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his expansion and redevelopment plans. From June 1989 the hotel has been in company ownership and Resort Hotels added an extension giving the property a further 42 en-suite bedrooms and a health club with an indoor swimming pool, spa pool, sauna and mini-gym. The restaurant was redecorated and extended and a new conservatory was built to replace the original one, which had been destroyed in the
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weekend. There are 55 bedrooms including three suites, named after Percy
Shelley, Anthony Bushby Bacon and Sir Richard Sutton. A new spa includes an outdoor pool, indoor hydrotherapy pool, sauna, steam room, gym and treatment rooms. The Retreat has two restaurants and a Courtyard with shops and a
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in 1949 and continued trading on this basis, linking Elcot with her other family business in London, The Surrey
Restaurant in Surrey St, London WC2. Mrs Weston ran it as a successful business until 1952 when it went into liquidation. The property remained empty for some ten years, until in 1967
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Harold Sterne and his wife, June, took the tenancy. They undertook a programme of development that lasted some 18 years. Mr & Mrs Sterne were given the opportunity to purchase the property outright in 1977 and they continued the business until deciding to retire in 1987.
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Richard’s main seat was Benham Park, and the land attached to Elcot at that time adjoined Benham Valence. Elcot Park was again let for a further 25 years to a prominent JP by the name of Richard Plaskett Thomas. He ran J Thomas & Co, Tea Brokers based in
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Hellen was fond of her brother Percy and in 1857, while she resided at Elcot, she wrote a series of letters about her memories of their childhood together. These letters became the key sources in the many biographies that have been published about the poet.
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Collection purchased the hotel in 2020 and carried out a comprehensive refurbishment. Renamed The Retreat at Elcot Park, the hotel re-opened in June 2022, with a ribbon cutting ceremony carried out by the
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Jarvis Hotels acquired the property in 1994, bedrooms and bathrooms were refurbished and a full kitchen re-fit gave the hotel the facility to host large events. In
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Retreat at Elcot Park is the second hotel from British hospitality brand The Signet Collection, and opened in Spring 2022. Housed in a Grade II-listed 18th-century building located near
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