London’s creative hubs range from artist studios in an 18th-century building on the Strand to coworking floors in Shoreditch warehouses. The list below covers places that offer studio or desk space to artists, makers and small creative businesses, with addresses checked in October 2026.
Somerset House Studios, Strand
Somerset House Studios, at Somerset House on the Strand, WC2R 1LA, houses artists working across music, visual art, technology and performance. It recruits new artists all year through an expression of interest, reviewed in three windows a year. It also runs residencies, including the Assembly Residency for music and sound artists, which comes with shared studio space, mentoring and a £3,000 project budget.
Makerversity, Somerset House
Makerversity runs workshop and studio space for makers, designers and small manufacturing start-ups at Somerset House. Members share tools and equipment.
Cockpit, Bloomsbury and Deptford
Cockpit is a charity that rents studios to craftspeople and helps them run their businesses. It has two sites: Cockpit Yard, Northington Street, Bloomsbury, WC1N 2NP, and 18-22 Creekside, Deptford, SE8 3DZ. Its winter open studios, when the public can visit and buy, run from 26 to 29 November and 4 to 6 December 2026.
The Trampery, Old Street and Fish Island
The Trampery runs workspaces for creative and social businesses. Its Old Street building is at 239 Old Street, EC1V 9EY. Fish Island Village, at Icemaid Court, 13 Rookwood Way, E3 2XT, has studios beside the canal in Hackney Wick.
Second Home, Spitalfields
Second Home Spitalfields, at 68-80 Hanbury Street, E1, is a coworking space known for its plant-filled interior. It is open on weekdays.
Protein Studios, Shoreditch
Protein Studios at 31 New Inn Yard, EC2A 3EY, is an event and studio space hired out for exhibitions, launches, talks and shoots.
Village Underground, Shoreditch
Village Underground at 54 Holywell Lane, EC2A 3PQ, is best known for the old Tube carriages on its roof, used as studios. The Victorian warehouse below is a concert and arts venue with an autumn and winter 2026 programme.
House of Vans has closed
House of Vans in the Waterloo tunnels, which appeared on earlier versions of this list, closed on 10 December 2022.