Craig's Court

The Court is entered through a narrow single-track road in which the carriage of the Speaker of the House of Commons once got stuck and which is often overlooked by tourists.

Former residents include the memoirist Teresia Constantia Phillips (1748–49) and the painter George Romney in the 1760s, but the only remaining original building is Harrington House.

[7] On the north side of the entrance is part of the South African High Commission,[8] Walkers of Whitehall public house,[9] and a telephone exchange that replaced numbers 1 and 2.

It remained in the descent of the Craig family until 1809 and had a succession of mostly aristocratic tenants who occupied the house because it was convenient for Whitehall and their positions in the British government.

[16] The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 caused a further increase in business and the firm acquired more office space in the Court and adjacent streets, its clerks working day and night shifts, and numbering 4,500 by 1918, but the end of the war brought a rapid decline and the sale of the business in 1923 to Lloyds Bank.