Pinner House

Pinner House is a brick building decorated with pilasters.^[1] The façade was built in 1721, but the rest of the house dates from earlier that century.^[2] It was one of several mansions built in Pinner, and is one of only two such buildings to survive, the other being Pinner Hill.^[3] The rear of Pinner House was extended in 1977 using materials similar to the original construction. The building is located on Church Lane, near to St John the Baptist church.^[1]

The building was designated Grade II* listed on 21 September 1951.^[4] A plaque to commemorate the building was placed outside it by Harrow Heritage Trust in 2001.^[2]

During the mid-19th century the building was used as a school for children, called Pinner House Academy.^[5] It was sold by auction in 1829 with the usage suggested as a family home.^[6] It was sold once again in 1911.^[7] During the First World War, Pinner House was owned by Mr and Mrs George Neal, whose eldest son was killed in action on the Western Front on 15 June 1915.^[8] It was sold again in 1920.^[9] It remained as a family home, and was owned by Mr and Mrs George Glanfield at least between 1924 and 1938.^[10] Glanfield was a wholesale clothier, and owned the company G. Glanfield and Son, which held the contract for clothing the British Army during World War I.^[11] He died in 1938,^[12] and the building has been used as an old people's home since that period, but has been sold at least once in that usage.^[3][13]