Current Several
gastropubs line the street, including the
Fox and Anchor. The formerly-
DJ Mag #1 club
Fabric nightclub is located at No. 77A. Charterhouse Street is also the home of a 31 MWe
combined heat and power plant operated by Citigen (
E.ON) and located within and beneath the former PLA cold store.
Anglia Ruskin University has a campus in Charterhouse Street 19.
De Beers International diamond corporation
De Beers has been headquartered at No. 17 since 1979, except between 2017-2020, though the street has homed De Beers since the 1930s. According to
Bloomberg News, at the height of its power, over ninety per cent of the world's rough diamonds were held in the building, and by 2016, it housed over US$5 billion (£ billion, equivalent to £ billion in ) worth of gems in its underground vaults. After moving to
Carlton House Terrace in 2017, plans to sell the building were proposed. The building was leased back on a long-term deal, with the intention that both De Beers and its parent company,
Anglo American plc, would move into the building by 2020. Following renovations by London architecture and design firm MCM, Anglo made No. 17 its global headquarters in 2021.
Smithfield Market The 19th century
Grade II listed Smithfield Market, designed by Victorian architect
Sir Horace Jones, is the dominant architectural feature of the area. The market, along with
Billingsgate Fish Market and
New Spitalfields Market are expected to move to a new consolidated site in
Dagenham Dock. The
Museum of London plans to move into the General Market Building on Smithfield when possible, vacating its nearby Barbican site in December 2022.
Previous tenants The street was formerly home to several
refrigerated warehouses serving Smithfield Meat Market including the Central Cold Store, the Metropolitan Cold Stores at 77A and
Port of London Authority Cold Store. The site on the corner of Farringdon Road was occupied by the 1960s Caxton House which was demolished in 2009 as part of the Farringdon station extension. ==References==