What retirement home replaced the demolished Gleneagles Hotel building?

Sachs Lodge replaced the demolished Gleneagles Hotel building in Torquay as a retirement development.

The Gleneagles Hotel was the real-world inspiration for Fawlty Towers. John Cleese and Connie Booth stayed there with members of Monty Python in 1970, and the hotel’s eccentric owner, Donald Sinclair, helped inspire Basil Fawlty. The building remained a destination for fans even after it became part of the Best Western chain.

The hotel closed permanently in February 2015. Permission was later granted for demolition and construction of retirement apartments by Churchill Retirement Living. The completed development was named Sachs Lodge in memory of Andrew Sachs, who played the Spanish waiter Manuel in the sitcom and died in 2016.

The answer is sometimes muddled with fictional names from the programme, such as Fawlty Towers itself. Sachs Lodge is not a hotel within the series; it is the real retirement development built on the former Gleneagles site in Torquay.