The Grand Hotel Leicester

It was designed by Cecil Ogden and Amos Hall[2] and built between 1897–98 by Orson Wright.

[3] The wedding-cake style top on the corner of Granby Street and Belvoir Street was added by Amos Hall, who also designed the Silver Arcade in the Edwardian period.

Located on the first floor, it could cater for 350 people; part of the building was at one time a cinema.

[4] The hotel has always been considered one of Leicester's most prestigious,[5] but arguably its heyday was during Victorian times.

The hotel is in an area designated as a Heritage Action Zone, allowing the securing of a grant from Historic England in 2022 to return the hotel entrance and frontage shops to their original Victorian appearance.