New owners of the Carfax Hotel in Bath have announced plans to redevelop the Grade 1-listed property which was previously owned and run by the Salvation Army.

It will be converted into a luxury boutique hotel and will join two other hotel in Bath which are in the same group - the 60-bedroom Abbey hotel and the 20-bedroom Villa Magdala.

The new hotel will include 40 individually styled bedrooms, a restaurant and bar. It is expected to reopen summer 2016 with a new, as yet undisclosed, name.

It is located in Great Pulteney Street, one of Bath’s grand thoroughfares.