Tours - 2026 season

We are glad to share our heritage by offering guided tours, and we look forward to your visit.

Heritage Open Days are 18 and 19 September this year. We are open for free 15 minute tours between 11 and 3 on those days. More details, including Guildford Jazz's event on 19 September, are on our Visits and Tours page.

Regular tours take place from April to October. The 2026 season is under way and will run through until Friday 30th October.   For more details, including of the few days days when  regular tours will  not run, please click here.

Private tours can be booked at other times.

Please see our Visits and Tours page for details.

We are in the later stages of building works to preserve the grade 2 listed building. The contractor Prestigious Stonemasonry Ltd. has been employed to carry out urgently needed works on the Old Cloth Hall under the guidance of architects Thomas Ford and Partners.

The original building is almost 400 years old. It was originally known as the “Manufactory” and was a custom built factory built 90 years before the Industrial Revolution. Since that time the building has had many uses and has been extended, the latest being the Victorian tower evident in North Street.

The current repair and renovation works include making the building water tight, repairs to masonry and brickwork, making it safe and operable to prospective future tenants.

The scaffolding has recently been taken down, allowing us all to see the stonework on the tower which has been restored and made safe.

It is planned that the current works will be completed by the end of July 2026, and we look forward once again to the building being occupied and adding to the activity in North Street and Jeffries Passage.