[3] Currently the UK's largest residential conference centre in the South of England, it was built in 1890 and has 340 bedrooms.

The hotel has five lifts which three serve the tower block floors.

Since 2000, the hotel has been operated by Hilton Hotels & Resorts (previously it operated under the Stakis brand), and previously owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland, its freehold is now owned by the Topland Group.

The flats are typical 1960s tower block style building and when the apartments were built onto the hotel It is referenced in section 3, "The Fire Sermon" of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land.

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