The Academy is a 5 star London hotel with 50 rooms / suites, located in the Garden Square district of Bloomsbury. The hotel, which originally opened in March 2000, was originally five private homes built in 1776. In 2018, the hotel underwent a renovation by YTL Hotels and Champalimaud Design. The hotel is part of the Small Luxury Hotels of the World collection.[1][2] It forms part of a Grade II listed building named "Numbers 15A and 17 to 49 and Attached Railings" which is a terrace of 18 houses and was listed on 28 March 1969.[3]