A historic Sunderland hotel has been put up for sale by a hospitality firm three years after the death of the firm’s founder.
The Roker Hotel has been operated by Tavistock Hospitality under the Best Western Hotels Premier Collection for the past 20 years ago and has become a highly regarded and successful hotel. Tavistock Hospitality invested heavily in the building after acquiring it, transforming it into a high-end boutique venue complete with a cakery and tearoom called Let There Be Crumbs.
The group’s founder Mark Hird also based the company’s Poetic License Independent Small Batch Distillery business at the hotel. He affectionately named the 500-litre copper pot which produces its gins and is on display for customers to see, after his daughter Gracie.
