Harness House is a Grade II listed building in the Peterborough local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1955. House.

Harness House

WRENN ID
iron-shingle-primrose
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Peterborough
Constituency
North West Cambridgeshire MP: Sam Carling (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1955
Type
House
Address
Harness House, Castor, City of Peterborough
OS grid reference
TL 145 998
Coordinates
52.58437, -0.3105
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

Harness House is a late 18th-century harness-house located at the center of a stable courtyard. The building is octagonal in shape and constructed from dressed stone with flush quoins. It features a pyramidal slate roof and stands two storeys tall. There is a string course at the first floor level, and the windows are sashes with glazing bars set beneath flat stone arches. The entrance includes a fielded panel door topped by a rectangular fanlight.

Local climate

Harness House sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 89% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 88% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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