Basildon House is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Office building. 25 related planning applications.
Basildon House
- WRENN ID
- woven-mullion-moss
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- City of London
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 November 1977
- Type
- Office building
- Address
- Basildon House, 7-11, Moorgate, City and County of the City of London, EC2R 6AF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 326 813
- Coordinates
- 51.51526, -0.08984
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Basildon House is a late 19th-century building designed in a Baroque style with Grecian details. It stands three storeys high with two additional attic storeys that are set back. The building features three bays facing Moorgate and five bays on the return side. The ground floor is made of pink granite, which serves as a plinth.
The first and second floors are constructed from Portland stone and are adorned with polished granite giant Composite columns, which are square at the corners of the building. Each elevation has large bow oriel windows, with the one on Moorgate extending to the third floor. The main entablature projects forward over the columns and follows the curve of the oriels. The third floor, which acts as an attic storey, has bold sculpted volutes that support large urn finials, separating paired windows that are topped with pediments featuring carved tympana. The upper attic floor includes pedimented windows that break up a deep and richly decorated frieze.
Local climate
Basildon House sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 25 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings
Nearby listed buildings
- 51 and 52, Coleman Street EC2
- 13 and 15, Moorgate EC2
- 3 AND 4, LOTHBURY EC2 (See details for further address information)
- 53, Coleman Street EC2
- 54 and 55, Coleman Street EC2
- 4, Moorgate EC2
- Brown Shipley & Co Ltd
- Ye Olde Dr Butler's Head Public House
- 6, Lothbury EC2
- 13 and 14, Basinghall Street EC2