About Hux
It’s entering a world where it’s ok to linger a while on the staircase admiring its antique form and it’s fine to spend time absorbing eye-catchers on the wall.
A place created for your pace, your ease and comfort and allows go-slow or rapid just as you need. Made of curious stories and a lover of making more – its heartbeat tunes in to just what you need on the day and seduces a gentle rhythm through to dusk.
Location
Perfectly positioned in central London
The Hux Hotel is ideally located in the prestigious area of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is right next to Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens, which were once the private gardens of Kensington Palace. Many of London's best and most desirable cultural attractions, shopping areas, restaurants and bars are close by. Both the Royal Albert Hall and Natural History Museum are just a few minutes walk away.
Hux Address:
7-9 Kensington High St, London W8 5NP
Nearest tube station:
High Street Kensington (5-minute walk)
BY CAR:
Approximately 30 minutes from Heathrow Airport and 10 minutes from Paddington.
Hux History
A rich and interesting past
Kensington High Street was declared London’s second-best shopping street in 2005. Although it officially opened on October 1, 1868, its history goes back much further.
Back in the eighteenth century, rather than exclusive shops and high-end restaurants which line the street today, travellers coming to London from the west found many inns and drinking houses there; like The Adam and Eve (1722), The Griffin (1732), and The Goat, the oldest remaining pub in Kensington High Street, first constructed in 1695.
Nineteenth-century improvements transformed the roadway into a thriving commercial centre. Fashionable shops replacing market stalls and public houses attracted the attention of Victorians arriving from London at the new High Street Kensington Station.
Throughout most of the twentieth-century large department stores, like Barkers of Kensington, were dominant. Eventually, they were replaced by independent retailers whose shops are so successful today.
