Rooms
Meeting rooms for 4–12, with screens and whiteboards. Six phone booths and two quiet rooms on every floor.
The Bale Store · Holbeck, Leeds
Room to work.
Four floors of desks, studios and shared rooms in an 1887 wool warehouse, nine minutes on foot from Leeds station.
Frame 01 / North light
Tenter Lane / Holbeck / Leeds
02 / Common ground / Since 2021
A place with some history in it.
The Bale Store was built in 1887 to stack fleeces four storeys high. It stood empty from 1979. We reopened it in 2021 — keeping the brick, iron columns, timber ceilings, roof trusses, steel windows and green loading doors.
1887
Built to stack fleeces
1979
Emptied
2021
Reopened as Commonwork
03 / Four floors / One address
Come for a day. Settle in for longer.
Choose the amount of space and routine that fits: an open desk, your own fixed place, or a lockable studio for a small team. All prices include VAT at 20%.
- 01Day pass£20 a day · a first-floor hot desk
- 02Flexi & ResidentFrom £145 a month · the open floor
- 03Fixed desk£275 a month · access at any hour
- 04StudioFrom £790 a month · 2–8 people
04 / The building / G—3
Four floors. Four rhythms.
Every floor has six soundproofed phone booths and two quiet rooms, free for members and booked for no more than an hour at a time.
Frame 01 / 04 · Ground floor
G — Café + hall
The café and the hall
Coffee from eight, soup and sandwiches until three, and long tables open to all. In the evening the back half becomes a hall for 50 seated or 80 standing, with a projector and a bar.
Frame 02 / 04 · First floor
1 — Hot desks
The open floor
Sixty desks under the original timber ceiling. Window seats are first come, first served. Quiet until noon by agreement; calls go to the booths.
Frame 03 / 04 · Second floor
2 — Fixed desks
Desks that stay yours
Forty desks in clusters of four, each with a monitor arm and a lockable pedestal. Three meeting rooms line the north wall, seating four to twelve.
Frame 04 / 04 · Third floor
3 — Studios
Rooms with a door
Fourteen lockable studios for two to eight, glazed onto the corridor beneath the roof trusses; furnished or left bare.
05 / A weekday / In five frames
The building finds its pace.
06 / Membership / Month to month
A clear price for the space you use.
Day pass
£20a day
Any desk on the open first floor, 08:00–18:00; a coffee to start; Wi-Fi, printing, kitchens and a phone booth when one is free.Flexi ten
£145a month
Ten days a month on the open floor, two meeting-room hours a month, and every event with a guest.Resident
£190a month
Any hot desk every weekday, 08:00–18:00; four meeting-room hours a month, a locker and post signed for.- Registered address +£15 a month
Fixed desk
£275a month
Your own desk and lockable pedestal on the second floor; fob access at any hour, eight meeting-room hours a month, and a registered company address.Studio
From£790a month
A lockable third-floor room: £790 for two people, up to £2,540 for eight; fob access at any hour for the team, six meeting-room hours per person, and your name on the board in reception.
Prices include VAT at 20%. Monthly plans run month to month with one calendar month's notice. Studios ask three months' notice. Invoices are issued on the 1st.
07 / The practical things
Nothing ornamental. Everything considered.
The green doors
The loading doors on Tenter Lane are the front door now: level, wide and open from eight.
Access
A lift to all four floors, a level front door, an accessible toilet on every floor and a hearing loop in the hall.
Bicycles + coats
A secure store for 40 bikes, a pump, showers, and somewhere to dry a coat.
Internet + print
Fibre with Wi-Fi on every floor, wired ports at the fixed desks, and printing included.
Café
Open to the street 08:00–16:00. Members take 20% off.
Dogs
Well-behaved dogs are welcome on the ground and first floors. The second and third floors stay dog-free.
08 / Meet / Gather / Make room
A room when the conversation needs one.
The Long Room, the Sorting Room and a third north-wall meeting room seat four to twelve, with screens and whiteboards. Downstairs, the hall holds 50 seated or 80 standing, with a projector and a bar. Members book rooms from their monthly allowance; guests sign in at reception.
09 / 236 people / About 82 small companies
Familiar faces. Different work.
Most teams here are one to six people: designers, developers, two architects, a translation agency and an accountant among them.
Monday / Breakfast
Coffee, toast and the week beginning around one table.
Wednesday / Lunchtime talk
One member shares a piece of work or an idea.
Every other Thursday / 17:30
Drinks in the hall. Bring a guest; someone shows what they've been making. Lights off at nine.
Friday / The note
A short email with next week's diary and news from the building.
A member's view
10 / One voice / Winter to now
I came in on a day pass in our first winter and never really left. Two of my four designers were people I met at Thursday drinks.
11 / Nine minutes / From Leeds station
Across the river. Around the corner.
The Bale Store, 22 Tenter Lane, Holbeck, Leeds LS11 9EG. Leave Leeds station by the south entrance, cross the river, then follow Water Lane west to Tenter Lane — the brick building with the green loading doors. Two visitor spaces in the yard can be booked at reception; there is a public car park four minutes' walk away and secure storage for 40 bikes.
- 01Station
- 02River
- 03Water Lane
- 04The Bale Store
12 / Come and look around
Twenty minutes. All four floors.
Tours leave reception at 11:00 and 15:00 on weekdays. Tell us which day suits you and the kind of space you have in mind.
Commonwork receptionThe Bale Store, 22 Tenter Lane
Holbeck, Leeds LS11 9EGhello@commonwork.example
Tours weekdays at 11:00 and 15:00
14 / The door is on Tenter Lane
Work somewhere worth arriving at.
Drop into the café from 08:00, try a day on the first floor, or take the twenty-minute tour.
The Bale Store · 22 Tenter Lane · Holbeck · Leeds LS11 9EG