The Met Hotel is a

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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 A predecessor company was founded in 1984. In 1992, when the chain had 18 properties, it went bankrupt during a recession. Two y ...

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

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facade. The cupola on the roof was taken from the demolished

4th White Cloth Hall The 4th White Cloth Hall was a market for the sale of undyed cloth on King Street in Leeds city centre in England. A blue plaque for the building can be found on the nearby Quebec Street. The 4th White Cloth hall was built in 1868 by the North ...

, built in 1868 on the same site.

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