11, Buckingham Street WC2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. A Georgian Town house. 1 related planning application.
11, Buckingham Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- broken-turret-elm
- 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
- Town house
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 11, Buckingham Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 6DF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50833, -0.12353
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 11 Buckingham Street is a terraced town house built around 1675, with some early 19th-century alterations. It is part of Barbon's development of the York House estate. The building has a stucco facade, with the original brown brick exposed at the rear, and features a slate roof. It stands three storeys high, with a basement and a dormered attic, and has six windows across its front.
The entrance is located in the third bay from the left and features a recessed panelled door with a fanlight, framed by an early 19th-century stucco pilaster surround that includes an entablature and blocking course. The windows are slightly recessed sashes with exposed box frames, and the flat arches above them are adorned with carved head and lion mask key blocks. The building also has rusticated quoin pilasters and plat bands over each floor that run across the key blocks. A parapet, which is panelled in line with the windows, is topped with moulded coping. At the rear, there are flush framed glazing bar sashes set under flat gauged brick arches. The property is enclosed by wrought iron area railings topped with urn finials.
Inside, the house retains several original and late 18th-century features. The hall and the front and rear rooms on the first floor have bolection panelling. The two front rooms feature shallow, geometrically patterned plasterwork ceilings and friezes in the Adam style, with the north room showcasing a carved wood chimneypiece set in a coved recess between a small secondary staircase and a cupboard. The south first-floor rear room has an overmantel that is carved in light relief. The main staircase has a narrow open well, with turned balusters and carved cut strings on the lower flights, and closed moulded strings on the upper flights, along with a panelled dado.
Local climate
11, 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.
More on this building
Sign in or create a free account to unlock:
- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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
Matched applications, energy data and sale records are assembled automatically and may contain errors. Flag incorrect data.
Similar buildings
The closest matches to this building from all 493,000 UK listed buildings, by architecture, period and materials.
this building 1 similar nearby listed buildings