Windermere
Hotel
142/144 Warwick Way
Victoria
London SW1V 4JE Rating:
from AA
The site upon which the hotel stands
is steeped in history. The street overlooked by the
windows of the Windermere Hotel in London has seen Kings,
Queens, Princes, Abbotts and nobility pass by. Warwick
Way used to be called "The Abbott's Lane"
because it was the road that connected Westminster Abbey
with the Abbott's residence, known as Abbott's Grange.
Number 144 stands at the point where the gate to the
Abbott's Grange existed. The Abbott's Grange was the
rest and leisure centre enjoyed not only by the Abbott
and the monks, but also by the Kings and Princes of
Medieval England. Numbers 142 and 144 Warwick Way were
built in 1857 as a pair of private dwellings and are
fine examples of early Victorian classical design. Number
144 was probably the earliest "Bed and Breakfast"
Hotel in the area when in 1881 it became the locally
famous "Pimlico Rooms.
