features...

• The hotel has 25 rooms (single, twin, double and family rooms), nine of which are en-suite.
• We offer a selection of bar meals and snacks in our newly refurbished bar, as well as a number of draught beers, bottles and soft drinks.
• All rooms have a wash basin, tea/coffee making facilities and a colour tv.
• Rooms are cleaned and serviced on a daily basis.
  
• Hand and bathtowels are provided and changed every three days.
• Special requests are observed.
• Please note that all our rooms are non-smoking
• We also have an on-site salon available to all guests so, if you feel like treating yourself to a manicure, massage or any of the many available treatments and offers inside, pop in to the Limetree Health & Beauty Salon.

history...

The Croft is a classic Victorian building designed by Leicester's leading architect of the 1900s, Isaac Barradale. It was formerly known as “Elmhurst”. The house and the one next door to it, known as “Carisbrooke”, are almost identical and were built for two sisters by their doting father. The sheer magnificence of the houses are characterised by powerful eaves, towering chimney stacks and splendid balconies.

The building was converted into a school in the nineteen-thirties. During the Second World War the house was used both as a hospital for wounded Airforce men and as a secure billet for important visitors. Sir Winston Churchill was reputed to be one of them.

After the war, it became a school again and was then converted into a dentist’s surgery, changed back into a boy’s school; was opened as a boarding house and then made into a hotel.