The station is located at the junction of High Holborn, Hatton Garden and Gray's Inn Road, with subway entrances giving access to the ticket office under the roadway.

31–33,[9] approximately 400 feet (122 m) to the west, closer to High Holborn's junction with Chancery Lane.

Originally provided with four lifts between ground and platform levels, the station was rebuilt in the early 1930s to operate with escalators.

[11] It is one of eight Underground stations with a deep-level air-raid shelter underneath it; after World War II this was turned into Kingsway telephone exchange.

Access to the shelter was via the original station building and lift shaft as well as subsidiary entrances in Furnival Street and Took's Court.