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The hotel where former Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson punched one of the show’s producers has been sold off a guide price of £995,000.
The 18-bedroom Simonstone Hall hotel in the Yorkshire Dales – which hung a plaque commemorating the punch-up last year – was placed on the market in September 2015 and has changed hands for the first time in 20 years.
It was purchased by a private investor for an undisclosed sum.
The news comes as Colliers International has reported a spike in transactional activity in the Yorkshire and North East region. The sale of Simonstone Hall is just one of five hotel sales completed by the company in the last few weeks.
Other transactions from the estate agency include the sale of the Beverly Arms Hotel in Beverly to brewer and retailer Daniel Thwaites; The Best Western Kings Head hotel in Richmond to the Coaching Inn Group for around £2m; The Morritt Spa hotel to North of England Estates; and The Three Horse Shoes in County Durham, to Key Inns.
Peter Bean, director of the firm’s Leeds hotels agency team, said: “These recent sales comprise a mix of property types from across the hotels spectrum and vary from private individuals entering into the hospitality sector for the first time and established operators adding to their portfolio with a prime hotel asset.
“Either way, it’s great to see such positivity in the marketplace with sales being completed, owners releasing the value in their properties in order to move on to pastures new, and buyers having the opportunity to secure their desired acquisition in the bustling Yorkshire and North East hotels market.”
