17, Buckingham Street WC2

No. 17 Buckingham Street is a terraced town house built between 1675 and 1676, with early 18th-century remodelling. It is part of Barbon's development of the York House estate. The house is constructed of brown brick with a concealed roof and has four storeys plus a basement. The facade is three windows wide, with a narrow half window to the left.

The entrance is to the right and features a panelled door with a rectangular diamond pattern fanlight, all framed by an original wooden doorcase. This doorcase includes a narrow architrave, flanking fluted Corinthian pilasters with dosserets, and an architrave moulding that extends across the frieze and sweeps up to a point in the centre. The cornice breaks forward over the dosserets and is topped with a deeply moulded segmental pediment. The windows are glazing bar sashes set in nearly flush frames, placed under segmental red brick arches with red brick dressings that run up the entire facade. There is a gauged brick plat band over the ground floor and a moulded brick cornice with dentils above the second floor, along with a parapet featuring coping. The property is enclosed by cast iron area railings with urn finials, and the elevation is particularly well preserved.

Inside, despite some alterations, the house retains several notable features. It has a standard two-room deep plan with a rear closet wing and flanking hall and staircase. The passage hall includes bolection panelling and a deep cornice. There is a panelled pilaster elliptical archway from the hall to the stair compartment, and the dog leg staircase, which may have been modified in the mid-18th century, features a cut string with shaped brackets, two turned balusters per tread, columnar newels, and a scrolled foot. The back rooms on the ground and first floors maintain bolection panelling accented by thin pilasters and moulded box cornices. The front room on the first floor, which has a later partition, retains a panelled ceiling with acanthus leaf ribs and a fine mid-18th-century carved Rococo chimneypiece. The rear room on the first floor includes a corner fireplace with a festooned overmantel.