13, Buckingham Street WC2 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 February 1958. Town house. 19 related planning applications.
13, Buckingham Street WC2
- WRENN ID
- nether-shingle-merlin
- 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
- Address
- 13, Buckingham Street WC2, City of Westminster, WC2N 6DF
- OS grid reference
- TQ 303 804
- Coordinates
- 51.50818, -0.12329
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 13 Buckingham Street is a terraced town house built around 1675-76, which was rebuilt after a fire in 1684 and underwent late 18th-century alterations. It is part of Barbon's York House estate development. The house is constructed of brown brick with a slate roof, featuring four storeys (the top floor was rebuilt in the late 18th century with a parapet) and a basement. It is three windows wide. The doorway is located to the right and includes a panelled door with a fan-patterned semicircular fanlight, set within a later 18th-century wooden doorcase that has three-quarter fluted Doric pilasters, an entablature with a swag, roundel, carved head frieze, and a bracketed cornice. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. There is a plat band above the second floor and a parapet with coping. The cast iron area railings feature urn finials. Inside, the house has late 18th-century plain mouldings and a geometrical, narrow, open well staircase, among other features.
Local climate
13, 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 — 19 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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