Scene of Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear-ending punch hits the market
THE Yorkshire Dales hotel made famous by Jeremy Clarkson’s “punch-up” which proved to be the final straw for the BBC and Top Gear has gone on the market for £995,000.
Simonstone Hall Hotel at Hawes in the Yorkshire Dales National Park has an asking price of £995,000. It has 18 en-suite letting bedrooms, bar, restaurant and function facilities alongside a whole variety of staff and management accommodation and two acres of grounds.
Colliers’ hotels agency director Peter Bean said: “Owner, Michael Cannon, bought the hotel in 1996 when he acquired shooting interests in the area and now that he is moving his sole focus to the Wemmergill Estate in County Durham it is naturally time to hand over the reins at beautiful Simonstone Hall to new owners.”
It has come on to the market just days after Colliers were also instructed to sell Leeds city centre hotel the New Ellington.
The 34-bedroom boutique hotel is named for jazz musician Duke Ellington, who performed in the city in the 1958 Leeds centenary music festival.
RBS, which completed the development of the York Place hotel, is looking for around £2.5m for the hotel, which is well-known for its gin garden.
Julian Troup, head of UK Hotels, Colliers International, said: “It’s not often that hotels in the centre of Leeds come to the open market, so we expect to see a great deal of interest from a wide range of potential buyers eager to acquire a piece of real estate together with a successful hotel business in one of the UK’s fastest growing cities.”
