Mont Dore Residential Hotel

Advertisment from Mate's Illustrated Bournemouth 1886

Bournemouth, Hants - Sale of the important Freehold Property, being the celebrated and highly successful Residential Hotel and Bath Establishment known as The Mont Dore, Bournemouth. With possession, offering to capitalists, syndicates, and hotel proprietors an opportunity seldom found.

MESSRS. CHADWICK are instructed by the Mortgagees to SELL by Public AUCTION, on Friday, the 11th day of June, at the Auction Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, in the City of London, at 2 o clock, this valuable and important FREEHOLD PROPERTY, comprising the large and commodius residential hotel, with extensive suite of baths, surrounded by grounds between three and four acres in extent, which include four full-sized tennis courts and bowling green, laid out with great taste and so as to retain the natural charm of the pine trees, of mature growth, which constitute so attractive and characteristic a feature of the neighbourhood. The hotel is of handsome elevation in the Italian style, recently most substantially erected by Messrs. E.C. Howell and Son, the well-known firm of builders of London and Bristol. It contains ball or concert room, spacious dining, drawing, reading, billiard, and smoking rooms, with extensive administrative offices and 120 bed and sitting rooms, many of them overlooking the sea. The property commands beautiful views of forest and marine scenery, and overlooks the Bournemouth public gardens, which extend from the sea, from which the Mont Dore is distant about 500 yards. The extensive baths, which are placed in a separate building adjoining the hotel, are most complete, and have been erected almost regardless of cost. They include Turkish baths with all the most modern improvements, and reported to be the best in England, medicated, sea water, plunge, and almost every other description of bath, a direct service of sea water is laid on from the sea, and every facility is possessed for successfully carrying on the course of treatment which has been found so effectual where practised at Mont Dore. Auvergne. The establishment has attracted a large number of the best class of visitors ever since it was opened and Bournemouth being one of, if not the most favourite and prosperous seaside resorts in this country, a continuance and, if possible, an increase of success is confidently expected in the future. The property offers to capitalists, hotel proprietors, and others a thoroughly sound and lucrative investment, and will be sold with possession on completion of the purchase. Fuller and detailed particulars can be obtained at the Mart, Tokenhouse-yard, E.C.; of Messrs. Benson and Carpenter, Solicitors, Bristol ; and of Messrs Chadwick, 17, Parliament-street, Whitehall, and 34 St. Martins Lane, W.C.

Extract from The Times newspaper around 1890