Batty Langley (1696 – 1751) published handbooks designed to help inexperienced clients plan their Georgian houses and gardens “in the most Grand Taste”.
They helped, too, in making Batty Langley's "one of the world's 50 best new hotels" - Travel & Leisure.
Batty Langley’s is quite unique, a quirky London boutique hotel that feels more like a private member’s club in the heart of Spitalfields.
There are 29 rooms and suites, all named after local historical characters, since the owners don’t believe in numbering their guests.
In your Club Double room you'll find a 17th Century carved oak bed or a Georgian four poster. Windows are hung with heavy silk curtains or wooden shutters.
The bathroom has restored Vintage plumbing fixtures and fittings, with either a cast iron roll-top bath or a period style shower.
Batty Langley's private chamber in the hotel is very much to his taste, complete with four-poster bed, walk-in shower, roll-top bath and a stylish terrace with lots of room to entertain. The concealed flat screen TV with Apple and media hub technology.
As with all rooms, air conditioning, WiFi, personal safe, stylish well-stocked mini bar and luxurious Ren toiletries are of course all there for you to enjoy.
Not to be confused with the more famous Viscount Bolingbroke, the third Earl developed the land around here as high-end housing for Huguenot immigrants from France.
He then built himself a grand mansion round the corner in Spital Square, demolished in 1890. His suite at Batty Langley’s still awaits him. It's on two levels, with a luggage lift to save you carrying your bags up to bed.
There’s a huge, sunny terrace with views to the Olympic Park. The marble bath is a genuine antique from Tuscany and the enormous canopy bed was built for a bishop.
Up-to-date fittings include a concealed flat screen TV with Apple and media hub technology.
Genuine antique furniture and pictures, ultra-comfortable beds and truly extraordinary bathrooms featuring restored Vintage roll-top baths, walk-in showers and throne loos.
For example, Peter Merzean’s room boasts an enormous antique ceramic bath with Carrara marble casing.
The other suites feature equally unforgettable fittings and furniture.
All rooms have air conditioning, WiFi, flat screen TV with Apple and media hub technology, personal safe, stylish well-stocked mini bar and luxurious Ren toiletries.
The beds here are either 17th Century carved oak or Georgian four posters. The bathrooms have restored period fittings, many with cast iron roll-top baths, Vintage showers and high level cisterns.
All rooms are air-conditioned and have complimentary Wi-Fi, flat screen television, mini bar, safe and Ren toiletries.
In years gone by, the Box Room was where you put the trunks and hat boxes.
At Batty Langley's, it's where owners put adventurous guests who appreciate its quirky charm - a tiny space fitted out like an old-fashioned ship's cabin.
The bed is a super-sumptuous French Regence showpiece.
The shower and loo are tucked away in elegant, mahogany-panelled alcoves, while the vanity unit looks just like an 18th century china cupboard.
There's a delightful view from the south-facing window, and even a compact desk with every conceivable tech connection to the world outside. With air-conditioning, complimentary Wi-Fi, flat screen television and Ren toiletries.
Best remembered as the subject of a nursery rhyme, Kitty was a well known 18th century London courtesan who started as a humble milliner in this area.
Ravishing looks and a sharp wit took her a long way.
Kitty’s boudoir, appropriately, has a lavish vintage four-poster and, in the bathroom, a genuine Victorian canopy bathing machine. There’s a balcony, and a separate sitting room with sofa bed. The flat screen TV with Apple and media hub technology is discreetly housed.
The beds are either 17th Century carved oak or Georgian four posters. Bathrooms have restored period fittings, many with cast iron roll-top baths, restored Vintage showers and high level cisterns.
Arrange to visit Dennis Severs`s House at 18 Folgate Street, left to the Spitalfields Trust by its creator when he died. Crammed with character, decorated and furnished exactly as it would have been in the 18th century, and with a fascinating story to tell, the house is one of London`s unforgettable visitor experiences.
Visit the Loyal United Friends` Synagogue at 19 Princelet Street.
Now also owned by the Spitalfields Trust and leased to the Museum of Immigration, the synagogue was built in 1862 by an obscure group of Jewish immigrants from Russia in the back garden of a 1719 terraced house, originally occupied by the Ogier family of silk merchants.
This elegant room has a picturesque Victorian lantern roof flooding the entrance with natural daylight.
This delightful, fully panelled sitting room is available for guests when it is not is use for small private gatherings.
This large, imposing space is hung with 17th century tapestries, The Folly and The Fountain, and features a large antique book case which doubles as an honesty bar.
BATTY LANGLEY'S
12 Folgate StE1 6BX London United Kingdom