Once Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman’s home and later a women’s club, 6–7 Grosvenor Place opens as a members’ club across seven floors, looking over the gardens of Buckingham Palace.
For 35 years of the last century, 6–7 Grosvenor Place was a private women’s club. It is about to become a club again. The Pembroke is due to open in autumn 2026 across seven floors of the Belgravia house, facing the gardens of Buckingham Palace, with two terraces, several restaurants and a café on Halkin Street that will be open to the public.
Cundy’s French Renaissance pair
The building began as two townhouses, designed by Thomas Cundy III and built between 1867 and 1869 in a French Renaissance manner. It is listed at Grade II. By 1919 the pair had been joined into a single residence, together with the mews behind on Pembroke Street, since renamed Headfort Place. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, the former prime minister, made his home at number 6.
The women’s club occupied the house from 1919 to 1954. After that it passed to the Gulf Oil Company as offices. Later twentieth-century alterations extended and partly rebuilt the house, and lost or compromised almost all its historic features.
What the builders found
Planning and listed building consent to return the house to club use was granted in 2019. Once work began, the project team found historic features it had not expected and began recovering the principal rooms. That discovery reshaped the plans. In October 2025 Westminster approved revised layouts that move the kitchens and plant into the parts of the building altered in the 1950s and 1970s, leaving the best of the older fabric for guests.
The same revision changed what the upper floors are for. The 2019 scheme had kept offices and executive space there; the team now says hybrid working has made them unnecessary, and two new kitchens have been added so that the house can concentrate on dining. Roof terraces on the third and fifth floors face the mews.
A club rethought after the pandemic
The owner is the Oman Investment Authority, Oman’s sovereign wealth fund. After the first design period it appointed Copper Beech, a London consultancy, to rework a club conceived before the pandemic for the market that followed. Copper Beech was founded in 2018 by Matt Hobbs, formerly chief executive of The Groucho Club, and its own record includes the launch of Soho House in New York’s Meatpacking District.
Copper Beech says it began with neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood analysis across West London, then led the project from concept and brand to opening-day operations. It chose Belgravia for the club, outside traditional clubland. The Pembroke describes itself as a place to eat, drink, dance and meet, with billiards among its diversions, and it reviews each membership application individually.
A café on Halkin Street
The club has published no room names or capacities, and as a members’ club, any occasion held there will be hosted by a member. Copper Beech’s brief included a strategy for private events and cultural programming.
A public café on Halkin Street appears in both the 2019 and the 2025 plans.