91, Harley Street W1 is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Terraced house. 2 related planning applications.
91, Harley Street W1
- WRENN ID
- fallen-jamb-swift
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 91, Harley Street W1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 286 817
- Coordinates
- 51.5204, -0.14784
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 91 is a corner terraced house located on Harley Street, built around 1774-1776 and altered in the mid-19th century. It was part of the Portland Estate development by John White in collaboration with the plasterer Thomas Collins, who were associates of Sir William Chambers. The building is constructed of stock brick with a heavily rusticated stucco ground floor and features a slate roof. It has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard. The façade is four windows wide, with a three-window return to Weymouth Street, two of which are blind.
The entrance is a semicircular arched doorway on the left, framed by a rusticated and vermiculated surround, featuring a panelled door, sidelights, and a fanlight. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches, with stucco keystones on the third floor. Additional architectural details include a first-floor plat band and sill band, a plat band on the second floor with a block bracketed cornice above it, a sill course on the third floor, and a stone-coped parapet. The return side has similar details, with a mid-19th century stucco bow window added to the ground floor and a chimney stack that rises from the parapet.
A cast iron balcony from the mid-19th century spans the first floor on brackets, and there are cast iron plumbed spike area railings. The interior retains some features of the typical plasterwork associated with White and Collins, as well as a top-lit geometrical stone staircase with a later iron balustrade.
Local climate
91, 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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- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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