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The Grade II Listing tells us the hotel, architect George John Skipper, was built 1895-96 but the 67 bed hotel claims on its website to have been built in 1820. A large house was built on the site in 1820 that was purchased by Pierre le Françoise in May 1830. It was he who was listed in 1836 as a 'boarding house' and, after Pierre's death in 1841, in 1845 it was listed as the 'Hotel de Paris' possibly following its purchase by Henry Jarvis that year. In 1860 an extra third floor accommodation had been added to the hotel, and possibly some fourth floor rooms. Henry's son Alex Jarvis employed Skipper to design a new hotel. The design incorporated the old building plus the neighbouring properties of Albert House and the Belle Vue Hotel. It was built by J Smith of Norwich. With various managers the Jarvis family owned the hotel until 1961 when it was sold to a Mr Bush who undertook to fully modernise and renovate the hotel. Following Bush's death in 1972 it was sold on and has had various owners since.