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tl;dr

Space
A 21 sqm (226 sq ft) fitted basement showroom space for rent in North Kensington, W10, Greater London, with two smaller adjoining offices of 14.27 sqm (154 sq ft) and 15.92 sqm (161 sq ft) available in the same booking. The character is utilitarian and controlled, with counters, rails and fitting rooms already installed rather than a street facing retail shell.
Best For
Wholesale appointments and buyer previews run back to back across three separate rooms, private showroom rental for collection preview, compact content studio and brand shoot days, stylist pull and sampling sessions, and invite only sample sale space for a mailing list crowd. Public facing pop-up store trade is the weakest fit given low passing footfall on this block.
Standout Features
Three separately bookable rooms let you run parallel buyer appointments with a shared stock room behind them, which is rare at this rate in London. Also installed: fitting rooms and garment racks, counters and furniture, sound and video equipment with controllable basement lighting, on site parking and elevator access for kit and rail loads, plus a kitchen for catering setup, air conditioning, heating and a monitored security system. The space is move-in ready and vetted by Fashion Week Venues for appointment based formats.
Location
Ladbroke Grove and Kensal Green stations are both within roughly a ten to fifteen minute walk, with Paddington around fifteen minutes by car for international arrivals and Mayfair or Soho hotels fifteen to twenty five minutes away. The immediate W10 street is low rise and industrial, dominated by self storage traffic and trade merchants before eleven and quiet by afternoon, so loading in is straightforward but guests need a pinned location and a named contact because the entrance does not announce itself.
Availability
Day rate is £480 with a one day minimum and terms up to 336 days, and you can book by the day or book by the week. Allow four to six weeks lead time in London and eight to ten weeks for February and September fashion week windows, when fitted showroom space in West London typically books first.
How to Book
Send your dates, room count and format and we confirm availability within 24 hours, with no charge until confirmed. Permit paperwork, door and appointment staffing, and fit-out coordination are handled by our team on the brand's behalf. Request availability now to hold your fashion week dates.
21 m²
226 sq ft
london
GB
£480 / day
per day
flexible
1 use cases
in short
A 21 sqm (226 sq ft) fitted basement showroom space for rent in North Kensington, W10, Greater London, with two smaller adjoining offices of 14.27 sqm (154 sq ft) and 15.92 sqm (161 sq ft) available in the same booking. The character is utilitarian and controlled, with counters, rails and fitting rooms already install…
city
London
area
21 sqm
day rate
£480 / day
postcode
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use cases
Office
included
Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

Three office spaces are available for rent by the hour, offering various sizes to accommodate different needs. - Office 1: 14.27 square meters (154 square feet) - Office 2: 21.28 square meters (226 square feet) - Office 3: 15.92 square meters (161 square feet) These offices are equipped with essential amenities, including internet, air conditioning, a security system, and a stock room. Additional features include counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, and a kitchen. For further information or to schedule a viewing, please contact us directly.

what's included

  • Internet
  • Air Conditioning
  • Security System
  • Stock Room
  • Counters
  • Fitting Rooms
  • Garment Rack
  • Lighting
  • Furniture
  • Sound & Video Equipment
  • Electricity
  • Heating
  • Parking
  • Elevator
  • Kitchen

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how to book this space

  1. 01

    Check the shell and the dates

    Review the gallery, 21 sqm floor plan and amenities for Flexible Hourly Office Rentals Available, then note the window you want in London. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.

  2. 02

    Send the brief

    Use the request panel on this page to send your dates, expected footfall and budget. The listed rate is a starting point at €559 per day.

  3. 03

    Get availability and a quote

    We confirm availability with the operator and come back within 24 hours with the all-in cost: rent, staffing, permits and fit-out for London.

  4. 04

    Lock the contract

    Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.

  5. 05

    Build and open

    Fit-out, install and staff the pop-up. Our production team handles delivery, install and the strike at the end of the run in London.

use cases

Office

location

plotting…
london·51.5244° · -0.2327°

what's around

11 places within 600 m, incl. Big Yellow Self Storage, Londis

brands nearby

Big Yellow Self StorageLondis
galleries
1
restaurants & bars
2
other retail
8
  • Big Yellow Self Storage30 m
  • Storage Geeks50 m
  • Graham Plumbers Merchant70 m
  • Edmundson Electrical90 m
  • Hyde Park Bathrooms420 m
  • Car Giant440 m

the neighbourhood

Independent labels, stylists, music video crews, product photographers and small-batch accessories brands make up the bulk of the working population within a ten minute walk of this address, and that mix has been stable here for decades. Canalot Production Studios on Kensal Road still holds post houses, music companies and design consultancies, while the canal side units around Portobello Dock draw furniture, lighting and interiors studios that need ceiling height rather than a shopfront. Ladbroke Hall on Barlby Road has pulled a more design led crowd north over the last two years, and Golborne Road remains the practical trade counter for stylists sourcing vintage, ceramics and North African textiles. Between Bramley Road and Latimer Road you also find sample archives, small PR back offices and self storage units doing quiet duty as stockrooms for brands with no warehouse of their own. In our experience placing brands across spaces in London, this pocket of W10 attracts teams who want a working showroom space and a content studio inside the same booking, not a retail address with a queue outside it.

Brands pick W10 over Mayfair, Soho and Marylebone because the budget buys usable square metres and installed infrastructure instead of postcode prestige, and because appointment led formats do not need footfall in the first place. A comparable fitted room off Mount Street or Brook Street costs several times this daily rate, and Shoreditch, while cheaper than Mayfair, now runs a congested activation calendar during any given fashion week, which means your press day competes for the same editors on the same afternoon. What you gain here is control: private arrival, parking that genuinely exists, a stock room, garment racks, counters and fitting rooms already in place, and neighbours who are trade merchants and storage depots rather than rival brands. What you give up is walk past visibility and the convenience of telling a buyer you are five minutes from their hotel. Most press and buying accommodation clusters in Mayfair, Fitzrovia and Soho, so budget fifteen to twenty five minutes by car. Ladbroke Grove and Kensal Green sit close by, and Paddington brings international arrivals in quickly, which is why our venue sourcing team shortlists this area for invite only showroom rental and tightly scheduled buyer appointment days.

Arriving on this block on a weekday morning feels industrial and purposeful rather than commercial. Before eleven the street belongs to delivery vans, self storage traffic and trade customers at the plumbing and electrical merchants a minute away, then it quietens noticeably through the afternoon, which is precisely the rhythm that suits back to back buyer appointments and unhurried press previews. The buildings are low rise and functional, loading in is straightforward, and the basement level of this space means appointments happen in a controlled, sound isolated room with lighting, heating, air conditioning and video equipment already installed. What we consistently hear from brand teams who activate here is that guests need a pinned location, clear wayfinding and a named contact at the door, because the entrance does not announce itself and no one finds it by accident. Be clear about the limitation: this is not a neighbourhood for high volume tourist retail, spontaneous walk-in traffic or any brand needing maximum street visibility. It performs for press days, guest list sample sales, fittings, shoots and wholesale appointments, and our production and build team can dress the rooms to suit each of those formats.

getting here & street life

nearest transit

  • Mitre Bridgebus · 4768155 m · 1 min
  • Hythe Roadbus · 47627349 m · 4 min
  • Mitre Way / Wormwood Scrubsbus · 74869380 m · 5 min
  • Cumberland Business Parkbus · 52645618 m · 8 min
  • North Pole Roadbus · 72984623 m · 8 min
  • North Pole Road / Scrubs Lanebus · 76570681 m · 9 min

street activity

quiet street.

4 places within 200 m · 8 stores · 2 cafés and restaurants

within 200 m
4
within 400 m
4
within 600 m
11

the neighbourhood

North Pole depot is a railway and maintenance depot built for Great Western Railway's AT300 units from the Hitachi A-train family. Located in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, the depot was partially redeveloped by Agility Trains from 2013 as a maintenance site when they were awarded the Intercity Express Programme.

  • Mitre Bridge Exchange railway station · 171 m
  • West London Junction railway station · 190 m
  • Little Wormwood Scrubs · 284 m
  • College Park, London · 286 m
  • St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green · 401 m

frequently asked

Yes — Flexible Hourly Office Rentals Available is a vetted pop-up ready space in London, 21 sqm. Request availability and dates through the inquiry card on the listing.

who it suits

Brand Scale

This suits a small independent label with a 2 to 12 person team, roughly 2 to 6 years of trading, and a wholesale or DTC base that needs a working room rather than a stage. At 21 sqm in the largest unit, with three offices bookable by the hour and a 20 person occupancy ceiling, the operational logic is appointment volume, not crowd volume. One buyer or stylist at a time, a rail, a fitting room and a counter is exactly what fits. Where we see mismatches is when a brand with a 40 piece runway collection and a 200 name guest list books a room like this and then discovers the basement floor level and the west London industrial setting cannot absorb an evening event. Larger houses running press days at scale should compare bigger footprints across spaces in London before enquiring here.

Aesthetic Fit

A neutral, utilitarian identity works best here: contemporary womenswear, menswear basics, denim, knitwear, technical outerwear, accessories and jewellery brands whose product carries the room rather than the interior. The fitted counters, garment racks, fitting rooms and existing lighting and furniture give you a functional fashion showroom straight out of the box, which suits brands that photograph product flat or on rail and want a clean working backdrop. What does not work is a brand whose equity lives in atmosphere. Heritage luxury, high concept fragrance, and beauty houses that need volume, daylight and architectural drama will find a basement office shell fights them, and the cost of building over it exceeds the value of the room. Brands needing sculptural set pieces should look at raw shells instead.

Best Use Cases

First choice is wholesale appointments and buyer meetings during and around fashion week, because three separate hourly bookable rooms let you run parallel appointments with a stock room behind them. Second is a private showroom rental for collection preview, where the racks, counters and fitting rooms remove almost all fit out. Third is a compact content studio day, using the sound and video equipment, controllable basement lighting and on site parking for kit loads. Fourth is stylist pull and sampling, with the stock room and elevator making handling straightforward. Fifth is a small invite only sample sale for a mailing list crowd, which our activation service can staff and run. Public facing pop-up shop trade sits last given the low passing footfall.

Budget Signal

This sits at the mid tier for London showroom space, priced for what is already installed rather than for the address. Against a prime Mayfair or Soho showroom suite you are paying materially less and losing proximity, so buyers travel to you and the invitation has to earn that trip. Against hotel event rooms you gain a stock room, fitting rooms, rails and all day access instead of hourly meeting room formality. Against co-working venues you gain genuine retail infrastructure. Against a shared pop-up format you gain privacy and control. In our experience brands at this stage recover the difference by cutting build spend to near zero, which is worth modelling in the budget calculator before you commit to dates.

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