[10] The hotel's clientele included business people who could avoid City traffic by staying near the railway station.

Following the redesign and improvement of the adjoining railway station in the 1980s,[14] In 1996, Railtrack sold the hotel to a consortium including Terence Conran.

[21] On 14 March 2006, the hotel was sold by Conran Holdings and the Blackstone Group for £150 million to Global Hyatt Corporation and JER Partners,[22] which rebranded it as Andaz London Liverpool Street on November 16, 2007.

[23] In November 2022, plans were announced for a £1.5 billion redevelopment of the entire station complex, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron.

[27] The building, including the Abercorn Rooms, is of red brick with stucco and stone ground floor and mildly classical style dressings.

The Great Eastern is where vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing stays during his first visit to London in Bram Stoker's Gothic fiction horror novel Dracula.