The Ned
A City of London hotel in the former Midland Bank, with 250 bedrooms, Ned's Club Spa and restaurants across the grand banking hall.
The Ned is banking history with a martini in hand. Housed in the former Midland Bank headquarters, it takes Sir Edwin “Ned” Lutyens’ architecture and gives it a 1920s-social-club second act.
After an eight-year vacancy, Soho House & Co revived the building with Art Deco interiors, Ned’s Club Gym and Spa, and restaurants set across the 3,000-square-metre former banking hall, with 92 verdite columns and Grade I-listed walnut counters. The City of London property has around 250 bedrooms, a private members’ club, spa, rooftop and a large collection of restaurants and bars, plus a women-led art collection curated through Soho House’s art programme.
It is a maximal city stay, better for energy than retreat. The central hall still has the scale of money moving through marble, but now the transactions are dinner, cocktails, live music and the occasional excellent swim.
Book The Ned when you want London to feel grand, social and slightly decadent, with enough architectural substance to justify staying in after dark.
