Grand Hotel (Leicester)
The Grand Hotel is a large hotel on Granby Street in the City centre of Leicester, England. It is now known as the Mercure Leicester City Hotel.
It was designed by Cecil Ogden and built built between 1897-98 by Amos Hall. The wedding-cake style top on the corner of Grandby Street and Belvoir Street was added by Amos Hall who also designed the Silver Arcade in the Edwardian period.
The Kings Hall on the first floor was at one time a cinema.
The hotel has always been considered as one of Leicester's most prestigious, but arguably its heyday was during Victorian times. Today the hotel is rated as 4 star and is operated by Mercure Hotels, a division of the multinational hotel company Accor.
