Royal
Central Hotel
![]() The former Royal
Central Hotel sits behind the Theatre Royal on
Windmill Street between Museum Steet and South
Street. It was built circa 1850 and was
originally called Theatre Royal Hotel, as you can see
on the map below.
![]() When Central Station
was opened across the street in 1880, the hotel was
renamed the Royal Central Hotel.
![]() ![]() Today the hotel looks
unused and boarded up. An article in Skyscraper
News dated the 18th of September, 2009, outlined the
plans of the Benmore Group to build a 48 storey
building on the site which would house a 280 room
hotel and luxury apartments. The plan, which was
still on the drawing board at that time, also included
a helipad. The photograph above was taken in
December of 2010 and clearly the redevelopment is
still on hold.
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