Christie + Co has announced the sale of the Best Western Priory Hotel to Cameron Ventures Group off an asking price of £1.25m. This is the second acquisition for the company, which already owns and operates the 40-bedroom Best Western Brome Grange Hotel on the Norfolk/Suffolk border. The Priory is a grade II-listed property with parts dating back to the 16th century. Over the last few years, the period building has been restored and extended to offer extensive dining and function areas Read more [...]

A change of use application has been submitted by agent CSJ Planning Consultants on behalf of BigSur Properties covering 37-39 and 41 Corn Street. The grade II-listed 37-39 Corn Street was originally designed by architect Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, who worked on Liverpool Cathedral, Waterloo Bridge and Battersea Power Station as well as designing the red telephone box. The building, built in the 1930s and the office of the Friends Provident life insurance company, also features work from Read more [...]

A French school due to start its first teaching year this autumn has had to learn about English heritage the hard way after it was warned against unauthorised alterations to listed buildings in one of London’s best preserved Georgian squares. Conservation officers have warned a new school about alterations to Grade 1 listed buildings at 43-45 Bedford Square and 15-19 Bedford Avenue. Ecole Jeannine Manuel, which has schools in Paris and Lille, acquired a lease last year on a group of Grade Read more [...]