Morley's Hotel

Morley's Hotel was a building which occupied the entire eastern side of London's Trafalgar Square, until it was demolished in 1936 and replaced with South Africa House.

It was designed by the architect George Ledwell Taylor, and originally developed as apartments.

[6] Author Henry James recalled the fire in the coffee room and the vast four-poster beds.

[7] Sir Arthur Conan Doyle stayed there for some time in 1900, while he was writing The Hound of the Baskervilles, and the fictional Northumberland Hotel of that book may well have been based on Morley's.

He wrote to his mother in 1900 that he was "somewhat sick" of Morley's and intended to try the Golden Cross Hotel.