diff --git a/flavors/swagger-ui-react/README.md b/flavors/swagger-ui-react/README.md
index 316bdd0fb94..1cba34ae5eb 100644
--- a/flavors/swagger-ui-react/README.md
+++ b/flavors/swagger-ui-react/README.md
@@ -43,6 +43,12 @@ Remote URL to an OpenAPI document that Swagger UI will fetch, parse, and display
 
 ⚠️ Don't use this in conjunction with `spec` - unpredictable behavior may occur.
 
+#### `layout`: PropTypes.string
+
+The name of a component available via the plugin system to use as the top-level layout for Swagger UI. The default value is `BaseLayout`.
+
+⚠️ This prop is currently only applied once, on mount. Changes to this prop's value will not be propagated to the underlying Swagger UI instance. A future version of this module will remove this limitation, and the change will not be considered a breaking change.
+
 #### `onComplete`: PropTypes.func
 
 > `(system) => void`
diff --git a/flavors/swagger-ui-react/index.js b/flavors/swagger-ui-react/index.js
index 6c1169879c9..31f27b8e6b6 100644
--- a/flavors/swagger-ui-react/index.js
+++ b/flavors/swagger-ui-react/index.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ export default class SwaggerUI extends React.Component {
       plugins: this.props.plugins,
       spec: this.props.spec,
       url: this.props.url,
+      layout: this.props.layout,
       defaultModelsExpandDepth: this.props.defaultModelsExpandDepth,
       presets: [presets.apis,...this.props.presets],
       requestInterceptor: this.requestInterceptor,
@@ -85,23 +86,26 @@ SwaggerUI.propTypes = {
     PropTypes.object,
   ]),
   url: PropTypes.string,
+  layout: PropTypes.string,
   requestInterceptor: PropTypes.func,
   responseInterceptor: PropTypes.func,
   onComplete: PropTypes.func,
-  docExpansion: PropTypes.oneOf(['list', 'full', 'none']),
+  docExpansion: PropTypes.oneOf(["list", "full", "none"]),
   supportedSubmitMethods: PropTypes.arrayOf(
-    PropTypes.oneOf(['get', 'put', 'post', 'delete', 'options', 'head', 'patch', 'trace'])
+    PropTypes.oneOf(["get", "put", "post", "delete", "options", "head", "patch", "trace"])
     ),
   plugins: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.object),
   displayOperationId: PropTypes.bool,
   showMutatedRequest: PropTypes.bool,
   defaultModelExpandDepth: PropTypes.number,
+  defaultModelsExpandDepth: PropTypes.number,
   presets: PropTypes.arrayOf(PropTypes.func),
   deepLinking: PropTypes.bool,
 }
 
 SwaggerUI.defaultProps = {
-  supportedSubmitMethods: ['get', 'put', 'post', 'delete', 'options', 'head', 'patch', 'trace'],
+  layout: "BaseLayout",
+  supportedSubmitMethods: ["get", "put", "post", "delete", "options", "head", "patch", "trace"],
   docExpansion: "list",
   defaultModelsExpandDepth: 1,
   presets: [],