It’s been a long time since our last blog post and SO much has changed since then…
If you’ve googled ‘Swindon escape rooms’ recently, you probably spotted that the pin labelled Co-Decode has disappeared from BSS House. And reappeared in the middle of Morley Street in town!
We have finished the mammoth task of dismantling the entire old venue in BSS House and transforming a new building into the perfect home for our games. As you can imagine, we were absolutely thrilled when we recently found out that our new escape room venue had been acknowledged with an award.
Local Building Excellence Awards
On 11 June 2025 we made our way to the civic offices on Euclid Street to join the Local Building Excellence Awards ceremony. Each year, Swindon building projects that stand out in terms of building quality, vision and implementation are credited this way.
Co-Decode Swindon Escape Rooms were thrilled to not only be nominated, but to receive the award for Best Non-Residential Conversion. The award was handed to us by lovely Mayor Howard, and it was an honour to be recognised alongside much bigger players than us.
You can find out more about the awards here. Sadly, as one of the smaller companies we are not mentioned by name, but if you squint you can spot Alex in the photo!
From old…
Our new escape room venue is located at 29-30 Morley Street. Right next to the big Granville Street car park and within easy reach of great restaurants and bars.
This address used to be two separate buildings back when it was built in late Victorian times, but some time around the 1970s it was combined into one big set-up. Downstairs had a separate corridor to allow direct access to the first floor, which is why it still looks like we have two front doors.
When we took over the building, the ground floor was used by a local tattoo artist who was about to retire. The entire upstairs area including the back extension was disused, but had some remnants of old dance and photography studios still in place.
… to new!
