Located on Grosvenor Square, one of Mayfair’s most sought-after addresses, on the second floor of a Neo-Georgian apartment block, this 1,218 sq. ft. two-bedroom, two-bathroom lateral apartment is available to rent for £2,301 per week (£9,970 pcm), via Wetherell (Lettings). The residence offers a rare opportunity to live overlooking Grosvenor Square ahead of its upcoming unveiling as a transformed urban oasis.
The striking apartment building on Grosvenor Square stands on a site with a history stretching back to 1729, when the original house was built by architect Edward Shepherd – for building lessee and carpenter Lawrence Neale – as one of the grandest addresses to emerge from Sir Richard Grosvenor’s ambitious 1725–31 development of his Mayfair estate. Over the following two centuries it became home to some of the most eminent figures in British public life – among them the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, Ambassador to France and Sir James Weir Hogg, M.P. and Chairman of the East India Company. Residents have exclusive access to the building’s elegant ballroom which can hold up to 350 guests, or up to 200 guests for a seated dinner, an unrivalled hosting opportunity to entertain and delight.
The Neo-Georgian style red brick and stone façade seen today was constructed in 1927 and rebuilt in 1958 following bomb damage sustained during the Blitz – its soaring columns, balustraded terraces and arched entrance doorways a fitting introduction to the apartment within.
Accessed via lift and benefitting from a 24-hour concierge service, the newly redecorated apartment opens into an entrance hall which leads to an impressive, light-filled open-plan reception, dining room and kitchen extending to over 32 feet in length. With high ceilings, wide windows and parquet flooring throughout, it provides the perfect space for dining and entertaining.
The kitchen is fitted with sleek, white gloss cabinetry, dark granite worktops and fully integrated appliances, allowing the room to function as a single, cohesive living space. In the reception room, period features have been retained, including a mantelpiece flanked by striking built-in oak shelving units to either side, alongside a matching media wall, combining original character with a modern touch. There is also air conditioning throughout.
Both bedrooms are generously proportioned doubles, each with built-in storage and their own en suite bathroom. The second bedroom is equally well suited to guests or home working.
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Grosvenor Square itself was commissioned by Sir Richard Grosvenor, who in 1720 tasked his estate surveyor Thomas Barlow with developing the family’s Hundred Acre estate in Mayfair. Originally laid out by gardener John Alston in the 1720s, his ‘wilderness worke’ design was a celebration of the countryside in the city – an exclusive aristocratic enclave strictly accessed only by key-holding residents that quickly became the place to “see and be seen”, a prestigious residential haven for politicians, statesmen and the mega-wealthy. The oval garden is believed to be the first of its kind in London and inspired the form of squares across the capital.
Home to the United States Embassy from 1938, until a new one was built on the western side of the square in 1960 – Grosvenor Square’s American associations run deep. John Adams, the first United States Minister to the Court of St. James’s and future second President of the United States rented the nearby number 9 in 1785 – his wife Abigail describing the garden as “one of the prettiest squares in London.” During the Second World War, General Eisenhower – later the 34th president of the United States – established his headquarters at neighbouring number 20, earning the square the nickname “Eisenhowerplatz” and making it the heart of the capital’s “Little America”.
The square’s garden, now managed by the Royal Parks, is home to a constellation of listed memorials: the statue of President Roosevelt, unveiled in 1948 in the presence of Eleanor Roosevelt and King George VI; the Eagle Squadrons Memorial, topped by a bronze eagle sculpted by Dame Elisabeth Frink; the Diplomatic Gates, commemorating the Treaty of Paris; and a 9/11 memorial garden on the east side commemorating the 67 Britons who lost their lives.
Grosvenor Square has witnessed some of the twentieth century’s most charged cultural moments. In 1968, protests against the Vietnam War drew John Lennon, Mick Jagger and Vanessa Redgrave to its railings, events that may have inspired, in part, Street Fighting Man by the Rolling Stones and Revolution by The Beatles.
Furthering its cultural footprint, Oscar Wilde lived on the square between 1883 and 1884, referencing it in four of his works, and it serves as the central setting for Julia Quinn’s The Duke and I, also known as the Bridgerton novels and the Netflix series of the same name.
In 2026, Grosvenor is executing a multi-million-pound redesign led by architecture practice Tonkin Liu, reinstating the historic 1720s oval layout with groundbreaking
