Buckley House 4, Little Britain is a Grade II listed building in the City of London local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 November 1977. House. 1 related planning application.

Buckley House 4, Little Britain

WRENN ID
tired-storey-onyx
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
House
Address
Buckley House 4, Little Britain, City and County of the City of London, EC1A 7BX
OS grid reference
TQ 320 815
Coordinates
51.5171, -0.098
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Buckley House, at number 4 Little Britain, is a five-story building constructed in 1858, possibly by T Young and Son. It has four windows and is built of red brick and stone. The ground floor features a painted arcade with three detached colonnettes, and the keystones alternate between plain and mask designs. The upper stories are also arcaded, with carved capitals to the detached shafts. A large cornice tops the building, supported by brackets.

Local climate

Buckley House 4, Little Britain 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 — 61 transactions since 1996
  • Related listed building consents — 1 application
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  • 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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