Grand Hotel, Granby Street, Leicester
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Grand Hotel, Granby Street, Leicester
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 24 Aug 2011
An extravagant example of late-Victorian architecture, by Cecil Ogden, 1897-98, with Amos Hall adding the obligatory corner tower and everything to its right in 1898. The style is "Franco-German Renaissance". Red brick and stone and crammed with features and details. Pevsner is quite withering about this building: " ... of no architectural value", although, lest we had forgetten, he also remarks that it, "serves to remind us of the scale of new English hotels in those optimistic years." Perhaps for the latter reason, it is grade II listed.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.633167
Longitude
-1.130117