Fourth Young's pub set to become hotel

Young & Co, the 183-strong London-based pub operator and brewer, is converting a fourth property into a hotel.

The Two Brewers pub in Wandsworth, south London, is to become a 16-bedroom hotel early next year and its ground floor is to comprise a wine bar, lounge bar and ale house, with total seating for 160 people.

The company first converted one of its pubs into a hotel four years ago, when it renamed its property in Greenford, west London, as the Bridge Hotel.

Since then it has converted its properties in Chertsey, Surrey, and Clapham, south London, into the Crown Hotel and the Windmill on the Common hotel respectively. Both have 30 bedrooms.

Planning permission has been granted to change two further pubs into hotels. Terry O'Connor, director of Young & Co's hotels and restaurants division, said he hoped they would be ready next year.

The Duke's Head in Wallington, Surrey, is to have 28 bedrooms, and the Pub's Grotto in Twickenham, south-west London, is to have 42.

All the hotels have AA three-star ratings and Mr O'Connor said the average occupancy during 1993 was about 65-70%.