Photographs and research by Robert Freidus. Text, perspective correction, and formatting by George P. Landow. You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the photographer and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]

Connaught Hotel (formerly the Coburg Hotel). Listed Building. Mount Street and Carlos Place. London W1. 1894-96. Architects: Lewis Isaacs and H. L. Florence. [Click on this image and those below to enlarge them.]

Volume 40 of The Survey of London explains that this five-story hotel of “red brick with lavish stone dressings [and] slate roof . . [in] free Jacobean-Renaissance style” was part of the late-nineteenth-century Grosvenor Estate redevelopment.

Two photographs of the portion of the façade with the main entrance.

Other buildings on Mount Street

Bibliography

Bradley, Simon, and Nikolaus Pevsner. London 6: Westminster. “The Buildings of England.” New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003.

"Connaught Hotel, Westminster." British Listed Buildings. Listing NGR: TQ2849480654. Web. 23 October 2011.


Last modified 23 October 2011