21, Buckingham Street WC2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Terrace house.
21, Buckingham Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- ghost-latch-evening
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Terrace house
- Address
- 21, Buckingham Street WC2, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50863, -0.1236
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 21 Buckingham Street is a terrace house built around 1700, with a front added around 1800. It is made of stock brick and has a slate roof. The building has four storeys and a basement, and it is two windows wide. The doorway is located to the right and features a stucco surround with a cornice supported by console brackets, a panelled door, and a patterned fanlight above. The recessed sash windows are set under flat gauged arches. The building has a parapet with coping and cast iron area railings topped with urn finials. Inside, there are notable late 17th-century features, including panelling, moulded cornices, and a closed, moulded string staircase with spiral balusters and twin-baluster newels.
Local climate
21, 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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