The Ministry of Defence is reported to have sold Northumberland House to Masterworks Development Corporation for more than £30 million. The Grade II listed building in central London, which enjoyed life as the 500-room Hotel Victoria between 1887 and 1940, may have chance to rekindle such memories thanks to its new American owners. They want to refurbish the building and open it as a hotel with some 200 rooms that would form part of the Club Quarters portfolio. Club Quarters offers those signed up as members access to a collection of private, full service hotels, of which two are already to be found in London.