Moorgate Underground Station is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Underground station. 11 related planning applications.
Moorgate Underground Station
- WRENN ID
- scattered-oriel-dust
- 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
- Underground station
- Address
- Moorgate Underground Station, 137-141, Moorgate Ec2, City and County of the City of London
- OS grid reference
- TQ 327 816
- Coordinates
- 51.51851, -0.08838
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Moorgate Underground Station is an underground station with a shop, built in 1900 by T Phillips Figgis. The building is constructed of red brick, featuring Portland stone dressings on the ground and upper floors, and has a slate roof. It stands six storeys high, with a four-storey return that includes a roof storey. The ground storey is stone-faced and features massive keyed segmental-headed arches, with the arches on the return elevation being blind. These arches contain the station entrance and shopfront.
The first, second, and third storeys have sash windows above continuous cill bands, with architraves and cornices; the windows on the first storey are keyed. The fourth and fifth storeys have sashes in eared architraves, beneath a deeply projecting plain cornice. The sixth storey features a gable end with pediment moulding that corresponds with the main cornice, and a central three-light window with attached colonettes to the mullions, along with a continuous cornice and a round window above.
The building includes a round corner tower designed as an oriel, which is supported by attached columns flanking the shop entrance, featuring plain square caps and a carved relief band instead of a cornice. The intermediate storeys have three-light leaded-light windows, while the fourth storey is rusticated stone with round-headed windows between attached columns supported by enriched corbels. The principal cornice is carved around the column caps, topped by a leaded dome. The ticket hall was remodelled in the 1930s, and the platforms have lost their original decoration. This station is noted for its particularly handsome design.
Local climate
Moorgate Underground Station 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.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1999
- Related listed building consents — 11 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
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