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Station Road, ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH, LE65 2GJ

High-specification apartments, completed in 2008, overlooking the Royal Hotel. Viewed from the Ivanhoe Social Club carpark.

The avenue of trees on Station Road look particularly attractive at this time of year. Royal Mews can be seen on the left. It was built in 2007-8 and are apartments. On the opposite side of the road, here unseen, is the deteriorating Royal Hotel. Immediately behind the trees on the right are the hotel gardens, which are completely derelict and generally inaccessible.

Dating from the 1970s.

Part of the short-lived development of Ashby as a spa by Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 2nd Earl of Moira. Built 1826-7 as the Hastings Hotel, with a more impressive ashlar facade onto the Bath Grounds. Originally named Hastings Hotel. Design accredited to the architect-surveyor Robert Chaplin who worked in Ashby between 1831-50. Listed Grade II*. The hotel closed in April 2018 and when this view was taken, its future was uncertain.

Showing the Royal Hotel on the right, featuring a partly repaired portico.

Grade II* listed. Listing number 1073594 . Circa 1826. Facade and south end of red brick with stone dressings. Rest of stone. 3 storeys.

This fine Georgian building dates from 1826 in the days when Ashby-de-la-Zouch was a spa town and is now a hotel. Unfortunately, the quality of food and accommodation scarcely does justice to the imposing exterior.

The Royal Hotel, Grade II* listed and built in 1826, closed in February 2018. It was soon boarded up, and is already looking very deteriorated. The hotel has been in financial difficulty for several years, and it will cost at least £3 million to refurbish. The rear area, previously containing gardens and a tennis court, is completely ruined and derelict. The rest of the hotel is sure to follow.

Situated beside Station Road, and taken from perhaps the most commanding view of the Hotel that is currently available: beside the fuel pumps at Station Road petrol station. The hotel is still closed, ever since 2018, but has received noticeable repair work. Some parts of the roof have been repaired, the chimneys repointed, the portico stabilised and repainted, and the plants growing in the brickwork removed. Nevertheless, little intention for actually reinstating the building's habitation has been expressed. About a year ago, it was reported that the hotel was no longer being heated, due to criminals stealing the pipes for the heating system. Whether that is still the case is wholly unclear. The site has recently been added to Historic England's "Heritage at Risk" register, categorising its condition as "poor" and its priority as "C - Slow decay".