Apartment Block’ is an impeccably hand-crafted, two-storey apartment, designed by Coffey Architects as a solid piece of joinery ‘inserted’ into a Grade II listed building.

Coffey Architects, 2019

Explore parts of this Grade II listed former Victorian primary school in Clerkenwell, once the HQ of Zaha Hadid Architects and now home to the Zaha Hadid Foundation. There will be free curator talks and a drop-in creative workshop for all ages.

Edward Robert Robson, 1874

The London Archives' older building was built in the late 1930s for the Temple Press and has many original features. Purpose built extension in early 1990s for archival storage. Public rooms remodelled by Bisset Adams in 2000s.

F. W. Troup and H. R. Steele, 1939

Grade II listed, built as a Welsh Charity School in 1738. A library with a focus on Marxism and Socialism since 1933. Lenin worked here 1902-03 and his office is preserved. Fresco by Jack Hastings in 1st floor. Late 15C tunnels.

Sir James Steere, 1738

A unique modern courtyard house making brilliant use of an off-street site on Clerkenwell Green. A retractable glass roof gives wonderful natural light all year round and opens the house to the sky in dry weather.

Paxton Locher Architects, 1995

Set in a Grade II listed Georgian townhouse, Tonkin Liu's studio has been extended. Designed and built by the practice, an innovative timber roof and reflecting pool gathers the bouncing rain, to make it a good place to be on a bad day.

Tonkin Liu, 2017

St John's Gate and the Priory Church are the remaining buildings from the medieval priory of the Knights Hospitaller and are both Grade I listed. St John’s Gate dates from 1504 and features stunning Victorian and Edwardian interiors. The Priory Church was reconstructed by Seely & Paget after the Second World War, but its 11th-century crypt survives.

Richard Norman Shaw, 1874

This walking tour explores the original creativity that formed pre-electricity London. It reveals the invisible hands and minds of individuals who crafted ways of living and the spirit of place—how they mastered their arts and prospered. It questions what our contemporary world may learn from their practices and expressions, and whether a handmade city is a more beautiful, more human city

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Working, sleeping, playing – the City of London is home to all sorts of activities after dark. This walking tour will explore buildings and spaces, well known and lesser-known, in darkness, and will tell the history of night-time in London. We will visit places where London works, sleeps and plays at night, and over the course of two hours will even see how night time activity shifts.

A walk along and around a stretch of London's most famous hidden river. The River Fleet is underground these days, but it's left its mark on the landscape. Discover the layers of history in this less explored corner of central London.

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The early 1800's saw the green fields of northern Clerkenwell spring up into grand squares and terraced houses. This walking tour will look at how the speculative housing developed, what remains today, and the unique stories and characters of the area.