Why you should experience Novotel London Brentford in London, England.
Novotel London Brentford is a contemporary hotel where Brentford's Golden Mile architecture, industrial inheritance, sporting culture and twenty-first-century regeneration converge within the Great West Quarter.
Set along Great West Road near Ealing Road and just steps from Gunnersbury Park, the hotel forms part of Great West Quarter, Assael Architects' redevelopment of the former GlaxoSmithKline site around the retained Grade II-listed Wallis House and a 1.1-hectare central piazza. Wallis House preserves one of the interwar factory buildings that once defined the Golden Mile, while the wider Assael masterplan introduced 900 homes and new commercial buildings around its restored Art Deco fabric. Novotel's purpose-built structure extended that architectural evolution with Leach Rhodes Walker Architects designing the hotel for Etoile Developments and Willmott Dixon delivering the project. The result is a hotel where GlaxoSmithKline, Assael Architects, Leach Rhodes Walker and Wallis House connect Brentford's twentieth-century industrial corridor with its contemporary hospitality landscape.
What you should know about Novotel London Brentford.
Novotel London Brentford is best known for opening in June 2014 as a purpose-built Novotel on the Great West Road, with Leach Rhodes Walker Architects working for Etoile Developments on a nine-storey hotel engineered by Manhire Associates and constructed by Willmott Dixon within the larger Great West Quarter. The completed property operates with 202 rooms, while contemporary project accounts describe a design developed for 206 bedrooms and integrated above a double-level basement as part of Assael Architects' wider masterplan. General Manager Jacqui McMillan led the hotel through its opening months in 2014, when the property introduced tablet-based mobile check-in and a distinctly contemporary interior approach to the Novotel brand. By the 2017/18 season, General Manager Terence Beach had developed the hotel's existing relationship with Brentford Football Club into an Official Club Supplier partnership, with Brentford's first team using the property before home matches for team meals and tactical analysis and the club housing new signings there during their arrival in West London. The sequence from Etoile Developments, Leach Rhodes Walker and Willmott Dixon through Jacqui McMillan, Terence Beach and Brentford Football Club gives Novotel London Brentford a factual character grounded in the architectural and sporting transformation of its immediate district.
Assael Architects supplies the larger urban narrative through Great West Quarter, a five-hectare transformation of the former GlaxoSmithKline site whose 900 homes were organized around the retained Wallis House and new public realm. The project accumulated substantial architectural recognition, including the 2008 British Homes Awards Housing Project of the Year and the 2012 New London Awards Conservation & Retrofit joint win for Wallis House, followed by an AJ Retrofit Awards shortlist in 2013 and Sunday Times British Homes Awards commendation in 2016 for Westgate House & The Tower. Brentford Football Club subsequently gave the hotel an unusually direct role within local professional sport, using Novotel London Brentford for first-team preparation before matches at Griffin Park and for new-player accommodation before the club's later move to its new stadium. Together, Assael Architects, Wallis House, Brentford Football Club and the Great West Quarter place the hotel within Brentford's progression from interwar corporate architecture through large-scale residential regeneration into Premier League-era sporting culture.
How to fold Novotel London Brentford into your trip.
Novotel London Brentford works as the anchor for an afternoon tracing Jacobean domestic architecture, Victorian mechanical engineering and the evolution of recorded music through Brentford.
Begin at Boston Manor House, completed in 1623 for Lady Mary Reade before the Clitherow family acquired it in the 1670s and expanded the house over subsequent centuries, leaving Brentford with a rare surviving Jacobean residence whose history extends through more than four centuries. Continue to London Museum of Water & Steam, where the Grand Junction Water Works Company opened Kew Bridge Pumping Station in 1838 and installed some of the most advanced steam-powered pumping machinery of its period before the works ceased operation in 1944 and eventually reopened as a museum during the 1970s. Conclude at The Musical Museum, founded by Frank Holland MBE in 1963 from an initial collection of half a dozen reproducing pianos before becoming the British Piano Museum charitable trust in 1966 and developing a nationally significant collection exceeding 20,000 music rolls alongside self-playing pianos, violins, organs and early sound-reproduction technology. The progression moves from Lady Mary Reade and the Clitherow family through the Grand Junction Water Works Company into Frank Holland's preservation of mechanical music, revealing the architectural, engineering and collecting histories surrounding Novotel London Brentford.
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