PREMISES owned by two well-known businessmen have been put up for sale.

Boston Hall, at Boston Spa, the headquarters for Sir Robert Ogden’s Ogden Group, has been put up for sale for a guide price of £1.75 million.

The Grade II-listed Georgian mansion, built in 1807, has numerous office rooms. The Ogden Group is seeking smaller and more modern premises.

The property has planning permission to be converted into residential accommodation.

Toby Milbank, partner at agents Strutt and Parker, said they had had the same amount of interest in the property for offices as they had for residential use.

Meanwhile, Paul Sykes who developed the Meadowhall shopping centre in Sheffield, has placed his offices on the Stray in Harrogate on the market for £5 million. Beech Villa, Beech Lodge and Sloane Cottage, on The Esplanade, together make up 14,000 sq ft of office space with formal gardens.

They were built in the 1850s as a model development by the Duchy of Lancaster and became a hotel for many years before being converted into offices in 1990.

In 1913, E M Forster, author of Howard’s End and A Passage to India, stayed in the hotel while writing his controversial novel, Maurice.