Mews Classics are west facing overlooking the Mews. Each has a working fireplace and king size bed dressed with custom linens and framed mahogany paneled back rests. The bathroom offers a spacious walk in shower, marble console and separate WC. Mews Classics have floor to ceiling windows, a large armchair with table, double wardrobes and separate drinks bar with a personal fridge.
I suppose I might have walked past the Manchester Square Fire Station, as it was once known, in my walks around town, but I am embarrassed to say I have no memory of ever doing so. When I heard that André Balazs, the owner of New York's Mercer Hotel and Hollywood's Chateau Marmont (before whose name it is almost obligatory to place the word 'legendary') planned to convert this large derelict building, one of London's very first purpose-built firehouses, into a restaurant and 26-suite hotel I murmured a silent secular prayer for him and thought little more of it. Bless. I mean, Marylebone? And not even bustling Marylebone High Street, but some lost thoroughfare in the anonymous hinterland east of Baker Street.