London, United Kingdom

Templeton Garden

Price per night from$229.21

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Style

Secret-garden hideaway

Setting

Stuccoed Earl’s Court

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Dashing townhouses with a botanical bent, boutique hotel Templeton Garden is tucked away from West London’s bustle on a verdant square near Kensington, but close enough to dip into the capital’s whirl. You can expect Victorian bones, a gardener’s soul (seductively landscaped gardens are the heart of this hotel), and just enough eccentricity to keep things interesting. For lovers of leafy corners and tea-fuelled lie-ins, Templeton Garden is your quietly confident city escape.

 

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A signature cocktail each, and £30 to spend at Pippin’s, the hotel’s restaurant

Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

156, including 12 suites.

Check–Out

Check-out is at noon and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability for an extra charge.

More details

Most rates are room-only, but you can buy breakfast at Pippin's for £25 a day. Your day-starting options run from warm pastries to eggs Benedict and the mighty Full English.

Also

Two of the lower-ground-floor Superior rooms have been adapted for guests with limited mobility, hearing and sight. Deafguard fire-alarm systems are installed, there are emergency cords and the bathroom has a roll-in shower, handle bars and a lowered sink. Please note that there are stairs up to the main entrance, but there's ramped access to the lower ground floor; from there, a lift services all floors.

At the hotel

Library and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: climate control, HD TV, Nespresso coffee machine, tea-making kit, minibar (free with Suites), free bottled water and Le Labo bath products. The Classic – Garden View rooms and up come with bathrobes and slippers, too.

Our favourite rooms

If you’re not booking one of the generously proportioned suites, the Classic Garden View is our tip. Cosy yet full of quintessential English charm, it’s a showcase of considered design and a celebration of nature: a soothing earthy colour palette calms the senses (as do the soft mohair and linen materials), a thoughtfully placed armchair (perfect for reading that book you borrowed from the hotel’s library) grants views over the manicured garden. The Single, as you might expect, is oh-so-tiny, and so is best-suited for those who plan to be out and about.

Spa

There’s no spa at Templeton Garden but a 24-hour gym is available with a dedicated stretching area, wood-finished NOHRD equipment and free weights.

Packing tips

Stomping shoes for the museums; fancy (but not too fancy) footwear for the area’s watering holes that range from proper boozers to cool cocktail bars. And your own slippers, if you’re staying in a Classic or Single room (these are provided in higher room types).

Also

Templeton Garden has a Refresh Room, which is designed for those looking to arrive before check-in or linger after check-out; it comes with a changing room and shower, Le Labo bath products and charging points.

Pet‐friendly

Furry companions (weighing up 10 kilogrammes) are welcome for free in all rooms and common areas. The hotel provides dog bowls, beds and treats. You’ll need to pay a £100 deposit at check-in as a ‘just in case’ measure. See more pet-friendly hotels in London.

Children

Welcome. Baby cots are available for free when requested ahead of arrival.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Right by the huge bay windows that frame the beautiful garden like a piece of art.

Dress Code

Quiet luxury with a West London twist, perhaps: we’re thinking Agolde jeans, a Margiela blazer shrugged over a crisp white tee, finished with Celine shades. Or Mrs Smith may wish to blend in with the botany and don a floral dress by Erdem.

Hotel restaurant

Branching off the main foyer, Pippin’s is where executive chef Liam Fauchard-Newman (previously at Holborn Dining Room) plates up modern British dishes, including a tarragon-stuffed take on chicken and chips. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served here, in a dining room that brings the outdoors in with garden-inspired prints, sage-green seating and a pale-oak parquet floor.

Hotel bar

Long on warmly lit intimacy and all out of pretension, Sprout is a feast for the eyes before the first sip thanks to artist Tess Newall’s leafy mural and Cox London’s talking-point oak-branch chandelier. Bar director Will Meredith (ex Lyan Group) builds each experimental cocktail around a garden-inspired ingredient. Expect creations that taste like seasonal market hauls: we’re eyeing the Tomato Collins made with tomato consommé, strawberry wine, Courvoisier, Aperol and a dash of fizz.

Last orders

Pippin’s serves from 7am until 9.30pm, Wednesday to Sunday; on Mondays and Tuesdays, breakfast runs until 10.30am with limited lunch and dinner service. Sprout pours from noon until 11pm, Monday to Friday; from 11am on Saturdays; until 10pm on Sundays.

Room service

Available to order to your door between 7am and 10pm daily.

Location

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Address
Templeton Garden
1-15 Templeton Place
London
SW5 9NB
United Kingdom

West London luxury hotel Templeton Garden stands overlooking leafy Templeton Place, near Earl’s Court, and is handily placed for South Kensington’s museums, as well as Hyde Park.

Planes

Heathrow Airport is the closest — a 45-minute cab-ride away — while London Gatwick and Stansted are around an hour’s drive from Templeton Garden. Staff can arrange private airport transfers at additional cost on request.

Trains

All corners of London are within easy reach, with Tube stations Earl’s Court (five-minutes’ walk; Piccadilly and District lines) and Gloucester Road (10 to 12 minutes’ walk; Circle line) nearby. For national-rail connections, London Paddington and London Victoria are your nearest hubs.

Automobiles

Limited on-site parking is available on a first come, first served basis, from £40 for 24 hours. Our advice is to skip the capital’s congestion charge (a traffic-reduction levy) and leave your wheels behind: Templeton Garden is brilliantly located for getting around by London’s iconic cherry-red buses and nippy Tube.

Worth getting out of bed for

Kick off gently with a morning wander through Earl’s Court’s postcard crescents, followed by a lazy browse along Old Brompton Road — indie bookshops, antique nooks (Les Couilles du Chien) and that one dangerously good wine merchant (duck into Handford Wines for a cheeky bottle). Grab a pistachio croissant from Over Under or settle into a booth at Troubadour, the storied café-bar where Bob Dylan strummed and Ed Sheeran once squeezed in. South Kensington’s museums are temptingly close. But the real pull is Templeton Garden’s walled oasis — landscaped, leafy and just louche enough: best paired with a Negroni and no intention of leaving.

Local restaurants

Nearby is Jackson Boxer’s Dove, which plates up inventive yet comforting plates pulling on pan-European influences. For casual brilliance, head to Portobello Road’s Permit Room — Dishoom’s buzzy Bombay-inflected, all-day bar-café — for crispy chaat, moreish curries and whole-chicken tandooris. As for something sharper, jump in a cab to 45 Jermyn Street, where oysters and martinis are dished with impeccable service.

 

Local bars

Small but mighty Twice Shy shakes serious cocktails and pours natural wines by the glass, all set to a vinyl-heavy soundtrack that makes you want to linger. Pubbier but no less polished, The Pelican in Notting Hill has an elevated wine list and pints, top-notch bar snacks, and smart wood panelling.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this leafy London bolthole and unpacked their antique finds and retro vinyls from Portobello, a full account of their design-led, quietly decadent break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Templeton Garden…

Templeton Garden marks the UK debut of Miiro Hotels, a hospitality brand with a growing collection of Smith-approved stays across the Continent. In collaboration with Holland & Harvey (the architects behind Corner at Tate Modern) and interior-design studio Thurstan (of Soho House Istanbul and Robuchon fame), Miiro has reimagined six Victorian townhouses into a sprawling yet supremely inviting retreat — and with a landscaped garden that steals the show.

Service flexes to fit: warm and present when you need it, happily hands-off when you don’t. In the library — yes, with actual books — guest curators such as Vogue columnist Raven Smith are invited to stock a shelf with personal favourites. For a hotel that’s minutes from Earl’s Court, the atmosphere is surprisingly soothing. A well-dressed sanctuary that feels more like a private home than a hotel — and a welcome pause from London’s brisk pace.

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