Staple Inn

It survived the Great Fire of London, was extensively damaged by a Nazi German Luftwaffe aerial bomb in 1944 but was subsequently restored.

It has a distinctive timber-framed façade, cruck roof and an internal courtyard.

The historic interiors include a great hall, used by the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries.

The ground-floor street frontage is let to shops and restaurants, required to use plainer signage than they do on less sensitive buildings.

For a time, the building appeared on the packaging of Old Holborn tobacco.