Unique Venues in Central London

All our venues for hire in Central London

Woolly Mammoth has 19 venues for hire in Central London, in Soho, Fitzrovia, Mayfair, Marylebone, Covent Garden, Bloomsbury, Holborn, King's Cross, Clerkenwell, Farringdon and Westminster. Most are private penthouses and townhouses, booked for meetings, workshops, conferences and client events. Seating runs from 10 to 160 guests, and prices start at £120 an hour. The price is for the whole venue, with no booking fee. Send us your date and headcount: we reply with a shortlist, arrange the viewing and the catering, and stay with you until the day.

Central London is where your clients, your offices and the main train stations already are. A meeting here saves your guests a second journey, and ten of these venues are within about ten minutes' walk of an Elizabeth line station (Tottenham Court Road, Bond Street or Farringdon), the direct line from Heathrow, Paddington, Liverpool Street and Canary Wharf. What you won't find is a hotel function room: one venue was a courthouse, another stored theatre props, a third looks over St James's Park from a turret.

How to choose a venue in Central London

Where our Central London venues are

Six districts between Marble Arch and the edge of the City. Start with the one nearest your guests' office or train.

Meeting rooms in Central London

Thirteen of these 19 venues seat 20 people or fewer, the size of most meetings we book in the centre: a board meeting, a client pitch, a strategy half day. Instead of one room on a shared floor, your team gets the whole place, with a kitchen, a sofa for the breaks and often a terrace.

For a meeting built around a screen, The Voyage Rooms by Euston and The October Gallery in Holborn have audiovisual systems installed, and the Voyage Rooms has staff on site for the set-up. The Fitzrovia Penthouse adds AV and a restaurant on the ground floor of the building for lunch. Compare more rooms on our pages of unusual meeting rooms in London and boardrooms in London, or by district: Soho, Covent Garden, Mayfair and Clerkenwell.

Conference venues in Central London

Four venues take a conference, a seminar or a company meeting of 40 or more seated guests:

• Tottenham Court Road Townhouse, between Soho and Fitzrovia: five storeys and 5,000 sq ft for 160 seated, with an events team in the building. From £690 an hour.
• Old Session House, Clerkenwell Green: a former courthouse with two halls, one under 8-metre ceilings, side rooms for breakout groups and a garden on the roof. 120 seated or 350 standing, wheelchair accessible with a lift. From £300 an hour.
• The Symphony Home, behind Waterloo station: a former store for theatre props, now open living spaces around a private courtyard. 80 seated, 180 standing. From £575 an hour.
• Fitzrovia Penthouse, Mortimer Street: the Art Deco top floor of the building, with Crittall windows, a balcony facing the BT Tower and step-free access. 40 seated, 120 standing. From £710 an hour.

For bigger audiences, see our large conference venues in London.

Client events with a terrace or a view

• Whitehall Court Penthouse, Westminster: two reception rooms under 7-metre ceilings, a turret room and a roof terrace, with St James's Park on one side and the Thames and the London Eye on the other. 16 seated, from £160 an hour.
• High-rise Penthouse in Clerkenwell: a wraparound terrace facing St Paul's, the Shard and the Gherkin, and a lift. 16 seated, from £150 an hour.
• The Skyline Luxe Penthouse, on the Strand: a glass dome over the lounge, a private terrace and access to the roof. 18 seated or 30 standing, from £360 an hour.
• British Museum Penthouse, Bloomsbury: a rooftop terrace overlooking the museum, across three floors of a Georgian townhouse with no lift. 15 seated, from £120 an hour.

Getting to our Central London venues

Book the Tube or a train, not a car: every venue is in or beside the Congestion Charge zone and parking is rare, though The Symphony Home has an accessible parking space. For a team coming from abroad, The Voyage Rooms is a few minutes' walk from the Eurostar at St Pancras, and the Elizabeth line reaches Bond Street, Tottenham Court Road and Farringdon from Heathrow in 30 to 40 minutes. Each venue page gives the exact address, sent again with your booking.