Why you should experience Hampton London Park Royal in London, England.
Hampton London Park Royal is a streamlined Art Deco hotel where Park Royal's interwar modernism, industrial ambition, transport innovation and metropolitan expansion converge within the surviving frontage of the historic Park Royal Hotel.
Set along Western Avenue near Hanger Green and just steps from Park Royal Station, the hotel preserves the Art Deco frontage of an interwar building conceived as part of a remarkably coordinated modernist ensemble surrounding the Underground station. Architects Herbert Welch and Felix Lander shaped the neighboring station, shops and flats around a circular ticket hall, curving retail parade and commanding tower, extending the architectural language associated with Charles Holden and London Transport chief executive Frank Pick into this western gateway to London. The Park Royal Hotel completed that streetscape through its horizontal façade and entrance, establishing a visual relationship with Hanger Court, Hanger Green and Welch and Lander's transport architecture that remains legible despite nearly a century of change. The result is a hotel where Herbert Welch, Felix Lander, Charles Holden and Frank Pick frame Park Royal's interwar confidence through an unusually concentrated surviving composition of hospitality and transport design.
What you should know about Hampton London Park Royal.
Hampton London Park Royal is best known for opening in September 2020 after a £26 million redevelopment transformed the former Park Royal Hotel site into a 162-room Hampton by Hilton while retaining the historic Art Deco frontage. Starboard Hotels developed and managed the new property, completing the hotel during the COVID-19 pandemic before holding its delayed official opening celebration in November 2021. The project placed Hilton's Hampton brand within one of Park Royal's defining interwar architectural settings, directly opposite Park Royal Station, a Grade II-listed structure completed in 1936 by Herbert Welch and Felix Lander as part of London Transport's New Works Programme of 1935-40. Welch had previously worked with Raymond Unwin and Frederick Etchells, including on the pioneering 233 High Holborn office building of 1930, while Lander had worked for Adams, Holden and Pearson, giving the station complex direct professional connections with both garden-city planning and Charles Holden's celebrated Underground architecture. The station received Grade II protection in 1987, preserving the circular clerestory-lit ticket hall, tall square tower and curving parade that establish the architectural context immediately surrounding Hampton London Park Royal.
Park Royal's larger twentieth-century character developed through industrial expansion of exceptional scale, growing from only 12 factories across the wider Wembley, Acton and Willesden area in 1914 to 140 by the early 1930s. Arthur Guinness Son & Co. became one of the district's defining industrial names when its enormous Park Royal Brewery was constructed between 1933 and 1936 under engineer Alexander Gibb with Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, whose architectural career also encompassed Battersea Power Station and Bankside Power Station. Guinness opened the brewery in 1936 to supply southern Britain, and the complex became a major West London production center before Guinness merged with Grand Metropolitan to create Diageo in 1997. Brewing at Park Royal ended in 2005 and the vast complex was demolished in 2006, closing almost seven decades of local production. Together, Alexander Gibb, Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, Guinness and Diageo place Hampton London Park Royal within a district whose interwar architecture grew alongside one of Britain's most consequential concentrations of twentieth-century industry.
How to fold Hampton London Park Royal into your trip.
Hampton London Park Royal works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing transport design, Regency architectural experimentation and West London social history through Acton and Ealing.
Begin at London Transport Museum Depot, opened in Acton in October 1999 as the principal repository for material not displayed at the Covent Garden museum, with 6,000 square meters of storage accommodating hundreds of thousands of objects alongside substantial vehicles including a complete 1938 Stock Underground train and early locomotives from London's pioneering subterranean railways. Continue to Pitzhanger Manor, where Sir John Soane purchased the estate for £4,500 in 1800 and retained part of an earlier George Dance extension on which he had worked as a young apprentice before constructing his own country residence between 1800 and 1804 as both a family home and demonstration of his architectural ideas. Conclude at Gunnersbury Park Museum, opened in 1929 and now holding 50,000 museum and archive objects interpreting the histories of Ealing and Hounslow within the Gunnersbury estate. The progression moves from London's accumulated transport history through Soane's intensely personal architectural laboratory into a museum preserving the social history of West London, revealing the broader culture of engineering, design and collecting surrounding Hampton London Park Royal.
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