Baywater Office Space

Bayswater office space offers a unique business location in London, close to exceptional transport links and the green space of Hyde Park.

Occupying the W2 postcode district of West London, Bayswater is positioned between Kensington to the south, Paddington to the north-east, and Notting Hill to the west.

The district’s name derives from the 1380 placename ‘Bayards Watering Place,’ which was thought to be named after a watering place for horses, belonging to the Bayard family.

Bayswater is famous for being the home of London’s first department store, Whiteleys, which opened in 1911 with its entrance on Queensway. Today, this high street and Westbourne Grove offer a wide range of first-class retail and dining amenities.

The building housing Whiteleys has since been converted into a Norman Foster-designed mixed-use scheme comprising prime residential apartments, retail units and the UK’s first Six Senses hotel and wellness spa at The Whiteley.

Bayswater became a district of affluent residential streets offering some the most impressive architecture in London, with grand Italianate white stucco terraces, beautiful garden squares and attractive cobbled mews.

Perhaps the most famous of Bayswater’s streets is Leinster Gardens. In the 1860s, when the Metropolitan Railway was extending its underground line, it used a ‘cut and cover’ technique because it couldn’t create underground tunnels at the time.

Due to the limitations of this method, it would attempt to follow the lines of pre-existing roads. However, this was not always possible. Leinster Gardens was an example of where the line had to pass through.

The works would have meant cutting through the terrace of mansions, so to maintain the street’s appearance, the protective residents’ association made the railway company create replicas of the grand houses. Thus, numbers 23 and 24 Leinster Gardens are, in fact, facades.

The highly sought-after district has been home to many notable residents, including ex-prime ministers Tony Blair and Winston Churchill, journalists such as the editor of GQ magazine Dylan Jones, and musicians such as Sting, who lived in a basement flat in the aforementioned Leinster Gardens in the 1970s.

As one might expect, companies seeking office space to rent in Bayswater and the surrounding vicinity are offered some of the most exceptional office spaces in London. They have the luxury of choosing from numerous prestigious period buildings that have been impeccably renovated to provide enhanced contemporary workspaces.

Along with leased office space, there is a growing number of flexible office space options in Bayswater, including premium serviced private offices, managed office suites, and co-working spaces.

In contrast to their leased counterparts, these are held on short-term licences yet offer the option to extend at the end of the term. The flexible occupational contracts also allow a business to expand within a building as needs dictate, with many buildings offering suites with space for in excess of 100 desks.

The added advantage of flexible workspaces is that they are priced all-inclusively, meaning that the monthly fee includes rent, utilities, security, services charge, cleaning, enterprise-grade IT services, furnishings, and so forth. The rental fee also covers items such as ad hoc boardroom use and services provided by the reception, secretarial, and concierge teams.

The available managed office options blend leased offices and serviced office space, providing the security of a lease with the efficiency of serviced space. These offer a high level of autonomy, and fit-outs are tailored to a client’s unique needs. For example, a client may request a designated floor with a private reception, kitchen, bathrooms, meeting facilities, or many other iterations, with bespoke service packages.

The high-end office spaces in Bayswater are also managed sustainably and offer modern end-of-trip facilities such as bicycle storage, showers, and changing rooms.

However, occupying clients have easy access to excellent public transportation links, with Bayswater, Lancaster Gate and Queensway London Underground stations, and Paddington train station, which is served by various lines, including the Elizabeth Line.