Built / Designed For: 1st Viscount Harcourt
House & Family History: The interior Athenian Stuart executed at Harcourt House was his first London commission (predating his more famous interiors at Spencer House) and an important early Greek style Neoclassical work. Compared to the Harcourt House at the opposite end of Cavendish Square (aka Bingley House, or 19 Cavendish Square), this was an earlier, smaller house that sat on the east side (at No. 1) of the square. The house was mostly demolished in the 1930s; the remaining Grade II-listed fragment of the house, today called Flanders House, has been home to Flemish delegation of the Belgian Embassy since 2003.
Architect: Francis Smith
Date: 1722-26Architect: Edward Wilcox
Date: 1721Architect: Thomas Archer
Date: 1720
Title: Great Houses of London, The
Author: Pearce, David
Year Published: 1986
Reference: pg. 124
Publisher: New York: The Vendome Press
ISBN: 0865650632
Book Type: Hardback
House Listed: Grade II
Park Listed: Not Listed
Past Seat / Home of: Simon Harcourt, 1st Viscount Harcourt, early 18th century; Simon Harcourt, 1st Earl Harcourt, mid-18th century. Sir Claude Scott, 19th century.
Current Ownership Type: Corporation
Primary Current Ownership Use: Offices
House Open to Public: No
Historic Houses Member: No