A company which owns care homes and luxury hotels around the country has gone into administration after suffering financial difficulties.
Somerset-based Carlauren Group has told staff that administrators have been called in and to await a further announcement, expected by July 25, 2019.
The company owns the Grade II listed Langdon Court Hotel manor house, once home to Henry VIII’s wife Cathering Parr, just outside Plymouth.
It is one of several high-end hotels the company has around the country, including Dean Valley Manor and Barmouth Sands in Wales, Lambert Manor in the Lake District, and Woodhouse in Morcambe.
In addition to directly managing and operating resorts and hotels, Carlauren Group also runs residential and care facilities, and has architecture, engineering and interior design divisions.
The Yeovil headquartered company has various sections including Carlauren Lifestyle Resorts, which is “creating and managing a new genre of medium to long-term resort accommodation” and Carlauren Care which “operates some of the finest care homes available in the 海角视频”, and provides professional care for elderly people in their own homes.
But the company is understood to have been in financial turmoil for some time now and a petition to wind up an associated company, CHF 3 Limited which trades from the same address as Carlauren Group, has been presented by a creditor at the High Court in Manchester.
In June 2019 Carlauren Group abandoned plans to develop a luxury hotel and a lavish “Ibiza style” beach club on the Isle of Wight, as an investigation was launched into one of the contractors on the project.
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In July 2019, care home Tyndale House, in Somerset, was closed by Carlauren Group with only a week's notice due to financial losses after several of its 26-strong workforce were paid late. The local authority stepped in to provide accommodation for residents.
Is understood chief executive Andrew Jamieson is to make a statement about the administration shortly.
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On the Langdon Court Hotel website the business was today still taking bookings for weddings and styling itself “the most unique and romantic wedding venue in Plymouth”.
A letter to clients, dated and sent on July 23, seen by Business Live, said: “Carlauren Group has instructed administrators. A full update with procedures and next steps will be distributed tomorrow. There is no cause for concern this step is intended to protect all studio owners whilst updating them on the companies (sic) past financial trading by an independent third party.”
The letter was signed by both Mr Jamieson, who has 25 years experience working in high-end hotels, and chairman and chief executive Sean Murray, who founded the Carlauren Group in 2015.
He is described on the company’s website as a “seasoned entrepreneur with a track record in creating and growing successful businesses and investment opportunities in the 海角视频 and international real estate, telecoms and IT markets”.
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Carlauren Group acquired Langdon Court Hotel in 2018. It had been owned and run by Emma and Geoffrey Ede.
This 16th century manor house is set in its own grounds in the South Hams near Wembury, just six miles from the centre of Plymouth.
It has become a major wedding draw for couples from the city, with its walled garden and 18 bedrooms, function suites and bars seen as an ideal setting. It can accommodate 100 guests for a wedding ceremony and meal with up to 150 guests for an evening event.
The Manor House has been lived in and visited by royalty and celebrities including Henry VIII and his last wife Catherine Parr, Elizabeth I, Edward VII and Victorian society beauty and actress Lillie Langtry and even American writer David Sedaris.