115, Harley Street W1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. A Georgian Townhouse. 11 related planning applications.
115, Harley Street W1
- WRENN ID
- western-railing-bittern
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Townhouse
- Period
- Georgian
- Address
- 115, Harley Street W1, City of Westminster, W1G 6AP
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 819
- Coordinates
- 51.5215, -0.14835
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 115 Harley Street is a terraced town house built around 1777 as part of the Portland Estate development, likely designed by John White in collaboration with the plasterer Thomas Collins, who were associates of Sir William Chambers. The building features stock brick construction with a channelled stucco ground floor and a slate roof. It has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard, with three windows across the front.
The entrance is marked by a broad semicircular arched doorway to the left, framed in Coade stone with a vermiculated surround and a head keystone. The door has panelled side lights with entablatures, a recessed doorhead, and is topped by a fanlight, creating a Venetian window effect. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches, with a plat band on the first floor. The parapet is topped with coping, and there is a cast iron bombé balcony from around 1840 across the first floor, along with cast iron area railings featuring plumbed spike finials.
Inside, the house boasts a fine interior typical of high-quality speculative houses from the 1770s on Harley Street, with enhancements above the usual standards. It includes an arched hallway and a top-lit stone geometrical staircase with a lyre-scroll wrought iron balustrade and a skylight drum adorned with swag ornamentation. The plasterwork features friezes and ceilings decorated with flute, patera, wreath, and garland motifs. There are stucco mythological relief medallions, reminiscent of Chambers' style, framed by garlands above principal inlaid statuary marble chimneypieces, along with enriched shutter panels and mahogany doors.
Local climate
115, Harley Street W1 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 11 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- 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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