Perth’ s Queens Hotel on sale with £1.25m price tag

One of Perth’s largest hotels has gone on sale for £1.25 million. The Queens Hotel on Leonard Street closed its doors in March last year after lockdown measures were first brought in. It has remained closed ever since despite restrictions being partially eased last summer.

Bosses at the Best Western-owned establishment have now decided to put the building on the market. It is being sold through Graham & Sibbald.

The six storey hotel occupies a commanding position just yards from Perth Railway Station and close to the South Inch.

In addition to 51-bedrooms it has a lounge/bar, restaurant, conference rooms, function suite, pool and gym, car park and two garages.

In pre-pandemic times the hotel was a thriving business that was popular with both the business and tourist markets.

A statement from Graham & Sibbald said the hotel ‘is an eye-catching and commanding building with a prominent roadside position, and the hotel has been a well-established hotel facility on the Perth scene for many, many years and enjoys patronage to its range of bar, catering, function, conference, bedroom and leisure facilities from a wide range of customers – locals, commercial, tourists and visitors alike’.

Following its closure the hotel’s ground floor windows were boarded up to prevent vandalism and its staff were put on furlough. They had hoped to return to work but Perthbased 7 Hospitality Management, which looked after the hotel, informed staff in October that they would be made redundant.

According to reports, the email said: “Covid-19 is continuing to have a detrimental impact on the hotel, and the increased government restrictions and measures, along with the second wave of coronavirus, has meant that it is not viable for the hotel to reopen.

“The business is therefore proposing for a full permanent closure. This means that unfortunately, the business has no other option but to propose redundancies following a full closure of the hotel.”

The hotel is a commanding building that was popular with tourist and business markets

PRIME SITE: The Queens Hotel has been closed since lockdown measures hit home last year.