Holland House, formerly called Julian Hodge House, is a high-rise hotel on
Newport Road
Newport Road is a 4.7 mi (7.5 km) road leading east from the centre of Cardiff, Wales, towards Newport, until it joins the A48 at St Mellons.
Description
Newport Road follows the route of the A4161 through Roath and the B4487 t ...
near the centre of
Cardiff
Cardiff (; cy, Caerdydd ) is the capital and largest city of Wales. It forms a principal area, officially known as the City and County of Cardiff ( cy, Dinas a Sir Caerdydd, links=no), and the city is the eleventh-largest in the United Kingd ...
,
Wales
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. Originally an office block, the
building has 15 floors and is the
tenth tallest building in Cardiff.
History
The building
The building was constructed in 1968 by the Welsh financier
Julian Hodge
Sir Julian Stephen Alfred Hodge (15 October 1904 – 17 July 2004) was a London-born entrepreneur and banker who lived in Wales for most of his life, from the age of five.
Background and beginnings
Julian Hodge was born on 15 October 1904 in ...
(1904 –2004) and was named ''Julian Hodge House''. It was later called the ''Julian S. Hodge Building''.
The building was refurbished in 2003/4 for hotel use.
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It underwent an alteration and refurbishment project on the existing concrete framed structure, including the destruction of an existing two-storey extension structure. The two-storey extension was and was built on top of an existing basement car park area.
Occupants
The building was built as an office block, its occupants included Lloyds TSB Bank.
In 2004 it became the Macdonald Holland House Hotel.[ The hotel was run by ]Macdonald Hotels
Macdonald Hotels Ltd is a 3.7 star hotel company based in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland.
Its main subsidiary, Macdonald Hotels and Resorts, owns or operates hotels and holiday resorts in the UK and Spain.
History
Macdonald Hotels was bought ...
until 2007 when it was sold to AccorHotels
Accor S.A. is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties. It is the largest hospitality company in Europe, and the sixth largest hospitality company worldwide.
Accor op ...
to operate under the Mercure
Mercure may refer to:
* MERCURE, an atmospheric dispersion modelling CFD code developed by Électricité de France
* Mercure Hotels, a chain of hotels run by Accor
* French ship Mercure (1783), French ship ''Mercure'' (1783)
* Dassault Mercure, a ...
brand.
In 2006, the exterior of the building was used as a hospital for the BBC television sci-fi drama series ''Torchwood
''Torchwood'' is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. A spin-off of the 2005 revival of ''Doctor Who'', it aired from 2006 to 2011. The show shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing ...
'', which was produced in Cardiff.
Hotel facilities
Mercure Holland House and Spa is a 4-star hotel with 165 rooms. The hotel has a first floor restaurant and a lounge bar, an indoor swimming pool and seventeen meeting spaces.
See also
*List of tallest buildings in Cardiff
This is a list of the tallest buildings in Cardiff that are in height and above in the capital of Wales. They include buildings ranging from the ornate civic centre to the historic Cardiff Castle and Llandaff Cathedral.
The city's growth is ...
Notes
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