Lawn House CGI

Lawn House stands on the corner of The Lawn and Uxbridge Road, next to 2023’s award-winning Hoxton Hotel, partly shown. Previously a Barclays Bank and now vacant, it provides the opportunity to complete The Lawn’s decade-long transformation into a series of hotels with improved public realm. This hotel is proposed to contain 130 rooms, 60% with kitchenettes.

A significant feature of the public realm are the arches of the proposed building’s frontage, said to echo the railway arches nearby, alongside the 2017 conservation award-winning Bush Theatre. These could divide opinion, perhaps considered as sitting uncomfortably with the uniform warehouse chic of the Hoxton adjacent, or acting as a pastiche of the Dorsett’s heroic arches and roofline – let us know your views. For reference, below is a photo of the existing building, showing the adjacent part of the Hoxton with its awnings. 

The design has considered the adjacency and daylight/sunlight issues with residents in Pennard Road directly behind, and the developers, Lamington Group, have been in discussion with them for some time. 

Lawn House – as existing

B-Corp certified Lamington Group are a locally-based firm that is rapidly growing its boutique hotel chain business, which Lawn House is intended to join. In Chiswick you can visit one of the recently completed Room 2 hotels in Windmill Road, which replaced an uninspiring 70’s/80’s office block, and which shares a number of the characteristics of the proposed hotel here, but externally an aesthetic that actually echoes the Hoxton. The group was also behind the conversion of the Mission Hall which won the Tom Ryland award for conservation in 2021, and is now named Missionworks.

Interesting characteristics that emerged from our discussions with the developers include:

• The group intends to build, own and operate their estate, unlike so many other developers who have limited long term interest in their projects.
• The plan is to make all their hotels net-zero by targeting emissions from both operational and embodied carbon. The claim for the Chiswick one is “World’s first net zero hometel”.  The plan for this hotel is to achieve a whole-life EUI (Energy Use Intensity) of  90kWh/m²/year.
• To undertake the above conversion, and achieve the goals, the basic shell of the existing building is proposed to be retained.

For those interested, an introduction to the draft Net Zero standard is attached .

Further details are on the consultation website. 

Please let us have your thoughts on this scheme.