The Cooden Beach Hotel, Cooden Sea Road
| The Cooden Beach Hotel, Cooden Sea Road | |
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| LL ref: | 186 |
| Start date: | 1931 |
| Architect: | unknown |
| Builder: | unknown |
| Original use: | Hotel |
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Opened in 1931, expanded in 1935, this hotel was once the private home of the De La Warr family where they entertained many notable guests including King George V and Queen Mary, the Duke of Windsor and Wallis Simpson, Winston Churchill and the young Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret. It was perfectly sited between the railway station and the beach.
It is an attractive building with wings either side the butterfly plan central entrance block which has interwar Tudor half timbering, square bay windows and hipped tiled roofs.