From the Dover Express 27 May 1994.

Fire hit hotel for sale.

A FORMER Dover hotel is coming up for sale at an auction next month and could be demolished.

The Hotel St James, in 'Harold Street, was badly damaged by fire a few years ago and has not opened since.

The hotel had 16 bedrooms, a main bar, residents' lounge, committee room, restaurant and health club.

Planning permission - has been given for the hotel to be demolished and for 14 flats to be built on the site.

The property comes up for sale at Clive Emson's auction at the Great Danes Hotel, Maidstone, on June 6.

From the Dover Express 28 June 1994

Blaze Hotel unsold

A FORMER Dover hotel, severely damaged In a fire a few years ago, has failed to sell at auction.

Hotel St James, in Harold Street, was among the properties at Clive Emson's auction at Maidstone.

"The auction produced some notable results despite one building society's prediction that house prices had started going down again," said Mr Emson.

But the hotel was among the lots that did not sell. A spokesman for the auctioneers said the 16-bedroom hotel was still available at about £90,000.

Planning permission has been given for the demolition of the building and the redevelopment of the site with 14 flats.

COMING DOWN: The former Hotel St James being demolished.

From the Dover Express 16 July 1998.

Disappearing Landmark

ANOTHER well-known building is disappearing in Dover.

The former Hotel St James at the end of Harold Street is being knocked gown to make way for new homes.

Fire swept through it in the early 1990 and despite hopes that it might be restored to its former glory, it has remained derelict.

Planning permission was given for the hotel to be demolished and for 14 flats to be built on the site and in June 1994 it was put up for sale with an asking "price of about £90,000. But it failed to sell.

The demolition men have now moved in and started pulling it down. A doctors' surgery is now planned for the site.