The Langham, London, is one of the largest and best known traditional-style grand hotels in London, England. It is situated in the district of Marylebone on Langham Place and faces up Portland Place towards Regent's Park.
 
The Langham was designed by John Giles and built by Lucas Brothers between 1863 and 1865 at a cost of £300,000, equivalent to £30,515,436 in 2021. It was then the largest and most modern hotel in the city, featuring a hundred water closets, thirty-six bathrooms and the first hydraulic lifts in England.
 
Interesting facts...
A lesser‑known secret about The Langham, London is that its Palm Court—famous today for its afternoon tea since 1865—was, in Victorian times, one of the first “safe” public spaces where discreet meetings could take place between people who needed to be seen socially but also have private conversations away from gossiping drawing rooms. Indeed a favourite of Oscar Wilde where he could meet in a place where “everyone and no‑one” saw certain meetings, yet nothing was ever recorded.