Plans to convert a B-listed city centre building into a boutique hotel have been approved.
Developer Henley Homes Group will use the design by architects 3DReid to turn Wellington House into The Wellington, a 98-bed hotel and serviced apartments, after being granted planning permission by Glasgow City Council.
The venue will become part of the Rogue City Hotel Group, which also operates Dunalastair Hotel Suites at Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire.
The building on the corner of Wellington Street and Bath Street was remodelled in the 1990s to be used as office space but its original late 1800s facade has been maintained.
Andrew Marshall, associate director at 3DReid, advised planners: “The hotel will be developed by Henley’s Rogue City Hotels brand, bringing to market, a product that provides the best of both boutique hotels and serviced apartments.
“This high quality building, which is currently unoccupied, will be sensitively restored and brought back to use throughout the day and into the evening. Located on a corner plot, the front of house accommodation will have an immediate positive relationship with the street.”
“The building has been unlocked for hotel use by sympathetic modifications to the Wellington Street entrance externally, whilst internally, floor plates have been modified to present a grand but efficient volume in which to arrive.”
