Situated in a quiet, tree-lined street, the Cranley Hotel – like many in this area – occupies a Victorian townhouse with a brownstone and white stucco façade. It combines the best of established hotel tradition and service with the up-to-date technology expected from a top-class London hotel. Furnished with wonderful antiques, the interior boasts an air of understated elegance and sophistication. The colours used throughout the reception areas and the 36 guestrooms – striking combinations of Chinese blue, mustard, plum and stone – are derived from the original 19th-century floor tiles in the entrance hall. The guestrooms also feature queen-size, half-tester canopied beds, mahogany antique writing desks and en-suite limestone bathrooms with traditional Victorian style fittings. The hotel offers a generous hot and cold buffet every morning in its welcoming breakfast room, which is situated on the lower ground floor and appointed in an elegant style similar to the rest of the property.