Royal Exeter Hotel

The Royal Exeter Hotel is a Grade II listed building located on Exeter Road. Originally built between 1811 and 1812 as Bournemouth's first villa, known as The Mansion or Exeter House, it was constructed for Lewis Tregonwell. The hotel features a central structure with a large machicolated and battlemented tower added around 1870. The exterior is designed in a stucco Tudor style, with hoodmoulds above all windows. It stands three storeys high with dormers, and the first and second floor windows have arched lights with glazing bars, mostly arranged in three-light configurations, though one window has seven lights. The two gables showcase pierced bargeboards added in 1876.

The ground floor is partially concealed by a sun lounge to the south and has extensive entrance foyers to the north, which include a polygonal lounge topped with an ogee lantern. Large wings were added symmetrically to the south in 1876 and 1886, also in the stucco-Tudor style. The east wing was heightened and extended to the north around 1900, and an additional four-storey southeast wing with dormers was added later along Exeter Park Road.