Jamaica Inn Sold To Coaching Inn Group For £8M
A new chapter is about to be written on possibly England’s most famous inn.
The Jamaica Inn at Bolventor in Cornwall is connected to author Daphne du Maurier and her tale of Cornish smuggling. And named; The Jamaica Inn!
Selling Jamaica Inn after 8 years.
Located in the middle of Bodmin Moor this haunting grey granite edifice was made so popular by her fictional yarn. Announcements have just made that it sold for around £8million.
Snapping up the Inn is the Coaching Inn Group based in Lincolnshire.
Coaching Inn Group Grab Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn
Thus now, expanding the group to around 30 hotels.
Daphne du Maurier’s Jamaica Inn sold.
Head of Operations Adam Charity said: “We have admired it from afar and knew that it would be a great fit for our company business model if it came up for sale”.
“Historically it must be one of the famous of inns within the country. It links to Daphne du Maurier and the tales of smuggling. We love that link into local history. Plus, there has been so many films and television dramas either featuring the property or mentioning it in some ways”.
Haunting Jamaica Inn bar?
“Firstly from a visitors prospective nothing will change in the short term. Secondly, the group will keep trading it as it has done so successfully in recent years. Thirdly, there may well be changes coming to further enhance the 36 bedrooms and some back of house facilities. However, we will not be changing the history of its famous bar, museum or farm shop”.
Over recent years the inn has expanded from a 17 bedroom coaching style inn. Growing, into a thriving and more modern ‘stop off’ on the main A30 road route to west Cornwall.
This addition makes three. As well as the Jamaica Inn the group have also acquired, The Moorland Hotel on Dartmoor, Devon and The Swan Hotel, Wells, Somerset.
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These the latest acquisitions now boost their total to 30. Operating now in the North, the Midlands, the South and also in Wales.
An icon sold in Cornwall.
Returning to Bodmin Moor, with winter on its way. Dense mist and fog or driving rain often descend around this remote stop. Maybe you think twice? Here she brings the tale to life as at such a time, somehow it really seems to be true!
Certainly, you can picture wreckers and smugglers heading to the inn to trade and sell ill gotten goods. Mostly under cover of the mucky mists. Here located, well away from the eyes of the revenue or excise men that they left on the coast.
Smuggler haunt.
Of its ghosts? There have over the years been sightings. Are you brave enough to book in? Proving popular with those keen to engage with them. Ensuring that they book certain rooms in the older part of the inn too.
Jamaica Inn built in 1750 has been open to ghost hunters both for weekends or late night investigations.
The main areas of interest are The Smugglers’ Bar, The Stable Bar (now the museum), upstairs in the older bedrooms.
