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viced offices Covent Garden are among the most expensive in London, because the piazza, the theatres and the agencies around Seven Dials pull in businesses that want to be seen there. Our Space offers a different way in: fully serviced offices at 1 Quality Court, a Grade II listed building in a quiet courtyard off Chancery Lane, ten minutes’ walk east of the piazza and seven from Holborn station, at £350 per desk per month. You get a WC2 address and the Covent Garden crowd on your doorstep, without paying piazza rents for the privilege.
Your Covent Garden office from £350 per desk
Offices at 1 Quality Court are priced by size and by the number of desks, and the figure works out at £350 per desk per month: a five-desk office of 197 sq ft is £1,750 per month plus VAT, an eight-desk room is £2,800, and whole floors run up to £19,250 for fifty-five people. Every room is furnished, the reception is staffed, and you take the space on a flexible term rather than a lease. The live availability list is on our Holborn office space page; click any room for photos and to book a viewing.
Office space Covent Garden: why firms look a few streets east
Covent Garden’s own office stock is small and mostly in converted warehouses and upper floors around Long Acre, Floral Street and Neal Street, much of it let by the big flexible office brands at their highest London rates. The area’s businesses, theatre producers and ticketing companies, fashion and beauty brands, design and advertising agencies, hospitality groups and the technology firms clustered around Seven Dials, do not all need to sit on the piazza. A short walk east, Holborn offers the same postcode district, the same tube lines and materially lower monthly costs, which is why so many Covent Garden firms end up with offices between Kingsway and Chancery Lane.
1 Quality Court is one of those buildings. It was built as part of the old Patent Office and is now a listed building set back from Chancery Lane in its own gated courtyard, with modern furnished offices across five floors, a staffed reception beneath a living green wall, meeting rooms to book by the hour, showers, bike storage, lift and step-free access, fibre broadband with a backup line, and secure entry around the clock.
Getting between 1 Quality Court and Covent Garden
The walk from the courtyard to the piazza is about ten minutes: up Chancery Lane, along High Holborn or through Lincoln’s Inn Fields, and down Great Queen Street past the Freemasons’ Hall to Long Acre. Holborn station, with the Central and Piccadilly lines, is seven minutes from the office and one stop from Covent Garden station on the Piccadilly line. Chancery Lane station on the Central line is two minutes’ walk, Farringdon with the Elizabeth line and Thameslink about ten, and Temple, on the Embankment, about ten. Buses along High Holborn, Kingsway and the Strand cover the rest.
Who takes serviced offices near Covent Garden at 1 Quality Court
Teams of five to fifty-five who work with Covent Garden’s businesses or want to be within a short walk of them: agencies with retail and hospitality clients on the piazza, production companies and casting agencies working with the theatres, brands whose flagship stores are on Long Acre or in Seven Dials, and firms in law, finance and consulting whose clients sit across both Covent Garden and the City. Rooms are private, so calls stay private and client papers stay out of sight, and the courtyard setting suits businesses that want to be discreet rather than on display.
Meeting rooms, clinic rooms and a virtual office
Meeting rooms at 1 Quality Court can be booked by the hour, so a Covent Garden client can be seen at the office without you taking a larger room than you need. The building also has CQC-registered treatment and therapy rooms, let separately from £940 per month, and if you only need a business address near Covent Garden the Holborn virtual office gives you 1 Quality Court as a registered address with mail handling from £50 per month.
Serviced offices Covent Garden: how the rooms are priced
Every room is priced at £350 per desk per month, so the figure on the card is the figure you pay: five desks is £1,750 per month plus VAT, eight desks £2,800, thirteen or fourteen desks £4,550 to £4,900, and a whole floor from £8,400 for twenty-four desks. There is no separate service charge, no business rates bill and no broadband contract to arrange, because those are in the monthly figure. Compare that total with what the flexible office brands around the piazza charge per month for the same number of desks, and the ten-minute walk starts to look like a good trade.
Moving in
Viewings are usually possible the same day you ask. If the room suits, you sign one agreement for the office and move in as soon as it is ready, with the furniture, broadband and reception already working. There is no fit-out to arrange and nothing to buy, and when you outgrow the room you take a larger one in the building, or combine two, rather than starting the search again.
Serviced offices Covent Garden: frequently asked questions
Is 1 Quality Court in Covent Garden?
No. It is in Holborn, about ten minutes’ walk east of Covent Garden piazza, in a courtyard off Chancery Lane. We say so plainly because the walk is the trade-off for the price: a WC2 address and the Covent Garden crowd nearby, at Holborn rents.
What does office space near Covent Garden cost at 1 Quality Court?
£350 per desk per month. A five-desk office is £1,750 per month plus VAT and a whole floor for fifty-five people is £19,250, with rent, rates, broadband, reception and cleaning in the figure.
How do I get from the office to Covent Garden?
On foot in about ten minutes along High Holborn and Great Queen Street, or one stop on the Piccadilly line from Holborn station to Covent Garden station.
What size of office can I take?
From a five-desk room to a whole floor for fifty-five. The offices listed at the moment run from 197 to 2,136 sq ft, and suites can be combined as a team grows.
Do you have offices closer to the piazza?
Not at the moment. Our five buildings are in Holborn, Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge and Belgravia, and 1 Quality Court is the nearest to Covent Garden.
Book a viewing
Call 020 7290 9552, WhatsApp +44 7435 126601, or use the contact page. Offices at 1 Quality Court can usually be viewed the same day, and our other central London locations are on the serviced offices London page.