How big is the office and how many people does it fit?

The office is 7 sqm, or roughly 80 sqft, which comfortably suits a one to two person brand team working daily with occasional third visitors. It sits at the smaller end of the building, where individual offices run from 43 sqft up to over 220 sqft, so the rental you take can be matched to headcount rather than the other way round. Because shared facilities including the kitchen, meeting room, cove studio and parking sit outside your four walls, the 80 sqft is usable as desk and stock space rather than being eaten by circulation. Tell us your team size and what you plan to store, and we will confirm whether office 16 or a larger unit in the same facility is the better fit.

What is the minimum rental period?

The minimum term here is 90 days. That makes this a quarterly commitment rather than a short-term rental for a single week of activity, and it is the main qualifying question your brand should answer before enquiring. The facility does offer flexible entry and exit terms beyond that first 90 days, which is why founder-led labels use it as a rolling operations base rather than a one-off booking. If your requirement is a few days for a shoot or a workshop, the infinity cove room and meeting room inside the same building are hired separately and are the better route in.

What does this space cost to rent?

The published day rate is £6.67, which works out to roughly £200 per month and around £600 across the 90 day minimum. Brands taking facility space at this level typically find that a serviced office of the same size in a UK city centre costs several times more once service charges, alarm monitoring and equipment access are added on top. The infinity cove studio and the meeting room are charged separately at their own daily rates, so your total depends on how often you use them. Send us your intended stay length and studio usage and we will come back with a single consolidated figure covering the office, the studio days and any staffing you want alongside it.

Can I rent a larger office in the same building if my team grows?

Yes. The facility holds 16 offices ranging from 43 sqft to over 220 sqft, so you can rent a bigger unit or add a second room without leaving the building or renegotiating from scratch. In our experience handling multi office facilities like this one, that internal mobility matters more than it sounds, because brands that start with sample storage almost always need packing bench space by their second season. Moving within the same address also means your alarm access, parking and stock room routine stay unchanged. We will ask the operator which units are free at the point you enquire and hold a shortlist of two sizes for you.

Is there a photography studio on site?

Yes, there is an infinity cove room in the building that you can hire separately for photo shoots and video production. Paired with the on-site lighting and the sound and video equipment, plus parking for kit and rails, that makes this facility a working content studio as well as an office, which is unusual at this price point in County Durham. Brands using a cove for e-commerce and lookbook imagery normally shoot in half day blocks and store the product in their own office between sessions, which removes transport from the schedule entirely. If you want the cove dressed or a set built for a collection preview, our production and build

Can I use a meeting room for wholesale appointments?

Yes, meeting room hire is offered at a daily rate and you can book by the day around your buyer diary. That is the right room for wholesale appointments and a small buyer preview, because your 80 sqft office is too tight to seat a guest alongside rails and boxes. Practically, brands run the appointment in the meeting room, keep the collection on garment racks in the office two minutes away, and use the fitting rooms in the facility for try-ons. We can reserve consecutive meeting room days for you if your appointment block falls in a wholesale window.

What stock and garment facilities are included?

The facility includes a stock room, garment racks, counters and fitting rooms, alongside furniture, lighting, heating, air conditioning, electricity, Wi-Fi and a kitchen. That combination makes the space move-in ready for a fashion brand, which is not the case with most small offices of this size where you would be sourcing rails and rated power yourself. The counters and fitting rooms are the two amenities that matter most for sample handling, quality checks and internal try-ons ahead of a shoot or a sample sale. Confirm your rail metreage requirement when you enquire and we will check the stock room allocation attached to office 16 specifically.

Is this suitable for a showroom or press day?

It suits a private, appointment-only fashion showroom for a short buyer list, but it is not a press day venue. At 80 sqft on a basement floor, the office itself works as the collection room while the separately hireable meeting room hosts the appointment, which is the format we would recommend for hire here. A press day needs daylight, circulation and a location editors will travel to, and Station Town sits south of Wingate and west of Hartlepool rather than in a media hub. If a brand presentation for press is the goal, tell us and we will point you at city listings that carry that audience.

How do I get stock and equipment into a basement space?

There is an elevator serving the building and on-site parking, so rails, boxes and camera kit come in from the car park and go down by lift rather than by stair. What we check on your behalf before you commit at this address is lift dimensions, the route from the parking bays to the lift lobby and whether the operator restricts delivery hours, because those three details decide whether a full rail load is a ten minute job or an afternoon. The A19 and the B1280 give straightforward road access for couriers and vans, which is one of the practical reasons brands rent operational space in this part of County Durham. Send us your largest single item and delivery pattern and we will confirm access in writing before you sign.

Is the space secure enough to store samples and full collections?

Yes. The building runs closed-circuit television and modern security alarms monitored around the clock, with a dedicated stock room and lockable individual offices. Brands storing sample collections in facilities like this one typically find the monitored alarm is what satisfies their insurer, so ask your broker to review the CCTV and alarm specification during the rental agreement stage rather than after move-in. Because the unit is on a basement floor with no public access, foot traffic past your door is limited to other tenants in the 16 office facility. We will request the operator's security schedule for your records as part of the paperwork.

Where exactly is this and how do people reach it?

The facility is in Station Town, a village in the civil parish of Hutton Henry and Station Town in County Durham, south of Wingate and west of Hartlepool. Road access is the primary route via the A19 and the B1280, with on-site parking, and the nearest bus stop at Front Street is around a one minute walk, with Station Lane four minutes away and several more stops inside a ten minute walk. Local amenities are modest, with two shops and a cafe within 600 m, so plan on driving for anything beyond a coffee run. If you want to test this against a city base for your team before you enquire, we will run the comparison for you.

Do I need a permit, and what contract will I sign?

No street trading permit is needed here because nothing you do is public-facing, and the paperwork is normally a licence to occupy or a straightforward commercial agreement for the 90 day term. In our experience handling bookings at addresses of this type in England, the two things worth confirming early are the planning use class attached to the building and the operator's rules on internal fit-out, signage and drilling, since even a basement office will have restrictions on wall fixings and rail installation. Any temporary rental of the cove studio or meeting room usually sits under the same tenancy documentation rather than a separate contract. Our permit guide

What does Fashion Week Venues handle on my behalf for this booking?

We handle the operator negotiation, the 90 day terms, the office allocation, cove studio and meeting room scheduling, contract review and all access logistics, with concierge included throughout. What we manage at this address specifically is matching your team size and stock volume to the right unit among the 16 offices, confirming lift and parking access for rail deliveries, and coordinating the security and alarm documentation your insurer will ask for. Beyond the space itself we can arrange furniture, retail staffing for a wholesale appointment block, point of sale for a sample sale, and shoot production in the infinity cove. You brief us once and we run the operator conversations so your team is not chasing details across three separate suppliers.

How do I enquire, and what happens next?

Send an enquiry through the listing with your intended start date, team size, stock volume and whether you need the cove studio or meeting room, and we reply within 24h. We then check current availability across the facility, confirm the exact office allocated to you, and come back with a consolidated cost covering the 90 day term plus any studio days and services you want. There is no charge until confirmed, so you can request availability and see full figures before committing anything. Read how our process works

What is the day rate?

£7 / day. Weekly and press-preview rates are quoted on request.

Is staging, branding and fit-out permitted?

Yes. Fashion Week Venues runs the full production build — signage, fixtures, lighting, sound, catering and staffing — subject to venue rules. Include your fit-out brief in the inquiry.

Included on-site: Internet, Air Conditioning, Security System, Stock Room, Counters, Fitting Rooms, Garment Rack, Lighting.

How far in advance should we book?

Fashion week windows book 6–10 weeks out. Off-season activations can be secured in 2–3 weeks.

shell — station town

Modern Offices and Facilities for Rent.

7 m²

80 sq ft

station town

£7 / day

per day

photo / video

3 use cases

city

Station Town

area

7 sqm

day rate

£7 / day

postcode

—

use cases

photo shoot · video production · workshop

included

Internet · Air Conditioning · Security System

about this space

This commercial space features 16 offices, ranging from 43 square feet to over 220 square feet, suitable for various business needs. The facility offers flexible terms with straightforward entry and exit options, ideal for startups. Security is a priority, with closed-circuit television and modern security alarms monitored around the clock. An infinity cove room is available for rent, catering to photographers and videographers, and meeting room hire is offered at a daily rate. Additional amenities include internet access, air conditioning, a security system, a stock room, counters, fitting rooms, garment racks, lighting, furniture, sound and video equipment, electricity, heating, parking, an elevator, a kitchen, and Wi-Fi.

the fwv take

Treat this as a content studio and operational back-of-house base rather than a fashion week venue or walk-in temporary retail unit, because the value sits in the on-site infinity cove room, the house lighting rig and the sound and video equipment, while the 7 sqm basement office works as a locked sample store, packing desk and admin room alongside it.

What makes this address work for brand shoot days is the adjacency of the cove to everything else you need, with a seamless curved shell that strips horizon lines out of e-commerce and lookbook frames, on-site parking for kit and rails, and an elevator route from the car park down to your stock room, so a full shoot runs without a single garment transfer off site.

In our experience the brands that get the most from a facility like this are founder-led streetwear, denim, workwear, activewear and accessories labels at roughly one to five years of trading who shoot high volume and fulfil their own orders, and we would be straight with you that heritage luxury, couture and fine jewellery houses needing daylight, ceiling height and an address with meaning should look at spaces in London instead.

Before enquiring, know that the 90 day minimum rules out one-week campaign hires, that the cove and the meeting room are billed separately by the day and need booking against your office start date, and that County Durham studio demand tightens through the autumn wholesale and pre-spring shoot season when the larger offices in the building go first, so map your dates against our activation timeline and commit at least eight weeks ahead.

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
Wifi
CCTV

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how to book this space

01
Check the shell and the dates
Review the gallery, 7 sqm floor plan and amenities for Modern Offices and Facilities for Rent, then note the window you want in Station Town. Fashion week dates book 6–10 weeks out.
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 €8 per day.
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 Station Town.
04
Lock the contract
Sign the short-term licence, pay the deposit and we register any permit or signage paperwork the address needs.
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 Station Town.

activation ideas

E-commerce Shoot

This works well for high volume e-commerce imagery because the facility includes an infinity cove room hireable by the day, with house lighting already rigged and no horizon line to retouch out. Brands shooting product in spaces like this typically run half day blocks of 40 to 80 SKUs, keeping the collection on garment racks in the 7 sqm office and walking each rail across rather than trucking stock in. Parking and elevator access mean kit loads in from the car park directly.

Video Production

Credible for short form campaign and product video, mainly because the sound and video equipment is on site and the cove gives a seamless background for motion without a build. Crew size realistically caps around six to eight people in the cove itself, with the 80 sqft office doubling as a talent holding and wardrobe room since it has fitting rooms and counters within the facility. Being on a basement floor means no daylight variance across a long shoot day, which helps continuity.

Brand Shoot and Content Day

A workable content studio base for a founder-led label shooting social, lookbook and paid assets in one visit, since the cove, lighting, kitchen and secure storage sit inside one address. In practice the stock room and garment racks handle steaming, sequencing and reset between looks without requiring additional hire, and our furniture rental team can add props, plinths and seating for the cove if the shot list needs styling beyond flat product. Plan eight to ten people maximum across the day.

Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Preview

Suitable for a small wholesale appointment block, provided you book the separately hireable meeting room by the day rather than trying to host inside the 7 sqm office. The format we recommend here is collection on rails in your own unit, appointment and order writing in the meeting room, try-ons in the facility fitting rooms, which comfortably handles two to four buyers per slot. Add retail staffing if you need a second pair of hands running rails between appointments.

Private Appointment Showroom

This functions as an appointment-only fashion showroom for a short list of contacts rather than an open showroom rental, because there is no street frontage and footfall in Station Town is quiet. What makes it work for a seasonal collection preview is security depth: monitored CCTV, around the clock alarms and a lockable unit mean SS and AW samples live here across the whole 90 day term instead of shuttling in for each meeting. Expect one to three guests per appointment.

Sample Sale Operations Base

Strong as the back-of-house engine for a sample sale hosted elsewhere or sold online, since the stock room, counters, garment racks and parking cover grading, pricing and dispatch in one place. Brands running drops from facility space like this typically set up a two person packing line at the counters and use the elevator route from the car park for courier collections. We can layer in point of sale and payments if the sale itself runs at a separate customer-facing venue.

Small Team Workshop

Adequate for a focused internal workshop or team offsite of roughly six to ten people, using the day rate meeting room rather than the office, which seats two working comfortably. Kitchen, Wi-Fi, heating and air conditioning are already in place, and on-site parking with A19 and B1280 road access makes it reachable for a regional team driving in. Be honest internally about the setting: this is a working facility in County Durham, not a destination venue for client-facing sessions.

use cases

photo shootvideo productionworkshopcorporate eventteam offsite

location

plotting…

station town·54.7216° · -1.3726°

what's around

3 places within 600 m

cafés: 1
other retail: 2

Shah's390 m
It's All About the Cake450 m
Robinsons450 m

getting here & street life

nearest transit

Front Streetbus56 m · 1 min
Station Lanebus300 m · 4 min
Newholme Estatebus401 m · 5 min
Front Street-Hadrian Courtbus446 m · 6 min
Heaton Terracebus585 m · 7 min
Victoria Innbus722 m · 9 min

street activity

quiet street.

2 stores · 1 café or restaurant

within 200 m: 0
within 400 m: 1
within 600 m: 3

the neighbourhood

Station Town is a village in the civil parish of Hutton Henry and Station Town, in County Durham, England. It is situated to the south of Wingate, west of Hartlepool. Station Town is easily accessible, by road via the A19 and the B1280.

frequently asked

Not realistically, no. This is an 80 sqft basement office inside a 16 office facility in Station Town, County Durham, and it has no shopfront, no street frontage and no public entrance of its own. Footfall in the immediate area is quiet, with only two shops and one cafe recorded within 600 m, so a walk-in pop-up shop would not generate the traffic your brand needs. Where this address does work for temporary retail is behind the scenes, as a packing, storage and fulfilment base for an online drop or a sample sale hosted elsewhere. If a customer-facing unit is the objective, browse all spaces

who it suits

Brand Scale

This suits a one to four person brand team running back-of-house operations, not a customer-facing activation. At 7 sqm on a basement floor with a 90 day minimum lease, this is a working office and storage unit inside a larger multi-office facility, and it fits a founder-led label with roughly one to five years of trading who needs a monitored, heated, connected base for sample storage, wholesale admin, packing and order fulfilment. The building supports growth because you can take a second or larger office as headcount rises. Where we see mismatches is when a brand with a press or retail objective enquires here. If you need a public-facing showroom rental, a walk-in temporary retail space, or a footprint for buyer hosting at volume, this is too small and wrongly positioned. Station Town is a County Durham village with three commercial premises inside 600 m, so a brand looking for a spaces in London style fashion week venue with buyer traffic should look elsewhere on the platform.

Aesthetic Fit

Aesthetically this is a neutral, functional shell, so it works best for brands whose visual identity lives in the product and the content, not the room. Practical categories fit well: streetwear, workwear, uniform and technical apparel, activewear, denim, accessories, and any label with a utilitarian or industrial brand language that reads comfortably against plain painted walls, standard office lighting and a basement floor level. The on-site infinity cove room is the real aesthetic asset, which means brands building clean, seamless e-commerce and lookbook imagery get more from this facility than brands needing atmosphere. What does not work here is a heritage luxury, couture, fine jewellery or high-craft interiors story. Those brands need daylight, ceiling height, period detail and a street address that carries meaning, and no amount of branded store design will make a small basement office read as a luxury brand presentation space.

Best Use Cases

First choice is a content studio and product photography base, because the facility includes an infinity cove room for hire, lighting, and sound and video equipment on site, with parking for kit and stock. Second choice is a long-term brand operations and sample storage office, supported by the stock room, garment racks, counters, fitting rooms, CCTV and around the clock alarm monitoring. Third choice is a private wholesale appointment and collection preview room for a small buyer list, using the separately hireable meeting room by the day rather than the 7 sqm office itself. Fourth choice is a small team workshop or team offsite, with kitchen, heating, air conditioning, Wi-Fi and elevator access. Fifth choice is packing and fulfilment for a sample sale or online drop, with dispatch handled from the stock room. A public pop-up shop or press day venue is not a realistic use here given the quiet footfall and basement location.

Budget Signal

This sits at the entry end of the UK market, well below prime commercial and city centre pricing, and that is the core reason to consider it. Brands at this stage typically find that a comparable serviced office in a major city costs several times more per month once service charges, security and equipment access are added, while hotel event spaces and co-working day desks offer no stock room, no garment rails, no fitting room and no cove studio. Shared pop-up formats in high street locations command a premium for footfall you do not need if your objective is production and fulfilment. The trade-off is straightforward: you accept a village location, basement floor and a 90 day commitment in exchange for facility depth at a low monthly cost. Run the numbers against alternatives using our budget calculator before you commit, because the value case here rests entirely on whether your activation is operational rather than customer-facing.

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about this space

the fwv take

what's included

make the space yours.

how to book this space

Check the shell and the dates

Send the brief

Get availability and a quote

Lock the contract

Build and open

activation ideas

E-commerce Shoot

Video Production

Brand Shoot and Content Day

Buyer Appointments and Wholesale Preview

Private Appointment Showroom

Sample Sale Operations Base

Small Team Workshop

use cases

location

what's around

getting here & street life

frequently asked

who it suits

Brand Scale

Aesthetic Fit

Best Use Cases

Budget Signal

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