[5] One of the considerations that made the transaction appealing to the city was that they would be able to widen Piccadilly when the Walsingham and Bath Hotels were demolished.

[6] An 1869-1874 map of the area showed the Bath Hotel on the corner of Arlington Street and next to it a string of small businesses—a coach builder, coal merchant, stationer and Cockburn's spirits.

[10] The eight-storey, red-brick building, designed by Alfred Burr,[7] featured flats which accommodated six bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms, each containing 12,323sq ft of living space.

[16] Lord Walsingham hired artist Cesare Formilli to complete the decoration of the new dining room, based upon designs that had been presented the previous year at the Paris Salon.

Formilli selected the interior furnishings specifically for the room and surrounded it with columns featuring bas-reliefs of dancing girls.