Books were sewn and glued here. Now people sit down at one long table.
The longest room in the house, at the far end of the yard, under open roof beams. It takes forty at one table or sixty standing, and it is let for small weddings, family birthdays, retreats and the occasional board meeting.
The bindery came last, in 1924, when the shop started making bound ledgers for the harbour office and the shipping agents. It has glass doors to the yard on one side and a fireplace big enough to stand in at the far end.
- Seated
- Forty at one table
- Standing
- Sixty
- Light
- Glass doors to the yard
- Sound
- Unamplified after 22:00
How it usually goes
A gathering takes the whole room for the day and evening. Upper Case cooks, and the menu is agreed a fortnight before. Most groups also take most of the rooms, which keeps the house quiet for everyone else.
Rue Haute is a residential street, so music indoors stops being amplified at ten. Bands that play without speakers can go on until midnight, and a string trio once played until one with the doors shut.
- Long oak table, or round tables of eight
- A screen and a projector for meetings
- The yard for drinks before dinner
- One person from the house for the whole day
Write to the desk with a date and a rough number of people and you will get a straight answer about whether it works.
Play happens in a single room of this house, the loft over the old shop, and in no other place. The Printed Room takes no bets online, opens no player accounts and handles no payments through this website.