Open House 2020

Saturday 19 September, 11am – 5pm

We’ll be opening our doors to the public for the first time since February as part of next weekend’s Open House festival.

Join us to see inside House 1 of Peter Salter’s award-winning housing project. One of the largest houses on the site, House 1 displays many of the key features of the scheme and allows you to experience the rich textural qualities that the houses offer – from the reverberative black steel of the staircases to the softer clay and straw walls of the upstairs yurt. 

Bring your own headphones and mobile phone to access our specially-created audio tour in which our Keeper Laura Mark describes the ideas behind the spaces and materials at Walmer Yard. 

Please note: We will only be able to admit six visitors into the building at any one time and those waiting will be asked to form a socially-distanced queue on the street outside. When inside the house we ask that you wear a mask and stay 2m apart from other visitors wherever possible. 

Open House 2020: Virtual Tour

Friday 18 September, 4pm

Walmer Yard’s Keeper Laura Mark will give a virtual tour of the houses and courtyard as part of Open House 2020.

Join the tour on our instagram @WalmerYard.

Sensory Walk

Saturday 2 November, 11am

Smell is rarely used to discuss architecture. Smells form part of our memories and our present engagement with spaces and surroundings but they are often elusive – disappearing before they can be described or pinned down. 

Designer and researcher Kate McLean is one of a small but growing number of innovative practitioners dedicated to the study and capture of this highly nuanced field.

She will lead a sensory walk around Walmer Yard and the surrounding streets of Notting Hill.