[2] The hotel has fifty-six rooms and twelve suites, many of which have their own terraces, plus a penthouse with a party deck for sixty people.

[3] At that time the original St James's Club was elsewhere, and the buildings at 7-8 Park Place were erected as blocks of flats in 1891-92.

[5] The sporting Sir John Dugdale Astley, 3rd Baronet, died in his chambers at 7, Park Place, 10 October 1894.

[7] By 1960, the 7-8 Park Place flats were being called Old St James's House, a name apparently without historical support.

The team of the St James’s Hotel and Club received the Olympic torch on the day before the opening of the Games.