Royal Horseguards Hotel

The Royal Horseguards Hotel is a luxury hotel that is located at 2 Whitehall Court in the Whitehall district of London, England. It is operated by the Clermont Hotel Group, a subsidiary of GL Limited of Singapore.

The Royal Horseguards Hotel
View of Whitehall Court
General information
Address	2 Whitehall Court London SW1A 2EJ
Coordinates	51.5055°N 0.1244°W / 51.5055; -0.1244
Opened	1884: building erected 1971: converted to hotel 2008: became a Guoman hotel
Management	Clermont Hotel Group
Technical details
Floor count	9
Other information
Number of rooms	282
Number of restaurants	2
Website
royalhorseguardshotel.com

History

Whitehall Court, as seen from the South Bank of the Thames

The building is the centre section of Whitehall Court, which was designed by Thomas Archer and A. Green. It was constructed as a block of luxury residential apartments in 1884.^[1] The building's construction was the centrepiece of an elaborate pyramid scheme for fraud by the Liberal MP and property developer Jabez Balfour, through the Liberator Building Society which he controlled. In 1892 the Society collapsed, leaving thousands of investors penniless. Instead of advancing money to home buyers, the Society had advanced money to property companies to buy properties owned by Balfour, at a high price.^[2][3] It achieved its listed building status due to its architecture, which is modelled on a French chateau.^[1]

The centre section of the building, 1-2 Whitehall Court, was converted to a hotel in 1971. The hotel expanded in 1985, when it acquired the 140 bedrooms above the adjoining National Liberal Club) at One Whitehall Place.^[4] The hotel was acquired by Guoman Hotels in 2008.^[5] It underwent a £20 million refurbishment at that time.^[5]

Media appearances

The World Branding Awards was held at One Whitehall Place, the events building of the Royal Horseguards Hotel, in 2014.^[6]

Location

The hotel is in Central London, just off the Embankment and Whitehall and near Trafalgar Square. The nearest tube station is Embankment and the nearest railway station is Charing Cross.^[7]