The Bray Head Hotel has come on the market through Lisney guiding at €1.8 million.

This listed building, purpose-built in the 1880s and now showing its age but with plenty of Victorian features intact, is situated on a prominent 1.1-acre seafront site and extends to more than 3,716sq m (40,000sq ft).

It is being sold by the Regan family, who have owned it for the past 55 years. The hotel is the last in a chain of six acquired between 1950 and 1975 by Patrick and Nancy Regan.

This made the Regans one of the first Irish hotel chain owners and their group included the Crofton House Hotel and Salthill Hotel in Dún Laoghaire (both of which no longer exist), the Crofton Airport Hotel (now the Regency Hotel), the Crofton Hotel Carlow (now the Seven Oaks Hotel) and the Holyrood Hotel in Bray.

The Bray Head Hotel, run for many years by Nancy Regan with her daughter Ena and son-in-law Johnny Cummins, has been u8sed many times for filmig.

Films shot at the hotel include The Commitments, Breakfast on Pluto and My Left Foot together with TV series Love Hate, Bachelors Walk and Ballykissangel. Stars who filmed there include Vanessa Redgrave, John Hurt, Pierce Brosnan, Neil Jordan, Colin Farrell and Daniel Day-Lewis.