A troubled South Warwickshire hotel which shut its doors once again last January looks like it may reopen.

Wroxall Abbey closed again in January 2025 after just two years in business, and was put on the market shortly after.

Now the property has been removed from sale and an application for an alcohol licence has been submitted to Warwick District Council for the Birmingham Road former manor house.

The application - submitted by AAIE Warwickshire Limited - asks for permission for alcohol to be sold for consumption on and off site from 10am to 1am seven days a week.

For guests of the hotel, alcohol would be available 24/7.

The licence would also allow for live music to be played from 10am to 1am every day.

"The applicant has recently acquired these premises and already has a similar successful hotel in Elstree," the application said. 

"The premises will be run to a high standard by an experienced existing manager who is the holder of the award in personal licence holders."

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The application does not say when the hotel may open.

Locals can comment on the application until 26 March.

A troubled past

The 72-bed Wroxall Abbey shut in January just two years after it had reopened under new owners.

The news was the latest in a series of problems for the wedding venue, which had closed previously in 2019.

After two years of sitting empty, it reopened again in 2021 under the Trinity Hotel Group, but would shut once more in August 2022 Trinity went into administration.

Wroxall was then taken over that September by family-run business ONS International, the director of which - Paresh Thakkar - had been involved in running the hotel with Trinity.

After two years under the latest ownership (under the name JGBM Hotel Limited), the hotel closed once again.

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When the building was put up for sale, the property agents said  any new tenant would have to invest a significant amount in refurbishing the site, as 24 of the bedrooms - in the courtyard - are "in shell condition and require a full refurbishment".

Similarly the spa and leisure facilities - including a swimming pool and treatment rooms - were said to "require a full refurbishment".