WELCOME TO THE CITY ROOMS

The City Rooms is a beautiful Georgian Grade 1 listed building located in the heart of Leicester City Centre. The historic venue, built in 1792, was intended to become Leicester's first hotel, used to house the visitors to the Leicester Races held at Victoria Park. Sadly, the hotel was never completed and the building was sold with the ground floor being used as a coffee house and the upper floors for banquets, wedding receptions and balls. Then in 1817 it passed into the hands of the County Justices for the Judges Lodgings.

The centerpiece of The City Rooms is the magnificent ballroom which runs the whole width of the building on the first floor. Decorated with figures in niches on the north and south walls by J.C.F. Rossi, and complimented by paintings by R R. Reinagle in panels on the walls and ceilings, the ballroom is a true masterpiece.

Now The City Rooms has undergone a careful two year restoration to bring the building back to life. Comprising three lavishly decorated meeting rooms, a bar, the grand ballroom and four luxurious bedrooms, The City Rooms is open as first intended more than 200 years after work began.
A place for celebration, The City Rooms can provide the setting, the service and the high standards expected of a venue that has stood the test of time.

As such it offers an excellent city centre grand setting for both small and large events.
'Once a hotel that never was, now a hotel that is'

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