68-72, Queen Victoria Street EC4 is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. Commercial building. 3 related planning applications.

68-72, Queen Victoria Street EC4

WRENN ID
lesser-casement-crimson
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
Commercial building
Address
68-72, Queen Victoria Street EC4, City and County of the City of London, EC4N 4SJ
OS grid reference
TQ 324 810
Coordinates
51.51271, -0.09289
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Nos 68 to 72 on Queen Victoria Street, built around 1870, feature a stone-faced façade in a restrained French classical style. The ground floor has shopfronts situated between pilasters, topped with a frieze and a dentil cornice. Number 70 possibly retains its original shopfront, which includes three round-headed arches. The first and second floors are connected by channelled pilaster strips. The first-floor windows are round-headed, adorned with escutcheons and garlands, with the central window featuring a broken segmental pediment. The second-floor windows are segmental-headed and have deeply projecting sills. Above this, the third floor is treated as an attic, set above a dentil cornice, and features a pierced crowning balustrade with a central inset stone dormer that has a broken segmental pediment. The building has a slated roof.

Local climate

68-72, Queen Victoria Street EC4 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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  • Sale history — 4 transactions since 1995
  • Related listed building consents — 3 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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