The Royal Dart Hotel – one of the most prominent waterside buildings in Kingswear – is up for sale with an asking prices of £1 million.

The prominent pub and restaurant complex – which includes five flats – overlooking the River Dart has been owned by Darthaven Marina Ltd. since the 1980s.

The pub and restaurant business has been closed for more than a month after the last licensee – former Torquay teacher Gina Giddings – left after running the business for less than a year.

It was home of former JP Sue Holman – whose family developed and own the next-door Darthaven Marina – until her death earlier his year.

The Grade II listed building is being marketed by Bettesworths estate agent as a 'landmark waterfront property in a prime location overlooking the River Dart'. The Royal Dart Hotel dates back to the 1850s and was bought by the Holman family in the 1980s primarily as office accommodation for the marina, explained Darthaven's Melanie Holman.

She said that Mrs Sue Holman had lived there and had managed the pub and restaurant for some years before it was leased out to tenant managers.

According to Bettesworth the Royal Dart Hotel boasts 'one of the most iconic and sought-after views in the South West of England and is ever changing due to the number of yachts and vessels using the Dart and its moorings'.

The agents also say: 'The property has, for many years, been used to provide restaurant and bar facilities on the lower and upper ground floors, with the first and second floors being arranged as five residential apartments.

'The property is suited to its present use, but also offers the purchaser immense potential for further development and conversion to provide sought after, quality residential accommodation.