62, Harley Street W1

No. 62 Harley Street is a Grade II listed corner terraced town house built around 1773 as part of the Portland Estate development, possibly designed by John White in collaboration with the plasterer Thomas Collins. The building was altered and refaced on the front and side around 1900. It features a Portland stone facade with a channelled ground floor and a slate roof. The structure has four storeys, including an attic, and is built over a basement. It is three windows wide and has an irregular return to New Cavendish Street, along with a projecting single-storey rear wing.

The front on Harley Street includes a projecting doorway on the left, framed by an architrave that has a fluted panel above the door and a cornice hood supported by console brackets. The windows are recessed sashes within architraves, with the first-floor windows adorned with alternating triangular and segmental pediments on consoles, and projecting sills with iron guards on corbel brackets. The first and second-floor windows are linked by plain apron panels and panels situated between the second-floor window heads and the main cornice.

On the flank return to New Cavendish Street, there are slightly projecting chimney breasts with corniced stacks and two ranges of sash windows at the far end, which also have cornices above on the first floor. The channelling on the ground floor extends up to the first-floor sill course. A bracketed main cornice is present over the second floor, along with a cornice and blocking course, and there are cast iron area railings with artichoke finials.

Inside, the building retains an original elegant geometrical stone staircase with a wrought iron balustrade and plasterwork details, which were elaborated and enhanced in a neo-Adam style during the time of the refacing.