The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 June 1972. Sculpture. 1 related planning application.

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner

WRENN ID
deep-latch-mallow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
City of London
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 June 1972
Type
Sculpture
Address
The Golden Boy of Pye Corner, 1-4, Giltspur Street, City and County of the City of London, EC1A 9DD
OS grid reference
TQ 318 815
Coordinates
51.51726, -0.10157
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner is a late 19th-century building that has undergone significant alterations. It is listed primarily for its late 17th-century carved and painted figure of a naked boy on a bracket, which is set into the return wall to Cock Lane. This figure was erected to commemorate the spot where The Great Fire of London was finally extinguished in 1666. Originally, the figure had wings and featured an inscription on its breast and arms that read, "This boy is in memory put up for the late Fire of London occasioned by The Sin of Gluttony, 1666."

Local climate

The Golden Boy of Pye Corner 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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