It was situated in Lime Grove, a residential street in Shepherd's Bush, and when it first opened was described by Gaumont as "the finest studio in Great Britain and the first building ever put up in this country solely for the production of films".

[2][3] Lime Grove would be used for many BBC Television programmes over the next forty-two years, including: Quatermass II; Andy Pandy; The Sky at Night; Dixon of Dock Green; Nineteen Eighty-Four; Steptoe and Son; Doctor Who; Nationwide; Panorama; and The Grove Family, which took its title family from the studios, where it was made.

Led Zeppelin performed White Summer and Black Mountain Side there, on The Julie Felix Show, on 23 April 1970.

By the end, the building was in such a poor state of repair that the remaining BBC staff nicknamed it "Slime Grove".

The streets in the estate were named Gaumont Terrace and Gainsborough Court, in memory of the past owners of Lime Grove Studios.

[citation needed] Lime Grove Studios was the setting for the fictional current affairs programme The Hour in the BBC drama of the same name.