Why you should experience DoubleTree London Greenwich in London, England.
DoubleTree London Greenwich is an urbane hotel where Greenwich's interwar institutional architecture, metropolitan discipline, maritime character and design heritage converge within a former Metropolitan Police section house on Catherine Grove.
Set along Catherine Grove near Greenwich High Road and just steps from Deptford Bridge Station, the building was conceived during the 1930s as Maurice Drummond House, providing residential accommodation for Metropolitan Police officers within an imposing multi-storey composition distinguished by strong horizontal lines, curved corners and disciplined brickwork. Its architectural quality received national professional attention when the Royal Institute of British Architects awarded the former section house its London Architectural Medal in 1946, giving the building a design pedigree unusual among London hotels. The surviving structure preserves the scale and institutional confidence of its original purpose while its elevated position and upper levels establish commanding perspectives across Greenwich toward the wider London skyline. The result is a hotel where Maurice Drummond House, the Metropolitan Police and the Royal Institute of British Architects give Greenwich's quieter western edge a hospitality character grounded in twentieth-century architectural distinction.
What you should know about DoubleTree London Greenwich.
DoubleTree London Greenwich is best known for emerging from a major hospitality conversion approved in 2011, when Periquin Limited, controlled by Lady Rona Delves Broughton, secured permission to transform the long-empty Catherine Grove property into a proposed 168-room boutique hotel called The Greenwich. The redevelopment evolved into the 145-room Mercure London Greenwich, which prepared to open in November 2012 after extensive interior reconstruction and the addition of two upper floors containing penthouse accommodation overlooking London. Hilton's DoubleTree brand assumed the property in February 2017 following another renovation that established 147 rooms, making it the first Hilton-branded hotel in Greenwich under general manager Rory O'Leary. The sequence from Lady Rona Delves Broughton and Periquin Limited through Mercure and finally Hilton compressed two major hotel identities, multiple room configurations and substantial architectural intervention into six years of reinvention.
O1 Restaurant preserves one of the property's most unusual internal inheritances by occupying a former firearms shooting gallery, turning a space created around police training into the hotel's principal dining room. Oasis O1 Bar extends the named dining program, while the eighth-floor viewing deck introduced another distinctive element through elevated views toward Central London and Greenwich Park. Visit Greenwich recorded Tripadvisor Travellers' Choice recognition for the property in 2020, adding contemporary hospitality recognition to the building's earlier architectural distinction. Together, Lady Rona Delves Broughton, Periquin Limited, Mercure, Hilton, Rory O'Leary and O1 Restaurant give DoubleTree London Greenwich an unusually traceable modern evolution from institutional building to independent redevelopment, international hotel branding and contemporary Greenwich hospitality.
How to fold DoubleTree London Greenwich into your trip.
DoubleTree London Greenwich works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing theatrical reinvention, specialist collecting and royal architectural experimentation through Greenwich.
Begin at Greenwich Theatre, where John Green established the Rose and Crown Music Hall more than 150 years ago before Charles Crowder reopened it in 1871, John George Buckle rebuilt it as the Parthenon Theatre of Varieties and Ewan Hooper spearheaded its October 21, 1969 rebirth with his musical Martin Luther King; subsequent productions brought Mia Farrow, Charles Dance, Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Jonathan Miller and Max Wall through a stage whose history spans music hall, cinema and postwar repertory theater. Continue to The Fan Museum, founded in 1991 by fan authority Hélène Alexander MBE and her husband A.V. Alexander OBE inside two restored Grade II early Georgian townhouses, where collections devoted exclusively to fan history and craftsmanship have supported more than 80 exhibitions and welcomed more than 300,000 visitors. Conclude at Queen's House, commissioned by Anne of Denmark from Inigo Jones in 1616, resumed for Henrietta Maria in 1632 and structurally completed in 1635 before Charles II added the East and West Bridge Rooms in 1661-62 and granted Willem van de Velde the Elder and Younger a studio there in 1673-74. The progression moves from Buckle and Hooper's evolving performance space through Hélène Alexander's intensely specialized collecting into Inigo Jones and the Van de Veldes' royal artistic world, giving DoubleTree London Greenwich a surrounding itinerary as layered as the building's own unusual institutional history.
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