Planning permission has been granted to convert an historic A-listed building in Virginia Street in Glasgow’s Merchant City into a boutique hotel.
The building will become The Virginia Hotel. It will include 14 bedrooms on the upper floors with a restaurant and bar on the ground and basement levels. The building also features a courtyard to the rear.
The building dates back to the 1760’s when it was used as the headquarters for a tobacco and sugar merchant. It was then converted into a girls school. Most recently the building was the base for a local wholesaler but it has now been vacant for the last twenty years.
Details of the hotel operator and its likely opening date await publication.