Ninety rooms in an old hop warehouse, two minutes from the river.
The Ferrier is an independent hotel on Sumner Street, between Tate Modern and Borough Market. Rooms and suites, a restaurant that locals book, a bar, a small spa in the brick vaults, and rooms for meetings of four to ninety.
A hotel the size of a street
We opened in May 2025 after three years restoring a five-storey 1890s warehouse built for a Borough hop merchant and later used as a print works. We kept the brick, the iron columns and the loading doors, and added a new wing around a planted courtyard.
There are 90 rooms and suites, from fifteen-square-metre Snugs to two top-floor suites with terraces. Every room has a proper bed, a real desk, fast Wi-Fi and a minibar priced like a corner shop. We are independent: owned and run by the two people who built it, with a team of 74.
Six ways to stay
Snug Double
15 m² · Double bed (140 × 200 cm) · up to 2 adults
Our smallest rooms: a proper double bed, a deep window seat and everything you need for a night or two on Bankside.
Flexible rates from £141 a night, VAT included.
Classic King
21 m² · King bed (180 × 200 cm) · up to 2 adults
The room most guests book: a king bed, a proper desk, an armchair by the window and a big walk-in shower.
Flexible rates from £174 a night, VAT included.
Classic Twin
21 m² · Two single beds (90 × 200 cm), can be zipped into a king · up to 2 adults
The Classic King layout with two singles that zip together. Good for colleagues, friends and parents with a teenager.
Flexible rates from £174 a night, VAT included.
Bankside View King
25 m² · King bed (180 × 200 cm) · up to 2 adults
Higher floors on the river side, with a view over the Bankside rooftops to the Thames and the dome of St Paul’s.
Flexible rates from £212 a night, VAT included.
Studio Suite
36 m² · King bed (180 × 200 cm) and a sofa bed · up to 3 adults
Corner rooms with windows on two sides, a sitting area, a freestanding bath and space to spread out for a longer stay.
Flexible rates from £284 a night, VAT included.
The Ferrier Suite
58 m² · King bed (200 × 200 cm), separate living room with sofa bed · up to 3 adults
Two top-floor suites with a separate living room and a 12 m² terrace looking over the river to St Paul’s.
Flexible rates from £462 a night, VAT included.
Pike Garden
Our restaurant, named after the medieval fish ponds that once lay behind Bankside. British cooking from Kent and Sussex growers, a pre-theatre menu, and a six-course chef’s menu at the end of the week.
The Wherry
A wherry was the boat the Bankside ferrymen rowed. Ours is a long zinc bar in the old loading bay, with London beer on draught, a short cocktail list and food until eleven.
The Undercroft
Three treatment rooms, a sauna, steam room and cold plunge in the warehouse vaults. Small and calm: there is no pool, and we don’t pretend otherwise.
Offsites, away days and dinners
Five rooms for four to ninety people, a day delegate rate that includes things you would otherwise pay extra for, and room blocks from ten rooms. One events team looks after you from the first enquiry to the last coffee.
4.6 out of 5 from 846 verified stays
Quiet, warm and five minutes from my client
Asked for a courtyard room and got one. Bed was excellent, desk was a real desk, and the shower is the best I’ve had in a London hotel. Breakfast was quick and the staff remembered my coffee on the second morning.
Alison M., Glasgow · Classic King, 2 nights, business
St Paul’s from the bath
We were upgraded to a view room for our anniversary without asking and there was a card and a half bottle of English fizz waiting. Dinner in Pike Garden was the highlight: the fish pie for two is huge. Walked to the Globe and back.
Tom and Priya, Bristol · Bankside View King, 3 nights, anniversary
Lovely staff
Gift voucher from my son. Staff were kind to my daughter, who uses a wheelchair, and the accessible room was genuinely well designed. Tate Modern is literally round the corner.
Jenny L., Manchester · Classic Twin, 2 nights, with my daughter
Where the ferrymen waited
Until Westminster Bridge opened in 1750, the only way across the river here was by boat. Bankside’s watermen waited for fares on stone seats along the river; one survives on Bear Gardens, a few minutes from our door. A ferrier is the old word for a ferryman.
- Tate Modern: 2 minutes’ walk
- Shakespeare’s Globe: 5 minutes
- Borough Market: 8 minutes
- Southwark station (Jubilee line): 7 minutes
- Blackfriars station (Thameslink, District, Circle): 8 minutes
- London Bridge station: 12 minutes
- Waterloo and the National Theatre: 18 minutes along the river