Holborn and ClerkenwellPhoto: don cload, CC BY-SA 2.0
The Clerk & Well
Gastropub
From published sources
Pubs with Rooms in Holborn and Clerkenwell
Hatton Garden's jewellers, Dickens's Saffron Hill and Clerkenwell's old workshops, with three pubs that let rooms between Chancery Lane and Farringdon.
Last reviewed October 2026.
Holborn and Clerkenwell at a glance
We cover 3 pubs with rooms in Holborn and Clerkenwell. 1 says no to dogs in the bedrooms. We haven't found a bedroom dog policy for 2. 1 is a gastropub or serious dining pub.
Pub details last checked October 2026.
Holborn and Clerkenwell sit on the western edge of the City, where the law courts and Gray’s Inn give way to Hatton Garden’s diamond dealers and Clerkenwell’s old workshops, now full of design studios and restaurants. It is a good area to stay in if you want to be in the middle of London without being in the middle of the tourist crowds: Farringdon station puts the Elizabeth line, Thameslink and three Tube lines within a few minutes’ walk, and Smithfield, the Barbican and St Paul’s are all on foot.
The three pubs here are older than the rooms above them. The One Tun on Saffron Hill has been an ale house on its site since 1759 and, by its own account, was a Dickens haunt in the 1830s, with the Three Cripples of Oliver Twist a lodging house next door. The Yorkshire Grey, on the corner of Theobalds Road and Gray’s Inn Road, is a Grade II listed building of 1877. The Clerk & Well, on Clerkenwell Road, was the Duke of York until 2010 and was renamed after the well that gave the district its name.
All three are Pub & Rooms houses, with boutique bedrooms of three to eight rooms above a working bar. That makes them small and personal, but it also means stairs, no lifts, and the noise that comes with a busy pub downstairs. We have not found a published price for any of them, so check the dates on the pub’s own booking page.
The streets around these pubs carry more stories than most. Dickens is the obvious thread: he took chambers at Furnival’s Inn on High Holborn in December 1834, began The Pickwick Papers there, and later sent Fagin to Saffron Hill in Oliver Twist, which is why every Saffron Hill claim to be Dickensian is worth a pinch of salt. Clerkenwell has darker documented history too, from the Fenian gunpowder blast that wrecked the prison wall in December 1867 and killed twelve people to the Hatton Garden safe-deposit burglary of Easter 2015. Older still is the Clerks’ Well on Farringdon Lane, which gave the district its name and survives behind a window, though the tale that medieval parish clerks staged miracle plays at it rests on tradition rather than hard record.
In Holborn and Clerkenwell
Dog policy, compared
| Pub | Dogs in bedroom | Dogs at dinner | Charge | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Clerk & Well Holborn and Clerkenwell | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| The One Tun Holborn and Clerkenwell | No dogs in rooms | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | From published sources |
| Yorkshire Grey Holborn and Clerkenwell | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not confirmed | Not yet researched |
Food, compared
All of this is from published sources — none of these pubs have been confirmed with us directly yet.
| Pub | Standard | Kitchen | Booking |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Clerk & Well Holborn and Clerkenwell | Gastropub | Every day | Not confirmed |
| The One Tun Holborn and Clerkenwell | Pub grub | Closed Sun | Not confirmed |
| Yorkshire Grey Holborn and Clerkenwell | Pub grub | Closed Sun | Not confirmed |
Questions people ask about Holborn and Clerkenwell
- What is the nearest Tube to pubs with rooms in Holborn and Clerkenwell?
- The One Tun is a minute or so from Farringdon station (Elizabeth line, Thameslink, Circle, Hammersmith & City and Metropolitan), which also serves the Clerk & Well, about 8 minutes away. The Yorkshire Grey is about 5 minutes from Chancery Lane (Central line) and 10 from Holborn (Central and Piccadilly). Farringdon's Elizabeth line is the direct link to Heathrow.
- What should I expect from a room above a pub here?
- Small, individually styled boutique rooms over a busy bar. All three pubs belong to the same Pub & Rooms group, so the rooms follow a similar style. Listings for the One Tun say the bar and reception are unattended after 23:00 Monday to Saturday (after 21:00 on Sundays), with a night porter on call, and that there is no lift and two or three flights of stairs. Reviews of the Clerk & Well mention a steep staircase and rooms directly above the bar. We haven't stayed in any of them, so book early and ask for a room away from the bar.
- What is there to do near these pubs?
- Hatton Garden, London's jewellery quarter, is on the doorstep of the One Tun and the Yorkshire Grey, and Leather Lane's weekday street market runs opposite the Clerk & Well. The Clerk's Well that gave Clerkenwell its name survives in Farringdon Lane, with visits by appointment through Islington Local History Centre, according to the Clerk & Well's guest information. Staple Inn's timbered front on High Holborn, Smithfield and, further out, Bloomsbury and the British Museum are all within walking distance. We found no pub with rooms in Bloomsbury itself.