Palm Grove

Palm Grove offers a seasonal outdoor pool and sun terrace in Torquay, 550 yards from Meadfoot Beach. Guests can enjoy free WiFi and free private parking is available.

The rooms are fitted with a flat-screen TV. You will find a kettle in the room.

Palm Grove is located by the South West Coast Path. The property is 0.6 miles from Torquay Marina, and the Princess Theatre is 0.8 miles away. The Riviera International Centre is 1.4 miles from Palm Grove.

Information about the host

This beautiful and elegant Victorian Torquay Villa with its individual design was originally commissioned for a family home and was completed in 1857 it was later converted into a hotel. We believe it to have been built by John Tapley Harvey and William Harvey who built Meadfoot Crescent, which was commissioned in 1846. The Crescent is based on the Regency ideals of London and Brighton it later became Hesketh Crescent, after the birth of the first son to Maria Palk, daughter of Lord and Lady Hesketh and wife of Lawrence Palk. Robert Palk bought much of this part of Torquay on his return from India, but it was his son, Lawrence who inherited the estates who became the town's first speculative developer. He started selling plots on 99 year leases to the wealthy. So affluent were these new owners that not one building was erected without its own stables and coach house. The stables and coach house at Palm Grove were redeveloped in the 1960's to form two apartments.

Torquay is a seaside resort town on the English Channel in Devon, South West England. Known for beaches such as Babbacombe and cliffside Oddicombe, its coastline is nicknamed the English Riviera. Torquay Harbour near the town centre offers shops, cafes and a marina. Torre Abbey, a monastery founded in 1196, has art galleries and extensive gardens featuring plants from local native Agatha Christie's novels.