The new owners of a renowned North Yorkshire restaurant are to invest a further £1m to create a boutique hotel.
The award-winning Provenance Inns and Hotels Group acquired the Cleveland Tontine, between Northallerton and Stokesley, at the beginning of June and is already making plans to restore the inn to its former glory days.
The Tontine already has seven 5-star rated recently-refurbished bedrooms but Provenance Inns is exploring ways to add to these, subject to planning consent, with the refurbishment of a listed former coachhouse on the site.
Director Michael Ibbotson said: “The condition of the coachhouse has deteriorated over time and we felt that it provided a great opportunity to achieve two goals: to restore it and to be able to offer more rooms for our guests at this unique location on the edge of the North York Moors.”
The Tontine has a long established reputation for fine dining and has been acquired in line with Provenance Inns’ strategy of providing locally-sourced food at the heart of the communities it serves. It is the ninth acquisition for the Group, which also owns the West Park Hotel in Harrogate, the Carpenters Arms at Felixkirk and the Black Bull at Moulton.
Provenance Inns and Hotels offers 5-star rated bedrooms at five of its eight Yorkshire locations: The Carpenters Arms in Felixkirk near Thirsk, The Durham Ox in Crayke, The Oak Tree Inn in Helperby near Boroughbridge, the West Park Hotel in Harrogate and West Acre Lodge in Boltby.
The Group recently won Best Accommodation Operator of the Year at the Morning Advertiser’s Publican Awards to add to its list of prestigious national awards.
The Cleveland Tontine is at Staddlebridge, just off the A19, and is close to the National Trust-owned Mount Grace Priory and to the long distance Cleveland Way and Lyke Wake Walk.