The Grand Hotel is a Grade II listed building in the Leicester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1975. Hotel. 7 related planning applications.
The Grand Hotel
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gutter-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Leicester
- Constituency
- Leicester South MP: Shockat Adam (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1975
- Type
- Hotel
- Address
- The Grand Hotel, Granby Street, City of Leicester, LE1 1DE
- OS grid reference
- SK 589 042
- Coordinates
- 52.63305, -1.1299
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Grand Hotel, built in 1896 and 1898 by architects Cecil Ogden and Simpson and Harvey, is a large corner building designed in the Franco-German Renaissance style. It stands four storeys tall with attics, constructed of red brick with stone dressings. The building features a curved corner with paired columns on each floor, topped by a two-stage stone-domed cupola.
On the Granby Street side, there are two ornate pedimental gables flanking turrets, which have high tent-shaped roofs and a smaller gable in between. The Belvoir Street elevation showcases a very large gable with a pediment at the apex, flanked by octagonal domed turrets. This side also includes a large tripartite round-arch window for the first-floor banqueting hall, with pilastered round-arch lights above. All windows are designed with stone mullions and transoms, some set in two-storey shallow splayed bays with small pediments above. Moulded cornices are present at each floor level.
The ground floor features modern shop fronts, except for an iron-canopied entrance on Granby Street and a prominent entrance on Belvoir Street. The building is topped with steep chateau-type slate roofs that include dormers.
Local climate
The Grand Hotel receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 71% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- Related listed building consents — 7 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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