Offices, schools and public buildings to film in the United Kingdom
31 of them, 25 with a photo and 11 with practical details the location publishes itself. 6 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs.
Shooting in the United Kingdom pays back through the Audio-Visual Expenditure Credit (AVEC) (34%): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Belfast City Hall
Office, school & public building
Baroque Revival city hall of 1906 in central Belfast, with a domed rotunda, marble entrance hall, council chamber and banqueting hall.
Capacity: 500 · Great Hall: theatre 500, round dinner 400 (40 tables), standing reception 500. Banqueting Hall: theatre 225, round dinner 150 (15 tables), standing...
Bletchley Park
Office, school & public building
Wartime codebreaking site at Milton Keynes with a Victorian mansion, wooden huts, brick blocks, a lake and period offices kept as they were in the 1940s.
Seen in: The Imitation Game
Bodleian Library
Office, school & public building
Historic university library in central Oxford with the vaulted Divinity School and Duke Humfrey's medieval reading room, hired for filming by arrangement.
Seen in: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Chiswick Park
Office, school & public building
A landscaped west London business park of glass office buildings around a lake, promoted by its operator as a filming location for adverts and corporate shoots.
Christ Church, Oxford
Office, school & public building
Oxford college and cathedral with Tom Quad, a hammerbeam dining hall, cloisters, the Bodley staircase and a meadow running to the river.
Seen in: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Golden Compass
Dovecot Studios
Office, school & public building
Tapestry studio and gallery in the former Infirmary Street Baths, keeping the top lit swimming hall, viewing balcony and tiled Edwardian entrance.
Freemasons' Hall
Office, school & public building
Art deco masonic headquarters in Covent Garden with the Grand Temple, bronze doors, long processional corridors and marble stairs, released to crews on non event days.
Seen in: Assassin's Creed, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, Hustle
Guildhall
Office, school & public building
Medieval great hall of the City of London with a stone porch, crypts, art gallery and the remains of a Roman amphitheatre below, hired for events and filming.
Hackney Town Hall
Office, school & public building
Art deco civic building of 1937 with marble entrance hall, council chamber, assembly hall and panelled committee rooms, hired out through the council's venue team.
Ikon Gallery
Office, school & public building
Contemporary art gallery in a restored Victorian board school building in Birmingham's Brindleyplace, with galleries, a tower and a public square outside.
Capacity: 500 · Victorian building with versatile spaces accommodating 10 to 500 guests (own site).
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum
Office, school & public building
Red sandstone Edwardian museum and art gallery in Glasgow's West End, with an organ-fitted central hall, galleries and a park setting beside the River Kelvin.
King's College, Cambridge
Office, school & public building
Cambridge college with a perpendicular Gothic chapel and fan vault, a front court, dining hall and lawns running down to the river and the Backs.
MediaCityUK
Office, school & public building
A media and business campus on Salford Quays with BBC and ITV studios, offices and waterside plazas, including the purpose built Coronation Street set, used for broadcast and corporate productions.
Seen in: Coronation Street
Mitchell Library
Office, school & public building
Edwardian domed public reference library in Glasgow, one of Europe's largest, with a grand entrance hall, reading rooms and function spaces.
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
Office, school & public building
Museum on Falmouth harbour with a timber clad main hall hung with small boats, a lookout tower and an underwater gallery with windows below the waterline.
St Mary's Guildhall
Office, school & public building
Fourteenth century guildhall next to Coventry's ruined cathedral, with a great hall under an angel roof, medieval tapestry, undercroft kitchen and stone court.
The Bluecoat
Office, school & public building
Britain's oldest surviving purpose-built arts centre, a Grade I listed early Georgian charity school building in central Liverpool with galleries, a courtyard and function rooms.
The Burrell Collection
Office, school & public building
Museum of 1983 set in Pollok Country Park, rebuilt in 2022, with glazed galleries facing woodland, sandstone walls and reconstructed medieval doorways inside.
The Guildhall
Office, school & public building
Neo Gothic civic hall of 1890 beside the city walls, with a clock tower, stained glass windows across the main hall, council chamber and stone stairways.
The Signet Library
Office, school & public building
Neoclassical law library beside St Giles with a colonnaded upper hall, painted cupola, galleries of leather bound books and a lower library used for events.
Thinktank, Birmingham Science Museum
Office, school & public building
A science museum at Millennium Point in Birmingham with galleries of steam engines, vehicles and interactive exhibits across four floors, available for venue hire.
Trades Hall of Glasgow
Office, school & public building
Robert Adam designed 18th century guild hall in central Glasgow, with a domed saloon and panelled function rooms still used by the city's trade incorporations.
Ulster Museum
Office, school & public building
National museum at the edge of the Botanic Gardens, joining an Edwardian classical block to a brutalist concrete extension of 1972 with cantilevered galleries and a top lit atrium.
University of Leeds
Office, school & public building
Redbrick campus in central Leeds with Gothic, Art Deco and modern buildings around the Parkinson Building, available for external filming through the university press office.
University of Salford
Office, school & public building
A university campus beside MediaCityUK on Salford Quays, with lecture theatres, media production studios and modern teaching buildings.
Exeter College, Oxford
Office, school & public building
City-centre Oxford college with a Gothic Revival chapel, front quad and gardens on Turl Street, used as a filming location for period and detective drama.
Seen in: Endeavour
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Office, school & public building
South London museum with a Victorian conservatory, bandstand, aquarium and 16.5-acre gardens overlooking the city, hired for filming and photography by arrangement.
Magdalen College, Oxford
Office, school & public building
Medieval Oxford college with a bell tower, cloisters, deer park and riverside walk, hired for documentary, feature film and photography outside term time.
Royal Holloway, University of London
Office, school & public building
Victorian university campus at Egham centred on the ornate French Renaissance-style Founder's Building, with quadrangles, a chapel and a picture gallery.
University College, Oxford
Office, school & public building
Oxford's oldest college, fronting the High Street with a 17th-century quadrangle and chapel, available for filming during university vacations with the Domestic Bursar's permission.
Wolfson College, Oxford
Office, school & public building
1970s Oxford college on the banks of the Cherwell with modernist buildings and riverside gardens, available for filming with the events office's permission.
Offices, schools and public buildings elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 42
- Spain 31
- France 23
- Poland 18
- Austria 15
- Greece 13
- Italy 13
- Netherlands 13
- Bulgaria 12
- Croatia 11
- Czech Republic 11
- Romania 11
Other kinds of location in the United Kingdom
- Theatres, arenas and venues 47
- Industrial and derelict locations 39
- Transport and infrastructure 42
- Film studios and backlots 37
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 10
- Houses and apartments 33
- Hotels and interiors 22
- Bars, restaurants and shops 10
- Castles and estates 17
- Churches and monasteries 13
- Villages and countryside 15
- Modern architecture 9
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