A quiet salon for Marylebone.

§ Building & address

The book-dealer's shelves are gone; the back-room is for cards now.

Saspherton occupies the ground and first floors of a restored Victorian townhouse on Chiltern Street. The building has been a residence, an antiquarian-book dealer, and now this — a quiet members' salon for an evening's card play, an hour at the bar, or a slow dinner. The register is scholarly rather than louche. Brass library lamps, deep-forest panelling, parchment linen. A glass of an English sparkling. A book on the bench. A table waiting.

The townhouse dates from 1887 and is Grade II-listed (List Entry No. 1226394 in the National Heritage List for England). It was built as a private residence for a textile-merchant family and was, until 2025, a small antiquarian-book dealer. The dealer relocated to King's Cross; we kept the back-room shelving and re-purposed the front bay as the bar.

The basement and second floor are not part of the salon: the basement is plant; the second floor is private residence. The salon's main entrance is the ground-floor double doors directly off Chiltern Street, immediately to the left of the bay window. Step-free entry to the ground floor is available via the rear courtyard on Devonshire Mews West — please advise on booking.

§ The Klub

Members are a quieter audience than guests.

Saspherton Klub is a private members' programme. The annual subscription is £1,800. Membership covers six invitations per year to The Hedera Hour (the salon's invitation-only evening), twelve guest passes, a priority reservation window of six weeks, a 10% credit on Saspherton-direct purchases, and the salon's quarterly paper newsletter posted to the member's address on file.

Members are a quieter audience than guests; we serve the audience first.

FELIX ALLARDYCE · KLUB COORDINATOR

The Klub admits new members up to a soft cap of approximately 240 active memberships. Membership applications go through Felix Allardyce, our Klub Coordinator, formerly of the Wallace Collection's events office.

Read the Klub rules

§ The neighbourhood

Wallace at six, Saspherton at eight, Wigmore at ten.

Marylebone is the cultural-village quarter of central London, bounded by Marylebone Road to the north, Edgware Road to the west, Oxford Street to the south, and Great Portland Street to the east. The Marylebone Conservation Area protects the Georgian and early-Victorian street-grid; Chiltern Street, Marylebone Lane and Marylebone High Street form the central retail spine.

The salon is six minutes' walk from the Wallace Collection, four minutes from the Wigmore Hall, five minutes from Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street, three minutes from Trunk Clothiers opposite. Twelve minutes from Lord's Cricket Ground via the Nursery End. The Royal Academy of Music is six minutes north, the Howard de Walden Estate covers the freehold of every street between us and Marylebone Lane.

Marylebone is the part of London where the Englishman feels he is in London by quiet implication.

ATTRIBUTED · HENRY JAMES

The nearest tube is Baker Street (Bakerloo, Circle, Hammersmith & City, Jubilee, Metropolitan), three minutes' walk; the second-nearest is Bond Street (Central, Elizabeth, Jubilee), eight minutes. Buses 13, 274 and 453 stop at Marylebone High Street / Bulstrode Street. The nearest car parks are Marylebone NCP on Welbeck Street (eight minutes) and Selfridges Q-Park via James Street (eight minutes).