The owner of the Kimberley Hotel in Harrogate has filed for liquidation amid over £3.5m debts to local companies as well as HM Revenue and Customs.
Insolvency firm Booth & Co was appointed to wind up Denison 2 earlier this week.
In December 2020 the hotel announced it had permanently closed due to the impact of covid.
Its sole director, Stewart Lewis, is still a director of several other hospitality and property companies that are still trading.
There are 80 entries on Denison 2’s list of creditors totalling £3.5m. £2.6m of this is to its sister company Denison which has the same registered address in York.
Other creditors include HM Revenue and Customs for £338,935 and Harrogate Business Improvement District (BID) for £1,380. Almost £27,000 is also owed to staff in holiday pay.
The Stray Ferret emailed Mr Lewis for a response and for information on the future of the hotel but we did not receive a reply.
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The 70-bedroom, four-star hotel, close to Harrogate Convention Centre on King’s Road, had been welcoming guests for over 50 years.
A post on the hotel’s social media channels in December 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 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.
