This is the first look at a £60m luxury hotel – complete with its own butterfly house in the lobby – which is due to open in Syon Park in November.
Visitors to the Waldorf Astoria will be able to enjoy trout fishing, an ice-cream parlour and a celebrity plastic surgeon will even be on hand if guests would like a discreet nip and tuck.
Hilton Worldwide announced on Wednesday it would open the 137-room hotel, in the Grade I listed estate owned by the Duke of Northumberland, before the end of the year.
Ralph Percy, the Duke of Northumberland, said: “I am very pleased a Waldorf Astoria hotel will be opening in Syon Park, which has been my family’s London home for more than 400 years.
“Construction of the hotel included the restoration of a number of important historic features designed by the great landscape architect Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown.
“Future additional revenue will also enable restoration work to Syon House itself, which contains arguably one of Robert Adams’s finest interiors.”
John Vanderslice, global head of luxury and lifestyle brands at Hilton Worldwide, said guests could expect a “truly luxurious experience with the highest level of service and comfort in exceptional surroundings”.
Guests will be able to relax in the tranquil 200 acre park and will have exclusive access to Syon House gardens and activities, including trout fishing.
They will also enjoy a swimming pool, a full sensory spa and five restaurants and bars, while business travellers can use state-of-the-art conference facilities.
Project architect Theo Manzaroli, of Ettwein Bridges Architects, said his firm had been working with the duke and property company Ability Group since 2001.
He said: “The planning application was a complicated issue because it’s in metropolitan open land, and you can’t normally build hotels in that situation, in a Grade I listed landscape. It’s enabling development through the removal of inappropriate buildings on the site that have been left over from the 1960s.
“They became delapidated and more unsightly – they became part of the car park, which was becoming an unsightly dumping ground.”
The developers will use funding to help ongoing maintenance of Syon Park, which has included extending the river and planting 4,000 trees.
Mr Manzaroli added: “It’s also providing a considerable number of jobs.”
Andreas Panayiotou, Ability Group chairman, said: “Building a Waldorf Astoria hotel in such a stunning location as Syon Park is a rare opportunity not to be missed.
“We’re creating a true destination hotel, which benefits from the proximity of London and the tranquillity of the countryside.”
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