Is Grantley Hall 5 star?
Grantley Hall is a prestigious, award-winning five-star hotel based in North Yorkshire. Show your support by casting your vote for us in a range of esteemed awards. Grantley Hall has been named the best hotel spa in the UK by the prestigious Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence across the UK, Europe, and the Mediterranean in its 2025 edition.
Has Grantley Hall been sold?
In 2015, Valeria Sykes and her family bought Grantley Hall with a vision of transforming it from something unseen and tired into a property that Yorkshire could be proud of. The Sykes Family Valeria is passionate about history and the arts, having a successful track record of restoring beautiful old country houses to their former glory and ensuring their history lives on, whilst also being equally passionate about her home county of Yorkshire.Today Grantley Hall is privately owned by Valeria Sykes who bought the property with a vision of creating a legacy for her family and this magnificent, historical building.
Who is the managing director of Grantley Hall?
Three generations of the Sykes family were involved in the restoration project, bringing new levels of sincere luxury to the North of England. Valeria’s son, Richard Sykes, is Managing Director. Sykes developed industrial, office and warehouse properties first in London Docklands and later Wakefield, Salford, Leeds and Rotherham. He built Meadowhall, then the country’s biggest shopping centre. In 1999, Sykes sold Meadowhall for £1.