Vacation Rental Description
The Lord Lister Hotel has 20 Bedrooms and 20 en-suite Bathrooms.
It is in Hitchin and is family run hotel, with a warm and friendly atmosphere, excellent service and an affordable tariff with special weekend rates.
This listed building has a character all of its own: all rooms have their own personality.
All our beautifully furnished rooms have en-suite bathrooms, colour television, hair dryers, tea and coffee making facilities and direct dial telephones. For that special occasion there is also a four poster bedroom. Flowers or wine can be provided on request.
In our accommodation is a cosy hotel bar to relax in, that overlooks the garden, a residents TV lounge and we have wireless ADSL internet connections available throughout the hotel for guests use. We can also provide conferences facilities on request.
Our Hotel is centrally located just 2 minutes walk from historic Hitchin town centre, a quaint market town with cobbled streets and market square flanked by beautiful buildings. A shopper´s paradise, there are dozens of independent shops and boutiques as well as the high-street names. Dining choice is vast with dozens of restaurants of every description
Hitchin, Hertfordshire is easily accessed from the M1 (10-15 minutes) and A1M (5 minutes). The Lord Lister Hotel has its own guest car park at the rear of the hotel. As we are close to the M1 come to us if you need a hotel near Stevenage, a hotel near Letchworth or a hotel near Luton.
The Lord Lister Hotel was originally a Wool comber's House built in the late 18th Century, and was owned by Thomas Williams. It later became a Quaker school known as the Isaac Brown Academy and many of our eminent 19th century scientists were educated there.
The most famous of these was Joseph Lister who pioneered germ free operations and became known as the 'father of antiseptics'.
The school was partially burnt down by fire in 1845, it was rebuilt and the top floor was probably added at that time.
The frontage has remained unchanged from that period and is a fine example of early Victorian architecture. The house was renamed Scott House in 1887, until it became the Lister House Hotel in 1930.
The cellars are very old and there is reputed to be a tunnel from them, across to the nearby Carmelite monastery, The Hitchin Priory.
Hitchin Attractions
Hitchin British Schools Museum - Queen Street
St. Mary's Church - Churchyard
The Priory - Bridge Street
Corn Exchange - Market Place
The Biggin Almshouses - Biggin Lane
Museum & Library - Paynes Park
Queen Mother Theatre - Walsworth Road
Blue Plague Scheme - Listed Buildings of Interest.
The Lord Lister Hotel is one of many building on this scheme. A Blue Plaque Scheme with accompanying Leaflet identifying many of Hitchin's most interesting and noteworthy buildings was organised in 2000 by the Hitchin Historical Society to mark the Millennium. The society's range of publications can be found in hotel rooms or Hitchin Museum or Hitchin Town Centre Initiative and Local bookshops.
Places of Interest
Cambridge - 27m/43km - 51 mins by car
Woburn Safari Park - 25m/39km - 36 mins by car
Hatfield House - 16/25km - 36 mins by car
Knebworth House - 6m/10km- 10 mins by car
Imperial War Museum - 22m/35km - 39 mins by car
St Albans Cathedral - 22m/35km - 31 mins by car
Nearby towns
Luton - 9m/14km - 16 mins by car
Stevenage - 6m/9km - 12 mins by car
Letchworth - 3m/5km - 7 mins by car
Baldock - 5m/8km - 12 mins by car
Bedford - 21m/34km - 40 mins by car
Henlow Camp - 6m/9km - 13 mins by car
Hitchin Railway Station - 1m - 15 minutes on foot
