Burgh Island Hotel

Burgh Island Hotel
The Burgh Island Hotel in 2009
General information
Location	Burgh Island, Devon
Coordinates	50°16′47.06″N 3°53′52.94″W / 50.2797389°N 3.8980389°W / 50.2797389; -3.8980389Coordinates: 50°16′47.06″N 3°53′52.94″W / 50.2797389°N 3.8980389°W / 50.2797389; -3.8980389
Opening	1929
Design and construction
Architect	Matthew Dawson
Developer	Archibald Nettlefold
Other information
Number of rooms	25
Website
Official website

The Burgh Island Hotel is a hotel on Burgh Island, Devon in England.

In the 1890s, the music hall star George H. Chirgwin built a prefabricated wooden house on the island, which was used by guests for weekend parties. The island was sold in 1927 to the filmmaker Archibald Nettlefold of Nettlefold Studios, the heir to the Guest, Keen and Nettlefolds engineering firm, who built a more substantial hotel in the Art Deco style, which became a popular destination in the 1930s. Additions were made through the 1930s, including a room created from the captain's cabin of the warship HMS Ganges (1821). The hotel is now a Grade II Listed Building

During World War II, the hotel was used as a recovery centre for wounded RAF personnel. The top two floors of the hotel were damaged by a bomb during the conflict. Despite being repaired, it suffered a period of post war decline after being converted to self-catering apartment accommodation. The hotel was restored during the early nineties by Tony and Beatrice Porter.

Burgh Island Hotel is linked to the crime novelist Agatha Christie, as it inspired the settings for both And Then There Were None and the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil Under the Sun.The Beatles used the hotel when they were playing a concert in Plymouth.Noël Coward visited the hotel, intending to stay three days and ended up staying three weeks. Other guests who have reputedly used the hotel include Edward and Mrs. Simpson and it is said that Eisenhower and Churchill met there in the weeks leading up to the D-Day invasion.