Thorngrove Manor Hotel

Summary

Thorngrove Manor Hotel boasts unique creative architecture with captivating style and contemporary influence. Guests enjoy total privacy with discreet personalised service and dining.

A recipient of many awards, Thorngrove Manor Hotel is one of the world’s outstanding hotels. The baroque towers and fantasy turrets are clues to its flamboyant interiors. Antiques, hand-painted friezes, stencils and artwork exploit its diverse room shapes to create an escapist’s dream.

Imaginative decor renders every room a masterpiece. There is no more ingenious fusion of the contemporary and the baroque anywhere! Enjoy meticulous attention to detail with a personal and discreet service. Every modern facility has been discreetly woven into this romantic wonderland. Privacy is absolute; you may never see the other guests. The dining and comfort levels surpass all five star ratings. Romantics - this could be journey’s end!

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Location

17 minutes from Adelaide’s city centre. 35 minutes from the airport.

Things to enjoy

Private dining, CDs, books and magazines, in-room holistic massage therapies, croquet, pétanque.

Nearby

Wineries/vineyards, wine tasting, wildlife parks, golf, historic villages, botanic gardens, museums, beauty treatments, day spa, Adelaide city, Kangaroo Island, Barossa Valley, Penfolds Magill Estate, Bridgewater Mill, Cleland Wildlife Park, Hahndorf.

News for Thorngrove Manor Hotel

Lance Armstrong's comeback Tour Down Under in Adelaide World cycling superstar Lance Armstrong is to make his official comeback to professional road cycling racing in Adelaide in South Australia's 2009 ProTour Tour Down Under. Tour de France (7 times winner ) Lance Armstrong will headline the race. Armstrong retired after winning the 2005 Tour de France. The six stages of the Tour Downunder are all conveniently based around Thorngrove. The race season commences January 18th 2009 and the end of stage 2, Jan 21st finishes in Stirling (a previous winner of the best decorated town)-a 7 minute walk from Thorngrove. An action packed week of cycling and fesitivities, street parties and celebration.

2009 -25 years since the journey began! A sequence of planned and unexpected events resulted in the creation of Thorngrove. ‘Much of the culture of South Australia since European settlement has been derivative, and the taste amongst the elite for a country residence was inherited from the age old tradition, one well established in Great Britain, where a mark of success was the ownership of a country property with a dignified house set in fine grounds.’ During the mid to late 1800s the wealthy colonists in Adelaide aspired to replicate the British tradition of owning prestigious and lavish country mansions. Despite often being at odds with their environment, they are now very much a part of the landscape. Some of Adelaide’s best colonial architects designed baronial and gothic influenced residences that were constructed in and around Stirling and Crafers, including the vice-regal summer residence, Marble Hill at Norton Summit. ‘Eccentricity, folly and exoticism were well tolerated among the rich. Such extravagances were expressions of their special aspirations and achievements.’ It is this historical and creative design concept that underpins the existence of Thorngrove Manor. The architectural plans for Thorngrove were completed and approved 1984.Construction began mid 1984. The property has been consistently redeveloped and evolves on a daily basis! Countless progressive renovations have maintained consistent and impeccable standards.