The Empire is a former hotel in Bath, Somerset, England, built in 1901 and designated as a Grade II listed building.

[1] It is situated on Orange Grove, close to both Bath Abbey and Pulteney Bridge and adjacent to the Old Police Station.

It was designed by the Bath City Architect Major Charles Edward Davis for the hotelier Alfred Holland and built from Bath Stone,[1] on the site of the Athenaeum.

It was described by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner as a ‘monstrosity and an unbelievable piece of pompous architecture’.

[2] During World War II it was used by the Admiralty as a postal sorting office and remained in their possession until the 1990s.