Carlisle’s Crown & Mitre Hotel is up for sale with a £5.5 million price tag.
The city centre hotel is currently owned by the Peel Hotels, which owns five other venues across the country.
The 91-bedroom Crown & Mitre is Grade II listed and is being marketed by specialists Christie & Co.
Gary Witham, director – hotels at Christie & Co, said: “The Crown & Mitre is a stunning example of the grand age of British hotel building and dominates the city square. It has the capacity to serve both domestic leisure tourism and larger events / functions and is loved by the many repeat guests it welcomes.”
It has six function rooms and Christie & Co said its year end revenue was £2.43m.
The Crown & Mitre Hotel was built in 1905 on the site of the original Crown & Mitre coffee house. The landlord of the day supported Bonnie Prince Charlie and he gave shelter to the rebels once they entered the city following the Jacobite siege of 1745. By the end of the 18th century, the Crown & Mitre Coffee House had become the main coaching inn of the city.
Novelist Sir Walter Scott and his fiancee Margaret Carpenter stayed at the inn the night before they married in the city’s cathedral in 1797.
The original inn was demolished in 1902 to make way for the existing hotel, which took three years to build.
In 1918, American president Woodrow Wilson, who was born in Carlisle, visited the hotel while on a state visit to Britain.
