Harrington House is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 January 1970. Town mansion. 1 related planning application.
Harrington House
- WRENN ID
- stranded-steel-kestrel
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 9 January 1970
- Type
- Town mansion
- Address
- Harrington House, Craig's Court Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 2DB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 301 803
- Coordinates
- 51.50681, -0.12643
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Harrington House is a town mansion built around 1692, with an attic heightening in the 1950s and various interior alterations. It features a brown brick exterior with stone dressings and red brick window dressings, topped by a slate roof. The building stands three storeys tall, with a basement and a dormered mansard roof, and is seven windows wide. The three central bays are advanced and have stone quoining, with an additional half-window bay to the left.
The entrance porch, which is likely from around 1720, has Ionic columns and a balustrade above that enhances the central first-floor window. The windows are flush framed glazing bar sashes set under flat red brick gauged arches, with the central bay windows featuring stone architraves. Stone plat bands separate the storeys, and there is a stone block bracketed cornice topped with a balustraded parapet.
Although the interior has been altered, it still retains some original features such as cornices and panelling. Notably, there is a fine open well, cut string staircase from around 1720, which has carved bracket tread ends, three slender twisted balusters per tread, and a ramped handrail that sweeps to a curtail with columnar newels. Harrington House is the only remaining part of the original group of houses in Craig's Court, which was laid out around 1695.
Local climate
Harrington House 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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- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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- 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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