An impressive venue with an imposing Georgian façade, featuring libraries, conference and banqueting rooms.
Designed by Samuel Wyatt in 1794, this location includes five banqueting and conference rooms – The Library, The Court Room, The Pepys Room, Luncheon Room and Reading Room. The venue - and particularly its beautiful Reception Hall leading through to a sweeping, twin-curved staircase - houses remarkable maritime artefacts, including the brass bell from the decommissioned Royal Yacht Britannia, that bear testament to the prominent role it played in the nation’s maritime history. The history of the House is omnipresent and throughout the building, valuable paintings and antiques bear out the nation’s remarkable nautical heritage. This chronicle began in 1514 when a young Henry VIII granted the charitable guild of mariners a Royal Charter to regulate the water traffic on the River Thames, their powers later extended by Elizabeth 1 to include the sea-markers around the English coastline.
Tower Hill underground station is a two minute walk and Aldgate and Fenchurch Street stations a close by.
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