The Met Hotel is a

Grade II listed building In the United Kingdom, a listed building or listed structure is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, in Wales, and the Northern Irel ...

situated on King Street in

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. Designed by Leeds-based architects Harry Sutton Chorley and J.W. Connon, the hotel opened in 1899 as the Hotel Metropole. The

Principal Hayley Group Principal Hotel Company is a British hotel and conference venue operator headquartered in Harrogate, England. History Principal Hotel Company advertises that it was established in 1898, as that is the year the oldest hotel in its chain, Kimpton F ...

renovated the hotel in 2005, at a cost of £6 million, and changed the name to the trendier sounding 'The Met'. It has four stars and it has 120 rooms. The Hotel Metropole is a listed building, principally because of its rare and remarkable Victorian

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facade. The cupola on the roof was taken from the demolished 4th White Cloth Hall, built in 1868 on the same site. Blue Plaque, The Metropole, King Street, Leeds - geograph

Blue Plaque, The Metropole, King Street, Leeds - geograph

Television

*The hotel served as the fictional 'Marble Arch Hotel' in the hit 1991 miniseries '' The Darling Buds of May''.

References

External links

The Principal Met Hotel official site
* Grade II listed buildings in Leeds Grade II listed hotels Hotels in Leeds Leeds Blue Plaques Hotels established in 1899 Hotel buildings completed in 1899 {{UK-listed-building-stub