RSA HOUSE
Corporate, wedding and private venue hire in central London

A Georgian townhouse providing an inspiring venue for any occasion. RSA House seamlessly combines original period architecture with modern design and technology to create a truly memorable backdrop for any event.

The Great Room is our flagship space, playing host to large conferences, dinners, award ceremonies, weddings and drinks receptions.

Steeped in history, this iconic room houses an impressive series of 18th-century paintings that provide a unique and memorable backdrop for all events. It is fully air-conditioned, with natural daylight streaming in from the glass-domed ceiling, and features full built-in AV.

The Great Room is on the first floor and is often hired in conjunction with the Benjamin Franklin Room directly beneath it. This serves as the ideal meeting catering or pre- and post-reception drinks space to the Great Room.

Additionally, the Drawing Room, located next door to the Great Room, is the perfect green room or VIP room, allowing direct access to the stage for presenters and speakers. It is also often hired as an organiser’s office, break out room, or for storage. A further four interconnecting meeting rooms can be found on the first floor, lending themselves perfectly for breakout spaces for larger conferences and meetings.

The Great Room
Audio-visual inclusions
The Great Room has a high specification for in-house AV and lighting. There are 8 free standing speakers around the room which link the sound and lighting together. The stage is a permanent fixture and the optional screen measures 4 metres x 2.5 metres. Other features available in this room:

Full video recording
Live streaming
Audio recording
A room rich with history
The Great Room was designed by the Adam brothers in 1774 and was originally used as an assembly room for the Society Members’ discussions and debates and as a venue for the presentation of awards and prizes.

The breath-taking series of six paintings, ‘The Progress of Human Knowledge and Culture’, is the final product of artist James Barry, taking a total of 23 years to complete.

When hiring the Great Room, you are stepping foot inside the room that saw past RSA Fellow Alexander Graham Bell give one of the first practical demonstrations of his new invention, the telephone, in 1877.

The Benjamin Franklin Room is a spacious and elegant ground floor event room, providing a modern and contemporary twist in a venue full of history.

This space is ideal for drinks receptions, meeting catering, dinners, product launches, and wedding ceremonies. It is also often used as crowd holding for location filming.

The large window floods the room with natural daylight and provides views of the Strand. The dramatic Troika chandelier is the room’s focal point and reflects stunning geometric patterns onto the ceiling.

The magnificent Benjamin Franklin room works hand in hand with the Great Room above it, providing an ideal catering area or breakout room for conferences and reception space for dinners. The room can also be hired individually for stand-alone events such as receptions, dinners, product launches, large meetings, and filming. Conveniently located on the ground floor, this room is near to the reception and cloakroom facilities.

Beneath the grand and traditional event spaces of RSA House lies something rather extraordinary. The subterranean Vaults boast four interconnecting event spaces, featuring exposed 18th-century brickwork throughout.

This iconic London venue suits just about any event, playing host to product launches, fashion shows, parties, press days, exhibitions, TV and film shoots, and weddings. This space has welcomed many well-known brands, including Yves Saint Laurent, Molton Brown and Penguin Books.