Harlington Manor

Harlington Manor is a house dating back to the 16th century, with significant alterations and extensions in the 17th and 19th centuries, and a 1937 addition designed by Sir Albert Richardson. It formerly belonged to the Wingate family, who included Edmund Wingate, a 17th-century mathematician and tutor to Queen Henrietta Maria. The exterior is colourwashed plaster render with incised banded rustication on the front elevation. The roofs are covered in clay tiles. The house has a complex plan, with a central two-story block flanked by slightly projecting two-story gables. The rear elevation features two projecting gables – one two-story and the other with attics – alongside a 19th-century two-story service wing projecting from the right-hand side. A further two-story and attics block projects from the north elevation as part of the 1937 addition.

The front elevation has a 1:3:1 arrangement of sash windows with mullions and transoms, incorporating leaded lights, with flat heads and heavy voussoirs in moulded render. The ground floor central block windows have been replaced with 19th-century French windows, which are framed by colourwashed brick. A modillion cornice runs along the eaves. The rear elevation shows a variety of window types, including some casements with leaded lights, a round-arched sash window illuminating the staircase, and cast iron latticework full-length windows in the left-hand gable. A part-glazed door is situated in the right-hand gable. The main block features a substantial red brick ridge stack with four linked diagonal shafts. The north cross-wing has two substantial external stacks – each of three stages – on its north elevation; these have a coursed ironstone ground stage and red brick upper stages, and flank Richardson’s projecting block.

Inside the north cross-wing, the ground floor rooms are lined with early 17th-century oak panelling, with the rear room featuring reeded Ionic pilasters, a dentil cornice, and more ornate panelling above the fireplace. This room also retains moulded spine and cross-beams with a foliate boss, alongside a moulded stone four-centred arched fire surround. Simpler 17th-century panelling remains throughout the first floor. A staircase from the 18th century is constructed of pine, and features turned balusters and a panelled dado.