About 41 Portland Place

Unique Central London Venue

About 41 Portland Place

Our Grade II* listed Georgian Townhouse is perfect for conferences, press & product launches, dinners & receptions, parties, weddings and filming.

Centrally located in the heart of Marylebone, 41 Portland Place is a Grade II* listed Georgian Townhouse, just a 6-minute walk from Regent’s Park & Great Portland Street Tube Stations and 8 minutes from Oxford Circus. This historic venue combines traditional Georgian architecture with contemporary facilities, including state-of-the-art AV, to create a stunning setting for events.

Our flexible event spaces can accommodate between 6 and 150 guests, making it ideal for conferences, press and product launches, dinners, receptions, parties, weddings, and filming.

Since October 2010, after a £5M refurbishment, 41 Portland Place has served as the home of the Academy of Medical Sciences. Profits generated from venue hire support the Academy’s mission to improve health through research.

Period and modern rooms for any occasion

Georgian architecture

Rich in Georgian architecture there are so many beautiful historic features within the building that are symbolic of the period and which make 41 Portland Place a unique event venue.

  • The reason why there are more stairs on the servant staircase is because they were expected to walk quietly. Hence smaller steps to create less noise.
  • The floors are not numerically identified on the servants’ staircase as most of the servants were illiterate. Instead, the glass panels on each level increase in size on each floor so they were able to identify which level they were on.
  • The Exhibition Area marks the original back wall of 41 Portland Place.
  • The windows originally looked out onto the back courtyard between the main building and Weymouth Mews (now home to the Wolfson Conference Centre).
  • The curved doors of the entrance to the Laurie Landeau Room and the Jean Shanks Library/Fellows Room contain panels made from a single piece of wood so that the patterns in the wood are symmetrical on either side of the doors.