Hallam Towers is a fifteen-storey, 48 metres (157 ft) apartment building completed in 2022 in the Broomhill area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
[8] The hotel included facilities such as the Vulcan Room restaurant which featured a colour scheme of "orange, yellow, pale wrapping paper brown and sour green",[7] the Sheffield Plate Grill (a quick service buttery),[9] decorated with "a series of Sheffield trade signs, none of them later than 1910 and most of them mid-19th century" and a colour scheme of pink, red, black and white,[7] and the Downstairs Bar, described in the original press release for the hotel thus; "A dark intimate room with a club-like atmosphere enlivened by turquoise blue upholstery.
[10] Several times during the 1960s the hotel restaurant appeared in Egon Ronay's Guide to British Eateries and achieved a four star rating from the AA.
[16] The hotel eventually closed, along with the attached Spirit Health Club, on 18 April 2004, with some staff transferring to the Holiday Inn Royal Victoria in central Sheffield.
[23] A sale of the building was agreed in May 2014, reputed to be with an unspecified national housebuilder, however by July of the same year this deal had fallen through and the property was returned to the market.
[24] In July 2015, local newspaper; The Sheffield Star quoted agent Tearle Phelan of Knight Frank as saying "We are speaking to a very interested party, it’s in legals and we are looking to exchange imminently".
[18] The Sheffield Telegraph subsequently reported (October 2015)[25] that a company had purchased the site and that the proposal would include the building being demolished and new luxury apartments and homes built on the land with no mention of social housing.
[26] South Yorkshire Police later urged the public to refrain from urban exploration after a 19-year-old student fell to his death in the abandoned site.