Durker Roods Hotel gets new owners
Aug 17 2010 by Henryk Zientek, Huddersfield Daily Examiner
A PICTURESQUE hotel is set for a new lease of life under new ownership.
The Durker Roods Hotel at Meltham has been bought by Honley entrepreneurs Pauline and Richard Hough.
Now they have set about revitalising the property – once owned by industrialist David Brown – in a bid to restore the hotel to its former glory.
The hotel, which was in the hands of administrators for many months, was sold to the husband and wife team for close to the £700,000 asking price.
The sale was conducted by property agency Colliers International on behalf of insolvency firm Moorfields Corporate Recovery.
Fiona Hough, daughter of the new owners, said work to refurbish the bedrooms, corridors and communal areas was already under way.
It was also planned to revamp the hotel restaurant and – in the longer term – make more of a feature of the building’s links to the tycoon who built up David Brown Gears, David Brown Tractors and at one stage owned Aston Martin.
She said: “There is a David Brown Tractor Museum nearby and the hotel could be appealing to tractor enthusiasts.
