The Kimberley Hotel in Harrogate has announced it has permanently closed due to the impact of covid.
The 70-bedroom, four-star hotel, close to Harrogate Convention Centre on King’s Road, has been welcoming guests for over 50 years.
But posts on the hotel’s Twitter and Facebook pages yesterday confirmed it would not reopen.
The post said:
“It comes with a heavy heart that we have to tell all our loyal guests and friends that due to the financial position caused by covid, we unfortunately have to close the hotel.
“We sincerely thank everyone, customers and staff alike, that have supported us over the years and regret deeply that covid placed us in a situation that we cannot recover from.”
The post adds enquiries should be directed to Wakefield insolvency company Booth & Co.
The Kimberley Hotel opened in the 1960s when five townhouses dating back to the turn of the 20th century were converted.
It benefitted from the opening of what was then called the Harrogate Conference Centre in 1982, which is a short walk away.
The properties were originally built as homes for some of the wealthier families in Harrogate during its Victorian expansion.
In 2018, the owners of the Kimberley were granted planning permission by Harrogate Borough Council to partly demolish and convert the hotel into five townhouses and nine apartments.
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