Bankside House
This London School of Economics hall of residence is often used as a venue for local meetings and events.
Superbly situated directly opposite Tate Modern and a stone's throw from Shakespeare's Globe. Only available for visitor accommodation during University summer vacations (July, August & September).
Bankside House can accommodate over 800 people. All rooms have telephones and are serviced daily. Other facilities include a bar, games room and television lounge, along with a coin operated launderette and ironing room. The ground floor restaurant serves both full English and continental breakfast.
Book online for Bankside House with Laterooms
Web: www.lse.ac.uk/collections/vacations/residences/bankside-house.htm
Want a handy printed guide to what's on in the area each month?
Pick up a free copy of in SE1 at Bankside House.
News & features about Bankside House
- LSE gets go-ahead for rooftop extension at Bankside House (30 Dec 2011)
- Southwark Cathedral puts dean's £6 million Bankside house up for sale (8 Jul 2011)
- LSE plans expansion of Bankside House student residence (21 Mar 2011)
- Blackfriars Road drug and alcohol team to be reorganised (9 Dec 2009)
- Go-ahead for 671-bed LSE student residence in Great Suffolk Street (4 Nov 2009)
- Southwark tenants join forces for housing campaign (25 Nov 2005)
- Residents propose re-routing of Thameslink to save Borough Market (18 Oct 2005)
- Planning inspector to back Potters Fields towers (22 Sep 2005)
- Downings Roads houseboat petition has 1600 signatures (9 Jul 2004)
- Inquiry into Berkeley Homes' plan for Potters Fields opens (28 Apr 2004)
- Potters Fields: council calls for cultural use (9 Mar 2004)
- Barge row: riverside residents hit out at Simon Hughes (8 Mar 2004)
- Tower Bridge barges: inquiry adjourned (4 Mar 2004)
- Tooley Street residents to oppose Berkeley Homes development (27 Feb 2004)
- Tate garden dug up for tunnel (1 Aug 2003)
- Renzo Piano to appear at London Bridge Inquiry (12 Apr 2003)
- Countryside March heading for SE1 (19 Sep 2002)
Forum discussions about Bankside House
- Lost Kitten!
- Cardinal Cap Alley
- Where to become engaged in SE1?
- Bankside...
- Thameslink 2000 @ Borough Market & Blackfriars
- Thameslink 2000 Inquiry
- Thameslink 2000 and Borough Market
- Holiday Inn Express Southwark St
- Berkeley Homes development at Potters Fields
- Urgent help needed
- The Shard
- Potters Fields
Restaurants, pubs & bars close to Bankside House
- Tossed (58 yards)
- Del'Aziz (64 yards)
- Leon (72 yards)
- Tsuru (84 yards)
- Starbucks (98 yards)
- The Refinery (104 yards)
- Pret a Manger (106 yards)
- Caffe Fratelli (122 yards)
- Tortilla (124 yards)
- Paul (134 yards)
- Crussh (138 yards)
- Vapiano (144 yards)
- The Loft (150 yards)
- Rosie Tate (158 yards)
- The Table (168 yards)
- Itsu (198 yards)