22, Buckingham Street WC2 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 18 June 1986. House, office. 3 related planning applications.
22, Buckingham Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- quiet-gargoyle-amber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 18 June 1986
- Type
- House, office
- Address
- 22, Buckingham Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 6ET
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50867, -0.12368
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No 22 Buckingham Street is a corner house and office built around 1860 by architect R P Pullan. The building is constructed of stock brick, with stucco and red brick dressings, and features a slate roof. It showcases Italian medieval details in a High Victorian style. The structure has four storeys and a basement, with three major bays on both street fronts.
The ground floor is finished in stucco and includes a prominent gabled porch supported by shafts with capitals adorned with lush foliage, positioned off-center to the right. The windows exhibit varied designs, featuring segmental arched recessed sashes on the ground floor, while the upper floors have semi-circular arched windows highlighted by bright red brick dressings. There are three such windows on the first floor, six closely set on the second floor as if forming an arcade, and three pairs on the third floor. These windows are framed by pilasters with foliate caps, and the second-floor windows have bracketed projecting sills.
The building also features band courses between the storeys and a polychrome tile frieze situated between the brackets of the projecting eaves cornice. It shares identical architectural features with buildings on John Adam Street. Historically, No 22 was used as an office by William Surges, who was Pullan's brother-in-law.
Local climate
22, Buckingham Street WC2 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- 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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