Spencer House
What Visitors Say
Magnificent place to visit during anytime of the year. Wonderful staff and amazing guides with so much knowledge. Depending on time and date guided tours can get bigger or smaller.
One hour guided tour only available on Sunday to see the beautifully restored opulent interior of the many Earl’s of Spencer London residence. Well worth it as a fascinating historical insight into the changing fortunes of the property.
The small-group guided tour didn't show all the rooms but only a few, even though, it was more than engaging and informative. Our guide was enjoyable to listen to. An interesting emerging history lesson. The house somehow maintains its nostalgic elegance with some basic furnitures on display, some of which replicas. It's beautiful without being luxurious or pompous. Centrally located yet tucked away from the noisy and crowd.
A very grand house behind the Ritz, not often open. You must book on a tour for access. Beautifully restored. Now used for functions.
Very beautiful house. The tour guides are very knowledgeable and kind. There is a coat rack.
Highlights
State Rooms Tour
Layered neo-classical interiors reveal changing taste, power and patronage.From entrance hall to Palm Room, the route is a time machine.
Entrance on St James’s Place; small-group tours
Palm Room Focus
A visitor favourite—light, gilding and proportion working in chorus.Architecture as theatre: a finale before the garden.
Upper state floor
Garden View
Urban greenery frames the house’s façade and offers context for elite London life.A private landscape in the city’s densest quarter.
Rear terrace and grounds
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
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.
