A virtual office Old Street address does one thing brilliantly: it puts your company on the Silicon Roundabout without putting you in a lease. What almost nobody in the search results explains is what happens the day you need more than the postcode — and that is where a virtual office Old Street address stops being a £21-a-month decision. This guide prices the whole ladder, rung by rung, using Wezoo’s own inventory across all 17 EC1V and EC2A addresses. If you are still deciding whether the product is right for you at all, start with our complete guide to virtual offices.
Here is the short version. The address is the cheapest thing in the building. Everything you might actually need the address for — an hour in a room, a desk for the day, a door of your own — is priced separately, and in Old Street most of those rungs are not even for sale at the door you registered.
Wezoo snapshot — virtual office Old Street (EC1V & EC2A)
- 17 virtual-office addresses in EC1V and EC2A, out of 256 across London
- Meeting room by the hour at the same door: 5 of 17 — £24.00 to £180.00 per hour (median £63.60)
- Hot desk by the day at the same door: 2 of 17 — £42.00 to £58.80 per day
- Day office at the same door: 1 of 17 — £154.80 per day
- Private-office desk by the month: 10 of 17 publish a rate — £314 to £795 per desk (median £483)
- Top operators: Fora (6 addresses), Knotel (4), WeWork (2), Mindspace (2)
Wezoo rates are the lowest published price per building, tax included, checked 12 July 2026. Virtual offices themselves carry no listed price on Wezoo — they are an enquiry, not a checkout.
What a virtual office Old Street address actually includes
Strip the marketing away and every provider is selling the same two things: a street address you are allowed to use, and someone to receive the post that arrives at it. That is rung zero. It is the rung with the advertised price on it.
Everything else is an add-on, and the add-ons are where the real money sits:
- Registered office with Companies House — often a separate line on the invoice, not part of the headline rate.
- Director’s service address — a second, separately priced address that keeps your home off the public register.
- Mail forwarding — scanning is usually included these days; physical forwarding is postage plus a handling fee, per item.
- Call answering — a dedicated number and a human, priced monthly.
- Meeting-room access — the rung that decides whether the address is a place or a label.
That last one is the reason this guide exists. A virtual office Old Street address is only as useful as the building standing behind it, and Wezoo can tell you exactly which of those 17 buildings will let you walk in and book something.
The upsell ladder behind every virtual office Old Street address
We took all 17 virtual office Old Street addresses and asked the same question of each: what else does this door sell? The answer is a ladder with four rungs above the address, and in Old Street it is a strange shape — very short at the bottom, wide open at the top.
| Rung | What it buys | Old Street doors that sell it | Price range |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 — the address | Street address + mail handling | 17 of 17 | No listed price (enquiry) |
| 1 — an hour | Meeting room, per hour | 5 of 17 (29%) | £24.00 – £180.00 |
| 2 — a day at a desk | Hot desk, per day | 2 of 17 (12%) | £42.00 – £58.80 |
| 3 — a day in a room | Day office, per day | 1 of 17 (6%) | £154.80 |
| 4 — a desk of your own | Private office, per desk per month | 10 of 17 publish a rate | £314 – £795 |
Wezoo inventory, EC1V and EC2A, checked 12 July 2026.
Read that table twice, because it contradicts what most people assume. Across London as a whole, 58% of Wezoo’s 256 virtual-office addresses have an hourly meeting room at the same door. In Old Street, it is 29% — barely half the city rate. Yet every single one of the 17 will rent you a private office by the month.
The explanation is in the operator column. Fourteen of the 17 Old Street addresses belong to campus operators — Fora, Knotel, WeWork, Mindspace — and campus operators sell memberships and floors. They do not sell hours. So the ladder behind a Silicon Roundabout address is missing its bottom steps and reinforced at the top. Mayfair sells you the meeting. Old Street sells you the move-in.
What does a virtual office Old Street address cost in 2026?
Two prices matter, and only one of them is ever advertised.
The advertised price (rung zero). Published provider rates for an EC2A registered-office address ran from roughly £21 per month when billed annually — one provider markets that as 69p a day — up to about £25 per month billed monthly. A director’s service address was advertised from around £2.50 per month, and at least one central-London provider publishes a separate fee of about £40 per month purely to use the address as your registered office. Mail forwarding was charged as postage plus a per-item handling fee. These are public provider prices, checked 12 July 2026; Wezoo does not set them.
The price of using it (rungs one to four). This is Wezoo’s own data, and it is an order of magnitude bigger. The median hour in a meeting room behind an Old Street address is £63.60. One hour costs more than two months of the address itself. A desk of your own runs £314 to £795 a month.
So the honest arithmetic for a founder is not “£21 a month”. It is “£21 a month, plus £63.60 every time I need to look like a company with a room.”
The 17 virtual office Old Street addresses on Wezoo
Every address below is a staffed, operator-run building — not a mailbox rack. Eight sit in EC1V, north and west of the roundabout.
| Building | Address | Postcode | Operator | Rungs sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Street | 167 City Road | EC1V 1NR | Regus | All four |
| Old Street | 142–146 Old Street | EC1V 9BW | Mindspace | Room, office |
| Albert House | 256–260 Old Street | EC1V 9DD | Fora | Office |
| Classic House | 174–180 Old Street | EC1V 9BP | Knotel | Office |
| 145 City Road | 145 City Road | EC1V 1AZ | WeWork | Office |
| Gilray House | 146–150 City Road | EC1V 2RL | Knotel | Office |
| Central Street | 71 Central Street | EC1V 8AB | Fora | Office |
| Dallington Street | 9 Dallington Street | EC1V 0LN | Fora | Office |
EC1V — eight addresses.
Nine more sit in EC2A, on the Shoreditch and Rivington Street side.
| Building | Address | Postcode | Operator | Rungs sold |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Huckletree | 1 Primrose Street | EC2A 2JN | Huckletree | Room, desk, office |
| Shoreditch | 52 Tabernacle Street | EC2A 4NJ | Runway East | Room, office |
| 9 Appold Street | 9 Appold Street | EC2A 2AP | Mindspace | Room, office |
| 1 Mark Square | 1 Mark Square | EC2A 4EG | WeWork | Office |
| Great Eastern Street | 21–33 Great Eastern Street | EC2A 3EJ | Fora | Office |
| 81 Rivington Street | 81 Rivington Street | EC2A 3AY | Fora | Office |
| The Black & White Building | 74 Rivington Street | EC2A 3AY | Fora | Office |
| 1 Finsbury Market | 1 Finsbury Market | EC2A 2BN | Knotel | Office |
| 2 Leonard Circus | 2 Leonard Circus | EC2A 4LW | Knotel | Office |
EC2A — nine addresses.
Eight of the seventeen are worth looking at up close, because they are the ones where the ladder above the address is actually priced.
Eight Old Street buildings, priced rung by rung
1. Old Street, 167 City Road — the only complete ladder
One address in EC1V sells you every rung: a meeting room from £52.01 an hour, a hot desk at £58.80 a day, a day office at £154.80, and a private desk from £355 a month. If you want the registered address and the option to escalate without changing buildings, this is the only door in Old Street that gives you all four. Smallest private suite: £1,065 a month.
Request Old Street, 167 City Road on Wezoo
2. Huckletree, 1 Primrose Street — the cheapest hour
£24.00 an hour is the cheapest meeting room behind any Old Street virtual-office address — a third of the neighbourhood’s top rate. Hot desks run £42.00 a day and a private desk starts at £650 a month. For a founder who registers the company here and needs a room for the occasional investor conversation, this is the least painful escalation on the list.
Request Huckletree, 1 Primrose Street on Wezoo
3. Shoreditch, 52 Tabernacle Street — the median hour
Three minutes from the roundabout, and the room rate — £63.60 an hour — sits exactly on the Old Street median. A private desk here is £795 a month, the highest published desk rate in the neighbourhood, which tells you something about who the building is built for: teams that have raised, not teams that are pitching.
Request Shoreditch, 52 Tabernacle Street on Wezoo
4. 9 Appold Street — the Broadgate edge
An EC2A postcode that sits close enough to Broadgate to read as City rather than tech. Rooms from £72.00 an hour. Useful if your clients are financial and your engineers are not — the postcode says Shoreditch, the walk says Liverpool Street.
Request 9 Appold Street on Wezoo
5. Old Street, 142–146 Old Street — the top of the range
An actual Old Street address, on Old Street. Rooms start at £180.00 an hour — the most expensive hour behind any virtual office address in the neighbourhood, and seven times the cheapest. Same postcode district, seven times the price. The postcode is not the product.
Request Old Street, 142–146 Old Street on Wezoo
6. 1 Mark Square — the cheapest desk
£314 per desk per month — the lowest published desk rate of the 17, and 42% below the London median of £540. Smallest suite: £680 a month. If the plan is “register now, move in within a year”, this is the cheapest end of that plan.
Request 1 Mark Square on Wezoo
7. 145 City Road — the escalation address
£417 per desk per month, smallest suite £980. City Road is the spine of the Silicon Roundabout cluster, and this is one of the two EC1V addresses where the jump from registered address to real floor is a phone call rather than a search.
Request 145 City Road on Wezoo
8. Albert House, 256–260 Old Street — the Old Street name
If the point of the exercise is that your letterhead reads “Old Street, London EC1V”, this is the address that says it most plainly. Private desks from £441 a month, smallest suite £1,400. No hourly room here — if you need one, book it three minutes away.
Can an EC1V address be your registered office?
Yes — provided the building behind it is real. Since the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act took effect in March 2024, every UK company must keep an “appropriate address” as its registered office: a document delivered by hand or by post has to come to the attention of someone acting for the company, and delivery has to be capable of being recorded by an acknowledgement of receipt. PO boxes no longer qualify.
That rule is, in practice, a test of whether anyone is standing behind the door. All 17 of the Old Street addresses on Wezoo are staffed, operator-run workspaces with a reception that signs for post — which is exactly the condition the legislation describes. A pure mail drop is not. Check the current rules on the Companies House pages, and the registration process itself at GOV.UK. This is general information, not legal advice — confirm with your accountant before you file.
Two more things worth knowing. Your registered office appears on the public register, so anyone can look it up. And your director’s service address is a separate entry — using an Old Street address for the company but your home for yourself defeats most of the privacy you are paying for. Our guide to registered office addresses in London covers the filing detail.
Why founders choose a Silicon Roundabout address
The nickname arrived in 2008, the government’s Tech City initiative followed in 2010, and the cluster has been the default London answer to “where are the startups?” ever since. That is the whole asset, and it is what a virtual office Old Street address is really buying. An EC1V or EC2A line on a pitch deck signals to an investor, a technical hire or an enterprise buyer that you live in the same ecosystem they do — without you signing anything.
The practical case is just as real. Old Street station puts the Northern line and Great Northern rail under the roundabout; Transport for London has the current service detail. Liverpool Street, and with it the Elizabeth line, is a ten-minute walk from the EC2A end. For a distributed team that meets twice a quarter, that matters more than the postcode does.
Founders who want the address and somewhere to actually work should look at coworking around Old Street — because as the ladder table shows, only two of these 17 doors will sell you a desk for a single day.
Old Street vs Mayfair vs the wider City: which address fits?
| Old Street (EC1V / EC2A) | Mayfair (W1J / W1K / W1S) | London, all districts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wezoo virtual-office addresses | 17 | 8 | 256 |
| Doors that sell an hour | 5 of 17 (29%) | 7 of 8 (88%) | 58% |
| Median meeting room | £63.60/hour | £91.20/hour | £60.00/hour |
| Median private desk | £483/month | Floor-plate lets | £540/month |
| Signals | Tech, product, venture | Finance, law, family office | — |
Mayfair figures from Wezoo’s W1J/W1K/W1S set.
An hour behind an Old Street address costs 30% less than an hour behind a Mayfair virtual office address — £63.60 against £91.20. The desk is cheaper too: Old Street’s median of £483 sits 11% below the London median. The Silicon Roundabout premium, it turns out, is a reputational premium, not a price one. What you give up is optionality at the bottom of the ladder: in Mayfair, seven doors out of eight will rent you an hour. In Old Street, five out of seventeen will.
Choose Old Street if your buyers, hires and investors are technical. Choose Mayfair or the City if they are financial. Choose on the ladder, not the label.
Where does Old Street actually end?
The roundabout is a four-postcode junction: EC1V to the north, EC1Y to the south-west, EC2A to the south-east, N1 to the north-east. We counted EC1V and EC2A, which is the honest definition of the Old Street cluster. Cross the road and the numbers change — Wezoo lists three more addresses in EC1Y, one of which is literally on Old Street Yard yet carries an EC1Y postcode, not an EC1V one.
If a provider offers you a virtual office Old Street address, check the postcode district before you print it on anything. In London, the neighbourhood is the postcode district — and the postcode district is what a client, an investor or a bank will actually see.
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Frequently asked questions
Is a virtual office Old Street address valid as a registered office?
Yes, if the building qualifies as an “appropriate address” under the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act — meaning post delivered there reaches someone acting for the company and delivery can be acknowledged. All 17 of the EC1V and EC2A addresses on Wezoo are staffed, operator-run buildings, which is the condition the rules describe. PO boxes do not qualify. Confirm with your accountant before filing.
How much does a virtual office Old Street address cost?
Published provider rates for an EC2A address ran from about £21 per month billed annually to about £25 billed monthly, checked 12 July 2026, with registered-office and director’s-address add-ons priced separately. The bigger number is what the address costs to use: the median meeting room behind one of these doors is £63.60 an hour, and a private desk runs £314 to £795 a month.
Can I book a meeting room at my virtual office Old Street address?
Only at 5 of the 17 addresses. Old Street’s virtual-office buildings are mostly campus operators who sell memberships and floors rather than hours — across London, 58% of virtual-office addresses have an hourly room at the same door, but in EC1V and EC2A it is 29%. Rates range from £24.00 to £180.00 an hour.
What is the difference between an EC1V and an EC2A virtual office address?
EC1V is the City Road and Old Street side of the roundabout — eight of the addresses, and the only one that sells all four products. EC2A is the Shoreditch and Rivington Street side — nine addresses, including the cheapest hour and the cheapest desk. Both read as Silicon Roundabout to anyone looking at your letterhead.
Is Old Street a better virtual office address than Mayfair?
It is a different signal, not a better one. Old Street reads as tech and venture; Mayfair reads as finance and law. On price, Old Street is the cheaper end — its median room hour is 30% below Mayfair’s and its median desk sits below the London median — but Mayfair has far more doors that will rent you a room by the hour.
Virtual office Old Street: the address is the cheapest rung
The search results will quote you 69p a day and stop there. The number is true and it is also the least important thing about a virtual office Old Street address, because the address is rung zero on a ladder that runs to £795 a month. Price the rung you will actually stand on.
Seventeen doors carry a virtual office Old Street address. Five will sell you an hour, two will sell you a day, and every one of them will sell you a floor. Pick the one whose next rung you can afford — then read what a virtual office address really is before you file.
