House of Fraser will be closing a further four stores, all based in major shopping centres.
The closures will be in Lakeside, Metrocentre, Norwich and Nottingham, and will all begin in the New Year.
Mike Ashley has said that the closures are due to the landlord, Intu Properties, failing to reduce rent rates.
Mr Ashley said: "We were no further forward after 14 weeks. Unfortunately, these stores now face closing in the New Year. I urge other institutional landlords to be more proactive to help save the HoF stores in their schemes,"
Intu has also confirmed that no new deal had been made, saying: "House of Fraser stores in our portfolio will be closing in early 2019, representing around 1% of our secured rent and 526,000 sq ft of retail space.
"We are enthusiastic about the opportunity to re-engineer and re-let this underperforming space to new and exciting alternatives."
