The front door is forest green, the steps are laid in Victorian tile, and the façade is the terraced stucco of a private house on Templeton Place, just behind Earl's Court's high street. That is what the building was: seven Victorian townhouses, joined together and converted into a hotel in the 1970s. Templeton Garden, which opened in April 2025 as Miiro's first hotel in Britain, keeps the front exactly as it found it and spends its ambition at the back, where a long private lawn runs the depth of the plot. The garden here is no mere backdrop; the whole hotel is arranged around it.
Miiro is a young brand owned by InterGlobe Enterprises, with Le Grand Hôtel Cayré in Paris, The Mansard in Gstaad and Borneta in Barcelona already in its portfolio. Earl's Court is the first British stop, and the house style is lighter and more residential than the address might suggest: curated rather than corporate, with the feel of a large home.
“The floor nobody wanted to sleep on becomes the floor nobody needs to.”
A glasshouse for a terrace
Holland Harvey opened the ground floor towards the lawn with a glass rear extension, designed to echo a row of Victorian conservatories. The result is a sightline from the front door straight through to the garden, and a lobby that fills with daylight. Inside, the original ornate staircases still climb between the seven floors, a reminder that these were houses long before they were a hotel. Downstairs, the basement has been put to useful work: a gym, a private dining room with curved windows onto the garden, and the Refresh Room, a place to shower, change and charge a phone before check-in or after check-out.
The interiors are by James Thurstan Waterworth of the studio Thurstan, formerly European design director at Soho House. The palette is earthy: sepia walls, rosy velvet seating, grained wooden tables, with upcycled materials and antique furniture sourced locally. The neighbourhood supplies the stories. Beatrix Potter is Earl's Court's most famous artist in residence, and she turns up quietly, in brass coat hooks shaped like the heads of small animals. The library off the lobby, curated by the writer Raven Smith, is dedicated to the area's creative history, with Potter and Agatha Christie among its muses.
The room to book
Book a Templeton Garden Suite on the ground floor. The suites bring terracotta tones, linen textures, freestanding baths, super-king four-poster beds and floor-length windows, and each has a private terrace with direct access to the central lawn. It is a Victorian idea of the bath and the bed as furniture, carried out in a garden-level room.
Upstairs, the rooms are brighter. Some have balconies and others look down on the garden, and the bathrooms are tiled in raspberry or pearl with Perrin & Rowe brassware. The garden is quiet enough that a fox cub has been seen asleep on the lawn, which is the sort of detail no designer can specify.
Pippin's, Sprout and the kitchen garden
The kitchen belongs to Liam Fauchard-Newman, executive head chef, who arrived from Holborn Dining Room at the Rosewood London and earlier cooked at The Ledbury and Kitchen W8. His restaurant, Pippin's, is modern British and comforting, with herbs grown in the hotel's own garden and produce from the British Isles. The menu includes chicken and chips and rhubarb and custard, and Fauchard-Newman has called the cooking playful and meant to warm the soul. Lunch is served on the lawn in good weather, there is a traditional Sunday roast, and hot drinks come with blankets when the weather turns. Tess Newall, the decorative artist, painted the foliage mural, and abstract works by Bethany Holmes, curated by Art Story, hang in the restaurant, bar and library.
Pip's is the street-facing café and deli, with fluted glass and weathered timber, selling coffee, bread and pastries by day. The bar is Sprout, lit by an oak-branch chandelier by Cox London, where bar manager Dominic Royle builds each drink around one anchoring idea: a colour, an ingredient, a garnish. Start with the Crystal Mint Grasshopper, a velvety peppermint drink with Ocho tequila, peach amazake, vetiver and a dusting of chocolate. The Strawberries and Cream, with Lakes pink grapefruit gin, clarified cream and strawberry, can be added to the Hidden Garden Afternoon Tea, whose sandwiches, scones and cakes draw on the garden's produce.
Around Earl's Court
The hotel sits a few minutes from Earl's Court station, and the neighbourhood is more literary than its reputation. Alfred Hitchcock and Agatha Christie both lived in the area, Freddie Mercury's former home at Garden Lodge is nearby, and Brompton Cemetery, one of London's Victorian Magnificent Seven, holds the graves of Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr John Snow. Museum Row in Kensington, with the V&A, the Natural History Museum and the Science Museum, is a short trip north.
By dusk the lawn goes blue under the trees, the windows of Pippin's glow along the back of the terrace, and the seven houses finally look the right way round.
