20, Buckingham Street WC2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Terrace house. 12 related planning applications.
20, Buckingham Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- empty-soffit-bone
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 February 1958
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 20, Buckingham Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 6EF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 805
- Coordinates
- 51.5086, -0.12352
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 20 Buckingham Street is a terrace house built around 1675, with alterations and heightening from the late 18th to early 19th century. The building features brown brick with red brick dressings and a stuccoed ground floor. It has four storeys and a basement, with a three-window-wide facade. To the right, there is a semicircular arched doorway dating from around 1800, which has pilaster jambs and a patterned radial fanlight. The recessed sash windows are set under flat gauged arches. There are plat bands between the storeys, with the first-floor band made of stone and the others in brick. The building has a parapet with coping and cast iron area railings topped with urn finials. Inside, the first floor and hall retain original panelling, featuring an arched opening to the openwell, a cut string staircase with square balusters, and a closet wing.
Local climate
20, 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
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2023
- Related listed building consents — 12 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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