Spencer House

An 18th-century aristocratic townhouse with meticulously restored state rooms and a terrace garden—visited by guided tour.

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Opening Hours

Daily: 10:30 AM – 4:30 PM

Layered neo-classical interiors reveal changing taste, power and patronage.

From entrance hall to Palm Room, the route is a time machine.

In each room, pick one detail (ceiling, frieze, chimneypiece) and ask how it signals status.

📍 Entrance on St James’s Place; small-group tours

A visitor favourite—light, gilding and proportion working in chorus.

Architecture as theatre: a finale before the garden.

Stand central; scan from floor to cornice to understand the room’s rhythm.

📍 Upper state floor

Urban greenery frames the house’s façade and offers context for elite London life.

A private landscape in the city’s densest quarter.

Note axial views back to the interiors—how inside and outside align.

📍 Rear terrace and grounds

The townhouse is one of London’s best-preserved aristocratic ‘palaces’ of the 1700s.
Rooms combine archaeological classicism with later restorations to period schemes.
Access is by guided visit, which concentrates interpretation and protects fragile interiors.