Berners Hotel, Grade II listed hotel in Westminster, London.
Berners Hotel is a Grade II listed building in Westminster, London, operating as a hotel with guest rooms, dining spaces, and event facilities across several floors. It stands on Berners Street, just off Oxford Street, and its interior features marble columns and ornamental plasterwork in the public areas.
The building was constructed between 1908 and 1910 to the design of architect John Slater, and it opened as a hotel shortly after completion. It changed hands several times over the following decades before undergoing a thorough renovation in the 2000s.
The hotel has long been associated with London's creative and literary circles, and that connection still shapes the feel of its public spaces. The ornamental plasterwork and marble columns in the lobby give visitors a sense of stepping into a building that was designed to impress from the start.
The hotel is a short walk from Oxford Circus station, which makes it easy to reach from most parts of central London. The ground-floor bar and restaurant are generally open to non-guests, so you can visit the public spaces without booking a room.
Berners Street, where the hotel stands, is also known for a hoax carried out in 1810, when a man named Theodore Hook arranged for an enormous number of deliveries and visitors to arrive at one address on the same day, bringing the area to a standstill. The hotel was built a century later on the same street that this episode made briefly famous.
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