Hammersmith & Fulham Council approved a 171-room hotel for Grove House on Hammersmith Grove beside hammersmith Underground station on 27 April, giving Legendre UK permission to convert the five-storey office block into mixed-use space. Work is expected to start in the first quarter of next year and finish in summer 2028.
The scheme will deliver more than 6,500 sqm of new accommodation, including 5,500 sqm of hotel space, 250 sqm of affordable office workspace and around 1,000 sqm of ground-floor commercial space. For businesses, local groups and hotel operators, the plan turns a long-vacant office building into a site with rooms, work areas and public-facing uses in one address.
Grove House on Hammersmith Grove
Grove House was completed in 1949 and was designed by Sir John Burnet Tait & Partners. It had been marketed since 2022 with little success and was vacated in 2023 after struggling to attract tenants, leaving the redevelopment team to choose adaptation over demolition.
The project keeps the existing frame and repurposes it for hotel, commercial and community use. The hotel will contain 171 rooms across 33 room types, including 18 accessible rooms, while the ground floor will hold a restaurant, bar, café, lounge, games room and outdoor seating.
Workspace and community uses
250 sqm of affordable office workspace is set aside for small businesses and start-ups in the borough, alongside retail units, exhibition areas, wellness facilities and co-working space. A 131-seat auditorium that can be used as a theatre will also be made available for local groups.
Nicolas Swiderski, head of property development at Legendre UK, said the approval “creates dynamic and versatile spaces across retail, office, leisure and the arts, embedding social value and meeting occupiers’ evolving needs for inner-city accommodation.”
Legendre UK’s second conversion
The approval extends a retrofit-first approach that avoids a full rebuild and keeps the structure in place. The project is the second major office-to-hotel conversion delivered by the Legendre–C&P–Candour partnership, after planning consent in 2025 for the former Diageo headquarters in Park Royal.
For the borough, the practical change is immediate: a prominent vacant office building beside one of west London’s busiest transport nodes is moving into a timetable for construction rather than continued marketing. If the schedule holds, the first visible site activity should arrive in the first quarter of next year, with the hotel and its ancillary uses set to open in summer 2028.
