The group behind The Wolseley, set in a former Piccadilly showroom and bank by William Curtis Green, is opening a 50-room hotel in a second Curtis Green bank on the corner of Albemarle Street.
William Curtis Green left two banking halls on Piccadilly in the 1920s, and one hospitality group is now behind both. The first became The Wolseley. The second, the former NatWest bank at the corner of Piccadilly and Albemarle Street, is set to open in the fourth quarter of 2026 as The WestDill Mayfair, a hotel of 50 rooms and suites across six floors, with a restaurant and a bar.
A bank in Portland stone
Nos 63 and 65 Piccadilly were built in 1922 and 1923 as a corner bank and office block, and the building was listed Grade II in 1971. The listing describes an individual and carefully proportioned classical design in Portland stone, five bays wide to Piccadilly and arranged in three stages.
On the ground floor, the three central bays carry high semicircular arched windows that light the banking hall, with a balcony and a mezzanine behind them. The same three bays are marked again at each stage, first by arched recesses and then, at the top, by an Ionic colonnade set deep behind the facade to form a galleria under a high pitched roof. The Albemarle Street return repeats the composition on a shorter front.
The Wolseley’s architect, twice
In 1921 Wolseley Motors commissioned Curtis Green to design a car showroom at 160 Piccadilly, with marble pillars, archways and Venetian and Florentine details. When the firm failed, Barclays took over the building, and in 1927 Green returned to build its banking counter. The domed ceiling and the geometric marble floor are still his, and The Wolseley has traded there since 2003.
Minor Hotels now owns The Wolseley Hospitality Group, whose restaurants include The Wolseley, The Delaunay, Colbert and Zedel. The group has not yet said which room its new restaurant will occupy. The listing singles out the banking hall, whose arched windows face Piccadilly.
Colbert Collection’s first London address
The WestDill is the first UK hotel in Colbert Collection, a new soft brand from Minor Hotels for independent hotels. Minor says the brand is built around cooking, the visual arts and social connection, and names the Parisian boulevard café as its inspiration.
The building belongs to Royal Group of Companies, a Singapore developer, and the London hotel is its first venture in Europe. Its co-chairman, Bobby Hiranandani, says the group aims to reinstate the building’s grandeur while treating the conversion as a matter of conservation and craftsmanship. Minor describes the property as five-star.
Fifty rooms on the corner
At 50 rooms, The WestDill will be a small hotel, and nothing is published yet for private dining or events. The hotel lists no event rooms or capacities, and its own website is still to come. For comparison, The Wolseley’s private dining room seats 15 at a single oval table, reached by its own staircase above the restaurant.
The hotel is two minutes’ walk from Green Park station and a short walk along Piccadilly from The Wolseley.