The Lavery

The contemporary addition at the rear of the terrace: a long top-lit room with angled white walls, opening onto two private courtyards. It has its own accessible door from the street, its own reception area and its own lavatories, so an event need never pass through the restaurant. Built as a gallery, it takes production and lighting readily.

Sir John Lavery's own workplace, where sitters including Churchill came for their portraits. A soaring ceiling, light wood floors, a marble chimneypiece and a sash window the house claims is the largest in Europe. It suits a reception, a talk or a performance.

The first floor: an ornate white room with a gilt oval mirror above the chimneypiece, tall arched mirrors and parquet under foot. It comprises a lounge and a bar, which can be taken separately or together, and is served by the kitchen alongside.

A ground-floor room beside the main entrance, panelled in white with a decorative chimneypiece, a coffered ceiling and tall double doors. Level access from the street makes it the easiest room to load into, and it is let as a blank canvas for dinners, exhibitions and shoots.

The ground-floor room, with a long stone counter down one side and bentwood chairs on bare boards. Taken privately it works for a breakfast, a reception, or the arrival part of a longer evening upstairs.

Lady Hazel Lavery's own gallery, on the ground floor of No. 5. Original parquet, black marble chimneypieces and large sash windows onto a contemporary courtyard. Good for a pre-dinner reception, a small exhibition or a private dinner.

The bar end of the restaurant floor, a curved counter with stools and a lit display behind it. It is let on its own or added to the lounge next door.

Below the restaurant, a single table for sixteen under a marble chimneypiece. The room doubles as an exhibition: it is handed to an artist or designer for a season, so the furniture and the works on the walls change through the year.