Metro Bank Address: What to Put on a Form
If a form is asking for the Metro Bank bank address, here is the answer to copy:
One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA
That is the registered office, and it works for every Metro Bank account on any form: payroll, Direct Debit, or an international transfer. Metro Bank calls its branches "stores", which does not help when a form asks for a bank address. Skip the stores: the registered office at One Southampton Row answers every form.
At a glance
- The address to use
- One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA
- Needed for UK payments?
- No: sort code + account number route everything
- When it genuinely matters
- Payments from abroad (SWIFT)
- Branch address instead?
- Works, but unnecessary
🏦 What to put for bank address
You probably don't need it
Your employer does not need it
Payroll runs on BACS, which routes on sort code and account number only. The address box is a hangover from paper forms. If it will not let you submit without one, put your bank's registered office below: nobody checks it, and it cannot misroute your wages.
Metro Bank registered office
One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA
Registered offices taken from each bank’s own website in August 2026: check Metro Bank’s current details. Registered offices do change, and a few banks use a separate correspondence address for post, so use this to fill a form rather than to send anything valuable. Nothing you select here is sent anywhere.
Why this address, and not a branch
Metro Bank plc is registered at One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA. However attached you are to your local store, its address is no more connected to your account's routing than any other: sort code and account number do all the work.
You do not need your branch's address, even if you know it. UK payments route on sort code and account number alone, and the registered office is correct for every Metro Bank account on any form.
When the form actually needs it
Most of the time it does not. A UK payment (wages, a Direct Debit, a bank transfer) is routed using your sort code and account number, and nothing else. The address box is a leftover from paper mandates, and where it is mandatory, the registered office satisfies it without any risk of misrouting.
The exception is a payment from abroad. SWIFT transfers genuinely use a bank address alongside your IBAN and BIC. For a payment from abroad, give the sender One Southampton Row with your IBAN and the BIC from Metro's international payment guidance.
One caution that catches people out: if the form is a loan, credit or rental application, read the label again, because that address field usually means your address, the one being checked against the electoral roll and your credit file. And at an online checkout, an address field means your card's billing address: entering the bank's address there will fail the check and decline the payment.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use my local Metro Bank store's address?
You can, but the registered office is the better habit: it is permanent, public, and what Metro itself puts on legal documents.
What do I put if the form asks for a branch name too?
The branch that holds your account if you know it, or simply the registered office. Nothing checks this field against a live branch list.
General information, not financial advice. Registered offices can move: the address above was verified in August 2026, and the bank's own site is always the final word. For other banks, see what to put for a bank address.
