Speech Room (Harrow School) is a Grade II* listed building in the Harrow local planning authority area, England. First listed on 9 July 1968. School. 2 related planning applications.

Speech Room (Harrow School)

WRENN ID
endless-transept-russet
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Harrow
Constituency
Harrow West MP: Gareth Thomas (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
9 July 1968
Type
School
Address
Speech Room (Harrow School), Grove Hill, HA1 3HQ
OS grid reference
TQ 153 874
Coordinates
51.57385, -0.33662
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Speech Room at Harrow School was built between 1872 and 1877 by William Burges in a Neo-medieval style. It is constructed of red brick and has a D-plan layout, featuring corner towers added in 1919 and 1925, one of which includes a statue of Elizabeth I from Ashridge Park. The interior features a hall with banked seating arranged in a semi-circle, a shallow internal wooden dome supported by cast-iron columns and hidden metal trusses. The building was not completed according to Burges's original design.

Local climate

Speech Room (Harrow School) 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 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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