8 Eaton Lane

8 Eaton Lane returns a landmark French Second Empire mansion block, originally one of Britain's earliest serviced-apartment buildings, to residential life behind a meticulously restored red-brick-and-stone facade crowned by slate mansard roofs, oeil-de-boeuf windows and ornate dormers. Behind the heritage envelope sit contemporary lateral apartments, the historic Grosvenor Gardens frontage reserved for the grandest homes while quieter residences face Eaton Lane. Residents share a below-ground wellness centre built around a sixteen-metre pool, spa, steam room, sauna, gym and treatment rooms, alongside a private screening room and a generous entrance lobby, with a run of boutique retail animating the ground floor. The entirely electric, fossil-fuel-free rebuild wraps the listed structure in internal insulation to meet future energy standards without disturbing the protected exterior. Architecture is by Studio PDP with interiors by Millier London for developer CIT.