Exmouth's Royal Beacon Hotel has been put up for sale with a guide price of £2,500,000.
The 52-bedroom hotel, in a partly Grade II listed building, is currently owned by the Richardson Hotel Group.
The group has three other hotels; two in Torquay and another in Falmouth, Cornwall.
The Royal Beacon is being marketed by Savills of Exeter, which praises its 'quiet, elevated position in a Regency terrace' and its 'panoramic views over well-tended gardens and the Devon coastline, across the River Exe to the Dawlish Warren National Nature Reserve'.
The hotel's name reflects its history. Apparently the King of Saxony stayed there in 1844, leading to the 'royal' connection. 'Beacon' refers to its location in Exmouth - the elevated site was where the town's warning beacon was placed during Elizabethan times, ready to be lit at the first sign of an invasion by the Spanish Armada. The beacon is now represented by a modern structure outside the entrance to the hotel.
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