Built in 1914 as the Bow Street Magistrates' Court and Police Station — the very building where Oscar Wilde was arraigned, where the Kray twins appeared, where suffragettes were processed after arrest — the Grade II-listed Portland stone palazzo on the edge of Covent Garden carries more charged history per square foot than almost any hospitality conversion in London. NoMad London, which took over the building in 2021 under the Sydell Group, had architect Roman and Williams handle the transformation alongside a careful structural restoration, threading 91 rooms through a neo-Baroque civic pile whose original bones were never meant to accommodate pleasure. The interiors sustain that productive tension between institutional gravity and deliberate ease. Bedrooms are furnished with dark leather headboards, tufted velvet benches in cognac and navy, damask bolster cushions, and parquet or wide-plank oak floors, with freestanding clawfoot baths screened by ornate lacquered folding panels in some rooms — intimate gestures within high-ceilinged spaces. The glazed courtyard, now the principal restaurant, draws the building's colonnaded tiers into a lantern-hung dining room planted with trailing greenery and upholstered in chartreuse and rose, its atmosphere hovering between Victorian conservatory and European brasserie. The diner-register space lined with green leather booths, brass rail dividers, and densely hung photography adds a distinctly New York counterpoint — the NoMad brand's downtown confidence quietly inserted into one of London's most loaded civic addresses.

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NoMad London takes residence inside the historic, grade II-listed building famously known as The Bow Street Magistrates’ Court and Police Station. The transformation of the storied 19th century building draws inspiration from its history and location in Covent Garden, as well as exploring the artistic and cultural connection between London and New York.