Cockpit Steps (Next to Number 38) with Flank Walls and Mounted Lanterns is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Steps. 4 related planning applications.

Cockpit Steps (Next to Number 38) with Flank Walls and Mounted Lanterns

WRENN ID
deep-doorway-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Westminster
Constituency
Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
5 February 1970
Type
Steps
Address
Cockpit Steps (Next to Number 38) with Flank Walls and Mounted Lanterns, Old Queen Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1H 9HP
OS grid reference
TQ 297 796
Coordinates
51.50085, -0.13168
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

These steps form a passageway between Old Queen Street and St James’s Park. They date from the late 17th century and are associated with the former Royal Cockpit, which was demolished in 1810. The steps were rebuilt in 1964 as part of the reconstruction of numbers 36 and 38 Old Queen Street. They consist of granite steps with flank walls made of red, multi-coloured brick. The steps form a curved flight. A Windsor lantern is mounted on a scrolled bracket on the west side of the flank wall.

Local climate

Cockpit Steps (Next to Number 38) with Flank Walls and Mounted Lanterns 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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