Australia House
The Australian High Commission's grand marble banking hall, doubling as Gringotts Wizarding Bank in the first Harry Potter film.
- Landmark
- Price: Free
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Did you know
The entrance hall's marble floor and columns were filmed as Gringotts' banking hall in 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (2001). The building is a real, still-functioning diplomatic mission, not a museum.
Local tip
It's a working High Commission, not a tourist attraction. You can view the entrance hall from the door, but there's no general public access beyond that.
Finding it
- Address
- Australian High Commission, Strand, St Clement Danes, Covent Garden, City of Westminster, Greater London, England, WC2B 4LA
- Nearest station
- Temple (Tube), 122 m away
Details change, so check with the place before you set off.
More places nearby
- Somerset HouseA grand neoclassical building on the Strand with a courtyard and fountain court open to all, plus the Courtauld Gallery, exhibitions and a river terrace.
- Twinings MuseumA tiny museum at the back of the 216 Strand Twinings shop, on the site the tea company has continuously traded from since 1717, generally reckoned to be London's oldest business run by the same family on the same site.
- The Courtauld GalleryAn art gallery inside Somerset House holding one of the UK's finest Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collections, from Manet and Van Gogh to the most significant group of Cézannes in Britain.
- Hunterian MuseumThe Royal College of Surgeons' museum at Lincoln's Inn Fields, tracing the history of surgery through 18th-century anatomist John Hunter's own specimen collection, reopened in 2023 after a five-year, £4.6 million redevelopment.