Glasshouse Street is where the (fictional) nightclub Barrack is meant to be located.

On the night of Lula Landry’s death, driver Kieran Kolovas-Jones takes rapper Deeby Macc to the Barrack nightclub. “Friday night at Barrack’s best hip-hop night in London.” Kieran tells Strike that Deeby must have liked it, because it was gone three by the time he came out again. This essentially gives Macc somewhat of an alibi for the murder.

In Part 2, Chapter 10, Strike walks to Barrack from the St James’ side.

“The entrance to Barrack, the nightclub which had so pleased Deeby Macc that he had remained there for hours, fresh off the plane from Los Angeles, was only a short walk from Piccadilly Circus. The façade looked as if it was made out of industrial concrete, and the name was picked out in shining black letters, vertically placed. The club extended up over four floors. As Strike had expected, its doorway was surmounted by CCTV cameras, whose range, he thought, would cover most of the street. He walked around the building, noting the fire exits, and making for himself a rough sketch of the area.”

“When he had decided that the streets surrounding Barrack had no more to tell him, Strike continued on foot, making notes of yellow lines in the vicinity, of Friday-night parking restrictions and of those establishments nearby that also had their own security cameras. His notes complete, he felt that he had earned a cup of tea and a bacon roll on expenses, both of which he enjoyed in a small café, while reading an abandoned copy of the Daily Mail.”

The name of the cafe isn’t mentioned.

Since the nightclub isn’t actually real, it’s anyone’s guess which concrete building on the street is meant to be Barrack, if any in particular.

If you ever find yourself on Glasshouse Street, you may also be interested in visiting Cafe Royal. It’s where they filmed the scene at the beginning of The Ink Black Heart TV adaptation.

Find Glasshouse Street on the map below.