Grand Hotel (Leicester)

The Grand Hotel is a Grade II listed[1] large hotel on Granby Street in the City centre of Leicester, England. It is now known as the Mercure Leicester City Hotel.

The Grand Hotel

It was designed by Cecil Ogden[2] and built between 1897-98 by Amos Hall.[3] The wedding-cake style top on the corner of Grandby Street and Belvoir Street was added by Amos Hall who also designed the Silver Arcade in the Edwardian period.

The Kings Hall on the first floor was at one time a cinema.

A postcard showing the hotel in 1906

The hotel has always been considered as one of Leicester's most prestigious, but arguably its heyday was during Victorian times. Today the hotel is rated as 4 star and is operated by Mercure Hotels, a division of the multinational hotel company Accor.

References
  1. Historic England. "The Grand Hotel (1074048)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 1 September 2020.
  2. Pegden, Tom (26 September 2017). "What's it like to run the best hotels in Leicestershire?". leicestermercury. Retrieved 31 July 2020.
  3. Watson, Hayley (2 June 2019). "Silver Arcade could soon house more offices than shops". leicestermercury. Retrieved 31 July 2020.


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