orné style, built by Francis Rodd IV of Trebartha in 1850.[1][2][3] It was sold to Arthur Pendarves Vivian who later bought a large swathe of Porth Beach and Trevelgue Head to go with the house.[4] Following a dispute with the architect Silvanus Trevail, who was planning a large new housing estate at Porth.[5] Vivian sold the house to the sitting tenant Sir Richard Trevithick Tangye in 1882, and it became the seat of the Tangye Baronetcy in 1912.[1][6][7] They changed its setting, making its grounds an 'integral' and 'picturesque' part of the wider setting of the house. After 1950 the house was converted into a seasonal hotel and restaurant.[1][3]

The original building was surrounded and partly over-built with later 20th century additions and its internal spaces reordered.[1]

In 1911 Glendorgal was visited by two royal Princes; Edward (Edward VIII) and Albert (George VI).[2] In 1918 the First World War came very close to the Glendorgal and tea parties were held on the veranda for injured soldiers.[2]

In 1950 Sir Richard Tangye's grandson, Nigel Tangye came into sole possession of the property and, with his wife Lady Marguerite Tangye, opened it as a summer season hotel and restaurant in 1950.[1][2][8]