Templeton Garden Hides a Private Park in the Heart of Earl’s Court
Seven townhouses, one secret garden and a hotel live next to a series of classic London museums
Seven Victorian townhouses on a quiet West London street hold a secret: stitch them together and they wrap around a garden so large it reads as a public park. That garden gives Templeton Garden its name.
The property sits a few steps from Earl’s Court Tube station, the facade on Templeton Place still tracing the original townhouse rhythm. Miiro, the fast-growing lifestyle brand making its UK debut, opened it in 2025 after a full renovation. As a gesture of neighborliness, the garden welcomes more than hotel guests: residents whose buildings back onto the green can sit and read, or drop into the activities for children and adults that run all week.
Book a garden room and you get the best of it. Room 10, a suite with its own terrace facing the lawn, let us wake to birdsong instead of traffic, the clearest distillation of what Templeton Garden sells.
All 156 rooms lean on muted, neutral tones, warm wood and considered textiles, from the linens to the curtains. Small touches nod to Beatrix Potter, once a local; look for the animal-shaped coat hangers. Despite the 2025 reopening, every room feels like a genuinely traditional establishment—not old, not aggressively new. That balance took a chorus of British talent including interior design studio Thurstan, architecture firm Holland & Harvey, bespoke furniture studio Cox London, decorative artist Tess Newall and art consults from Art Story.
Downstairs, plenty of corners invite you to eat, read or linger with friends. Pippin’s, the modern British restaurant at the hotel’s heart, runs to 62 covers under chef Liam Fauchard-Newman. The dining room glows—warm, a little nostalgic, the kind of cosy that earns the word. Next door, Pip’s, a café and deli with its own street entrance, courts Earl’s Court locals as much as guests, the garden’s culinary counterpart.
Sprout, the cocktail bar, pours a menu that balances signature mainstays against an ever-changing roster of serves, many drawing on herbs grown in the garden. Come summer, the terrace opens out as an extension of the room, serving cocktails under the trees.
The Refresh Room, a Miiro signature every hotel should copy, earns its keep: if you arrive early or leave late, it hands you a shower, toiletries, a changing area and secure luggage storage while your room waits. We put the 24-hour gym to use too: high-spec kit, cardio machines, free weights and a dedicated stretching zone.
The Library makes the obvious case for an afternoon with a book. The space features sofas, deep chairs and a tight collection of British authors weighted toward Earl’s Court’s own literary and creative history.
Culture sits within walking distance. The Design Museum leads the list, and through 26 July 2026 the hotel’s “Art in the City” package bundles tickets to Wes Anderson: The Archives, the director’s first—and unmissable—retrospective. The Natural History Museum, V&A and Science Museum cluster nearby, with Leighton House and Sambourne House for stranger, quieter finds.
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