The London Marriott County Hall Hotel is a Grade-II listed hotel at the South Bank in London.[1] It has 241 bedrooms.[1]
History
The County Hall was designed by Ralph Knott in 1909 and work on the building began in 1912. In 1922 County Hall was officially opened by King George V and Queen Mary as the headquarters of the local government in London.[2][3] The entire complex of seven buildings was completed in 1932 and the northern section of the building was built in 1933.
The premises continued to expand, and became under control by the Greater London Council (GLC) in 1965. By the 1980s, the Labour controlled GLC was in conflict with the British Conservative Government. Since the Parliament buildings were just across the river from County Hall, the latter sported a large banner recording the total number of unemployed in London.