Eighty square metres, in zone one
You unlock the door with a code, walk into eighty square metres of oak floor and white wall, and realise you have a kitchen, a washing machine and two bedrooms in zone one for what a hotel room costs. Guests keep using the word unusual, and in this postcode they are right. Two doubles and a sofa bed sleep six; the larger flat takes eight.
The building at 118 Farringdon Road holds three flats, converted and let by Veevo Home. They are properly finished rather than luxurious: oak floors, white walls, velvet headboards in blue and green, marble-effect tiled bathrooms with baths as well as showers, and white kitchens with wood worktops fitted well enough to cook a real dinner and do a week of laundry. One of the two-bedroom flats opens onto a small decked courtyard terrace with a table and a parasol.
What there is not is a hotel. No desk, no porter, no breakfast. You let yourself in on a smart lock, you cook your own food, and the building manager answers by message. For a family or a group of friends who want to be central and self-contained, that is the whole point.
Three things the listing gets wrong
First, it is not adults only. The reservation listing carries an adults-only tag, but the house rules welcome children of any age when accompanied by an adult, cots are offered free for under-threes, and four of the ten most recent reviews are from families. If you were put off by that label, ignore it.
Second, there is no minimarket and no hairdresser on site. Both appear in the listing's amenity block and neither exists: this is a converted residential building on a main road, not a serviced block with retail underneath. There is a Sainsbury's Local about five minutes' walk away, which is what guests actually use.
Third, the access data contradicts itself. The truth is straightforward: there is no lift in the building. One of the two-bedroom flats is on the ground floor and genuinely step-free, and it has to be requested for your dates in advance. Everything else is up stairs, and the three-bedroom is on an upper floor.
Heat, noise and the deposit
Two complaints recur and both should shape how you book. There is no air conditioning in any of the flats, which is normal for London and miserable in a heatwave. A guest in August 2026 described thirty-five degrees outside and no way to cool the rooms, and was careful to say it was not the flat's fault. Farringdon Road is also a busy junction, and the windows are thin, so opening one for air brings the traffic in with it.
Then there is the money. A refundable damage deposit of £500 is taken by card about a fortnight before arrival and returned within a week of check-out after inspection. That is clearly stated. Less clearly, a guest in June 2026 reported a £40 non-refundable damage-protection charge requested shortly before arrival that did not appear anywhere in the listing. We cannot confirm it is standing policy, but you should know it happened.
Neither of these is a reason to walk away. They are reasons to bring a fan in July, ask for the quieter side of the building, and have a card with headroom on it.
Why book The Farringdon?
Three flats on Farringdon Road with more floor space than London usually gives you. Here is what works, and the three things the listing gets wrong.
Room to spread out
Eighty square metres for the two-bedroom flats, a hundred and thirty for the three-bedroom with its second bathroom. Guests keep using the word unusual, and in zone one they are right. Two doubles and a sofa bed sleep six; three doubles and a sofa bed sleep eight.
Exmouth Market is two minutes away
You step out onto Farringdon Road with the 19 and 38 buses at the door and the pedestrianised run of Exmouth Market a couple of hundred yards away, where Caravan and Moro sit among the weekday street-food stalls. Farringdon station is a ten-minute walk, and it is the only station in London where the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and the Underground all meet.
You let yourself in
Check-in is on a smart lock from three in the afternoon, with no reception to reach before it closes and no keys to collect. Guests consistently describe the coming and going as effortless. You do have to complete a key-code form before you travel, so leave time for it.
No air conditioning, no lift
There is no cooling in any of the flats and the windows face a busy junction, so a hot week means choosing between heat and noise. There is no lift either: one two-bedroom flat is on the ground floor and step-free, the rest are up stairs. And a £500 refundable deposit is taken before you arrive.
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Interesting Points About The Farringdon
- The reservation listing still runs under the property's original name, King's Cross Cozy Apartments, which is why aggregator sites label it as the former King's Cross Cozy Apartments
- The operator is Veevo Home Ltd, incorporated in May 2018, and check-in runs through the RoomPilot platform rather than a front desk
- There are three flats in the building: a pair of two-bedroom apartments of about 80 m² and one three-bedroom of about 130 m² with two bathrooms
- One of the two-bedroom flats is on the ground floor and genuinely step-free. There is no lift, and the others are reached by stairs
- A £500 refundable damage deposit is charged to a card about fourteen days before arrival and returned within seven days of check-out after inspection
- The address sits inside both the Congestion Charge zone and the ULEZ. The Congestion Charge rose to £18 a day on 2 January 2026 and the full electric-vehicle exemption ended on 25 December 2025
- The listing carries an adults-only tag, which is wrong. The house rules welcome children of any age with an adult, and cots are offered for under-threes
- The listing also shows an on-site minimarket and a hairdresser. Neither exists. 118 Farringdon Road is a converted residential building
- This is not 62-66 Farringdon by condokeeper, which is a separate building under different management
Rooms & Accommodation at The Farringdon
Two-Bedroom Apartment
About 80 m², sleeps up to six
Eighty square metres with two double bedrooms, a sofa bed in the living room and a small decked terrace with a table and parasol. Best for a family of four to six who want a kitchen and somewhere to sit outside in the middle of London. One of the two flats of this type is on the ground floor and step-free, so ask for it specifically if stairs are a problem. Guests do note the sofa bed is the least comfortable of the sleeping options.
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Three-Bedroom Apartment
About 130 m², two bathrooms, sleeps up to eight
A hundred and thirty square metres over three double bedrooms with two bathrooms, sleeping up to eight. Best for two families travelling together or a group who would rather share a kitchen than a hotel corridor, and the second bathroom is what makes eight people workable. Two things to know: it is on an upper floor with no lift, and it has no terrace. A guest who brought eight thought six was the more comfortable number.
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Best Suited For
- Families and groups of six or eight who want to self-cater in central London
- Travellers arriving late, since check-in is on a smart lock rather than a reception desk
- Anyone using Farringdon station, with direct trains to Heathrow and Gatwick and three Tube lines
- Guests who want a kitchen, a washing machine and room to spread out rather than hotel service
Worth Considering Alternatives If
- Anyone visiting in a heatwave, since none of the flats has air conditioning
- Light sleepers, given a busy junction outside and thin windows
- Guests who cannot manage stairs, unless the one ground-floor flat is free for your dates
- Drivers, because there is no parking and the address is inside both the Congestion Charge zone and the ULEZ
Amenities and policies
In Your Apartment
- Private kitchen
- Private bathroom with a bath and shower, and a second bathroom in the three-bedroom flat
- Hardwood or parquet floors throughout
- Streaming flat-screen TV
- Heating
- Iron and ironing board
- Private entrance
- Free Wi-Fi
- Non-smoking
- Not available: Air conditioning
- Not available: Tumble dryer
The Building
- Three flats in a converted building at 118 Farringdon Road
- Terrace
- Not available: Lift
- Not available: Reception
- Not available: Luggage storage
- Not available: On-site minimarket or hairdresser
Food and Drink
- Not available: Breakfast or restaurant
- Exmouth Market, with Caravan and Moro, is a 2-minute walk
- A supermarket is about a 5-minute walk
Parking and Transport
- Not available: On-site parking
- Congestion Charge and ULEZ
- Nearest car park
- Buses 19 and 38 stop on Farringdon Road outside the door
- Farringdon station is about a 10-minute walk, with the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and three Underground lines
Policies
- Damage deposit
- Children
- Not available: Extra beds
- Not available: Pets
- Non-smoking throughout
- Minimum check-in age is 18
- Not available: Parties, hen and stag groups
Location and getting around
118 Farringdon Road sits on the line between Clerkenwell and Islington, in EC1, a district of design studios, medieval remnants and the best-connected station in London. It is central without being touristy: the City is a walk east, Bloomsbury a walk west, and the West End about fifteen minutes on a bus from the stop outside.
Exmouth Market is two minutes away, a semi-pedestrianised street of independent restaurants with weekday street-food stalls, the original Caravan and Moro. Sadler's Wells is six minutes, Angel and the Northern line twelve, Smithfield and Charterhouse Square twelve to fourteen, and the British Museum fifteen to eighteen. King's Cross St Pancras and the Eurostar are sixteen minutes on foot or one Thameslink stop.
Farringdon station, ten minutes away, is the reason a lot of people book this address. It is the only station in London where the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and the Underground all meet, which means Heathrow in about thirty-eight minutes and Gatwick in about forty-five, both direct and without changing.
- Exmouth Market: About 300 yards, a 2-minute walk
- Sadler's Wells Theatre: About half a mile, a 6-minute walk
- Farringdon station: About half a mile, a 10-minute walk
- Angel station: About 0.6 miles, a 12-minute walk
- Smithfield and Charterhouse Square: About 0.7 miles, a 12 to 14-minute walk
- British Museum: About 0.8 miles, a 15 to 18-minute walk
- King's Cross St Pancras: About 1.4 km, a 16-minute walk
- St Paul's Cathedral: About a mile, a 25-minute walk or one stop on the Elizabeth line
- Heathrow Airport: About 38 minutes, direct on the Elizabeth line from Farringdon
- Gatwick Airport: About 45 minutes, direct on Thameslink from Farringdon
Getting to Key Locations
Within a 15-minute walk: all 3 places below.
Photo: Bryn Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0
Exmouth Market
2 min walk
A 2-minute walk from the door, Exmouth Market is a short semi-pedestrianised street lined with independent restaurants and awnings, where Moro has cooked Spanish and North African food since 1997 and the original Caravan roasts its own coffee. Street-food stalls fill the middle of it at weekday lunchtimes.
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Farringdon station
10 min walk
A 10-minute walk south, Farringdon is the only station in London where the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and the Underground all meet, and the original 1863 terminus of the world's first underground railway. From here Heathrow is about thirty-eight minutes direct and Gatwick about forty-five.
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Charterhouse Square
13 min walk
A 13-minute walk south, Charterhouse Square is a quiet cobbled garden square beside Smithfield, ringed by the medieval Charterhouse and the Art Deco slab of Florin Court, which television viewers know as Poirot's Whitehaven Mansions. The new London Museum opens in Smithfield's General Market on 28 November 2026.
View on MapGetting to The Farringdon
- From Farringdon station: Ten minutes on foot. Come out onto Cowcross Street, turn onto Farringdon Road and walk north to number 118. Farringdon is where the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and the Circle, Metropolitan and Hammersmith and City lines all meet, so most journeys across London end here without a change.
- From Heathrow or Gatwick: Both are direct. The Elizabeth line runs from Heathrow to Farringdon in about thirty-eight minutes, and Thameslink from Gatwick in about forty-five. Then walk the ten minutes north up Farringdon Road. No taxi is needed from either, and given the Congestion Charge, no taxi is advisable.
- From King's Cross or St Pancras: One Thameslink stop south to Farringdon and a ten-minute walk, or walk the whole way in about sixteen minutes up through Clerkenwell. If you are coming off the Eurostar with luggage, take the train.
- Arriving by car, which we would not: There is no parking at the building, and the address is inside both the Congestion Charge zone and the ULEZ. The nearest public car park is NCP Saffron Hill on St Cross Street, about six minutes' walk, open around the clock with a 1.90-metre height limit and app-only payment. Coming by train is cheaper, faster and less trouble.
Clerkenwell and Farringdon
Clerkenwell is one of the more interesting corners of central London to sleep in, largely because it is not built for visitors. It is a working district of architecture and design studios, medieval survivals and Victorian market halls, with the buried River Fleet running under Farringdon Road and the world's first underground station a ten-minute walk away.
Eat on Exmouth Market, two minutes from the door, where Moro and the original Caravan sit among a row of independents and the street-food stalls come out at lunchtime on weekdays. Walk south to Smithfield for the Victorian market halls, where the new London Museum opens in the General Market building on 28 November 2026 and the wholesale meat trade moves out by 2028. Charterhouse Square and Florin Court are the same walk.
Come between spring and autumn. The local moment is Clerkenwell Design Week, which runs from 19 to 21 May 2026 for its fifteenth edition with more than six hundred showroom events across EC1, and fills every bed in the neighbourhood. Book early if those are your dates, and expect the streets to be busy in a good way.
Watch: two days in London
A quick orientation to the city you step out into, most of it reachable on the bus that stops outside the door.
Who is The Farringdon for?
Book it if you are four to eight people who want a kitchen, a washing machine and eighty or a hundred and thirty square metres in zone one, and you would rather let yourself in than queue at a desk. The position is genuinely excellent and the space is the kind London does not usually hand out. Do not book it in a heatwave, do not book it if you cannot manage stairs without checking the ground-floor flat is free, and have a card ready for the deposit.
What guests say about The Farringdon
Scores and review counts are aggregated from verified guest bookings on major travel platforms.
Very good
Two things come up in almost every review: the position and the space. Guests rate the location above everything else on the listing, and they keep remarking on how much room they get for central London. The smart-lock check-in draws consistent praise, as does the building manager. The complaints cluster just as tightly: no air conditioning in summer, road noise through thin windows from a busy junction, an uncomfortable sofa bed, worn fittings, and admin friction around the deposit and the key-code form.
Called the stay superb and loved the neighbourhood, and was careful to say his one complaint was not the flat's fault: a thirty-five-degree London heatwave is hard going when apartments here so rarely have air conditioning.
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Rated the location, the cleanliness and the facilities highly and found the smart keys made coming and going effortless. Her frustration was being asked, less than an hour before check-in, to pay a £40 damage-protection charge that had not appeared in the listing.
Praised a comfortable flat close to both transport and food: roughly ten minutes on foot to Farringdon, five to a supermarket, and a kitchen that had everything he needed. His only complaint was the summer heat indoors with no way to cool the rooms.
Loved having a bus stop right outside, a ten-minute walk to the station, clean and well-presented rooms and a very helpful host. It worked for her party of eight, though she thought six was the more comfortable number. She marked it down for an uncomfortable sofa bed and noise coming through thin windows.
Another superb. She singled out the position, the fast buses into town on the 19 and 38, and the generous amount of space, which she said is rare in London. Only the sofa bed could have been more comfortable.
Found it roomy for a London flat and handy for Exmouth Market, though she put the nearest Tube at twelve to fifteen minutes' walk. The apartment was one level up with no lift, and road noise from the junction was noticeable with only an open window for air.
Good to Know Before You Book
There is no air conditioning
None of the flats has cooling, which is normal in London and genuinely difficult in a heatwave. The windows open, but they face a busy junction on Farringdon Road and they are thin, so you are trading heat for traffic noise. A guest in August 2026 described thirty-five degrees and no way to cool the rooms. Bring a fan if you are coming in July or August.
No lift, and only one step-free flat
There is no lift in the building. One of the pair of two-bedroom flats is on the ground floor and genuinely step-free, and you have to request it for your dates in advance. The other two-bedroom and the three-bedroom are reached by stairs. If access matters, ask before you book rather than after.
A £500 deposit is taken before you arrive
It is refundable, charged to a credit card about fourteen days before arrival and returned within seven days of check-out subject to inspection. Make sure the card you give has the headroom. One guest in June 2026 was also asked for a £40 non-refundable damage-protection charge shortly before check-in that was not in the listing; we cannot confirm that is standing policy, but it is worth asking about.
Children are welcome, whatever the listing says
The reservation listing carries an adults-only tag and it is wrong. The house rules welcome children of any age accompanied by an adult, and cots are free on request for under-threes. There are no extra beds, so the sofa bed is the flex.
There is no breakfast, and no need for one
Nothing is served at the property and there is no restaurant or bar in the building, because every flat has a full kitchen with an oven, a hob and a dishwasher. A supermarket is about five minutes' walk away, and Exmouth Market with Caravan's own coffee roastery is two. Buy in on the first evening and you will not think about it again.
Check-in is a smart lock, and there is a form
Arrival runs from 15:00, with no reception to catch and no keys to collect, so a late train is not a problem. You do have to complete a key-code form through a third-party platform before you travel, and guests have found it fiddly. Do it a few days ahead rather than at the airport.
Cancellation terms depend on your rate
Prepayment and cancellation conditions vary by rate and dates, and the exact terms show on the option you select before you confirm. Check them alongside the deposit before committing.
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Frequently asked questions
It is at 118 Farringdon Road, on the border between Clerkenwell and Islington in EC1. Farringdon station is about half a mile away, a ten-minute walk, and it is the only station in London where the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and the Underground all meet. Buses 19 and 38 stop directly outside the door, and Exmouth Market is two minutes away on foot.
There is no lift in the building. One of the pair of two-bedroom flats is on the ground floor and genuinely step-free, and it must be requested for your dates in advance because it is not guaranteed. The other two-bedroom flat and the three-bedroom apartment are reached by stairs. We would not describe the property as wheelchair accessible beyond that one flat.
Check-in runs from 15:00 with an arrival window to 21:00, though the smart lock means you can let yourself in at any time after that with your code. Check-out is by 11:00. There is no reception. You will need to complete a key-code form through a third-party platform before you travel, and guests have described it as fiddly, so do it a few days ahead.
Yes. A refundable damage deposit of £500 is charged to a credit card about fourteen days before arrival and returned within seven days of check-out, subject to inspection. One guest in June 2026 also reported being asked for a £40 non-refundable damage-protection charge less than an hour before check-in, which was not in the listing. We cannot confirm that is standing policy, so ask when you book.
There are three flats. The two-bedroom apartments are about 80 square metres, with two doubles and a sofa bed sleeping up to six. The three-bedroom is about 130 square metres with two bathrooms, three doubles and a sofa bed, sleeping up to eight. A guest who brought eight thought six was the more comfortable number in practice.
Not at the building. The address is also inside both the Congestion Charge zone and the ULEZ, so driving here is expensive: the Congestion Charge has been £18 a day since 2 January 2026, with the full electric-vehicle exemption ending on 25 December 2025, and the ULEZ adds £12.50 a day for non-compliant vehicles. The nearest public car park is NCP Saffron Hill on St Cross Street, about six minutes' walk, with a 1.90-metre height limit. Come by train.
Children are welcome. The reservation listing carries an adults-only tag which is simply wrong: the house rules allow children of any age accompanied by an adult, cots are free on request for children under three, and families make up a good share of the recent reviews. There are no extra beds, so the sofa bed is the only flex on numbers.
No, none of the flats has air conditioning, which is normal for London apartments and genuinely uncomfortable during a heatwave. The windows open but the building sits on a busy junction and the glazing is thin, so cooling the rooms means letting the traffic in. If you are visiting in high summer, bring a fan.
Yes. King's Cross Cozy Apartments is the property's original name, and the reservation listing still runs under that slug, which is why some sites label it as the former King's Cross Cozy Apartments. It is operated by Veevo Home Ltd. It is not 62-66 Farringdon by condokeeper, which is a separate building nearby under different management.
Both are direct from Farringdon station, a ten-minute walk away. The Elizabeth line reaches Heathrow in roughly thirty-eight minutes and Thameslink reaches Gatwick in about forty-five, neither requiring a change. That connection is one of the main reasons people book this particular address.
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A whole flat, two minutes from Exmouth Market
Eighty to a hundred and thirty square metres in zone one, with your own kitchen, your own front door and a smart lock that lets you in whenever you land.
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