St. Ermin's Hotel, Autograph Collection

St. Ermin's Hotel is a four-star hotel in central London next to St James's Park Underground station, close to Westminster Abbey, Buckingham Palace and the Houses of Parliament. It is part of Marriott's Autograph Collection.

Tripadvisor's Travelers' Choice Best of the Best Hotels 2025, based on traveller reviews, ranks it No. 6 among the top hotels in the world.

The Grade II-listed building began as a horseshoe-shaped red-brick mansion block, designed by Edwin T. Hall and built in 1887–1889, and was converted into a hotel between 1896 and 1899; the theatre architect J. P. Briggs added richly decorated public rooms, a double-height foyer and a ballroom. From the 1930s it was a known meeting place of the British intelligence services: the Special Operations Executive was born there, and it served as a liaison point between the Cambridge spies Philby and Maclean and their Soviet handlers. The hotel was substantially refurbished after a change of ownership in 2010.

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