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The
Colonnade Hotel (previously known as The Esplanade hotel) is a
4-star London hotel with 43 rooms, of which three are suites. The
hotel is located opposite Warwick Avenue Underground station and
Little Venice.
The
hotel started life as two private Victorian residences in 1865
before being turned into a boarding school in 1880. In 1886, it
became the Warrington Lodge Medical and Surgery Home for Ladies.
The
mathematician Alan Turing was born there in 1912. In 1935 the
hospital was converted into The Esplanade Hotel.
Sigmund
Freud stayed at the hotel during the summer of 1938 when he was
renovating his house in Hampstead. To honour his stay the hotel
renamed the best suite the "Sigmund Freud suite".
In
1944, the hotel was bought by the Richards family and its name
was changed to the Colonnade Hotel. The hotel changed hands again
in 1998 when it was purchased and renovated by the current
owners, The Eton Collection.
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