A hotel on a prime street in Bath is to undergo an extensive refurbishment project after plans were approved by councillors.
Owners of the Grade-I listed Parade Park Hotel at North Parade in Bath, Fairtree Asset Management, will now carry out ‘essential repair and refurbishment’ to the building, create a handful of spa rooms and treatment facilities and construct a new garden building to house three bedrooms.
The hotel currently comprises 33 bedrooms and The Apple Tree bar.
The South African private equity business acquired the hotel off a guide price of £6m in a deal facilitated by Knight Frank in 2022.
Providence Hotels is the operating arm of Fairtree Investments and also runs hotels in Cornwall, Devon, Lake District and Somerset.
A supporting statement for the refurbishment plan said: “Parade Park Hotel is in need of essential repair and refurbishment, and the proposed alterations to internal layouts and external improvements will provide functionally and accessible facilities necessary for that of a modern hotel.
“Through extensive research into the building’s history, a clear design brief has been developed to not only improve the hotel but protect its historic fabric.
“Through remedial works, removal of modern alterations and the replacement of original details and windows, the proposed scheme will greatly improve the condition of the hotel.
“In addition, the improvement works to the garden and proposed courtyard rooms will enhance a currently forgotten and important area of the existing building.”
The hotel spans three houses that date back to 1740 and were previously used as lodging houses from the 1750s for 170 years.
Separate hotels were then created, with numbers 8 and 9 becoming connected and known as the Grosvenor Hotel in 1921.
By 1931, No 10 had become Sheriff’s Hotel and was rebranded as North Parade Hotel around 1966. The three properties were linked in 1997 to create one single large hotel.
