The Reform Club
THE REFORM CLUB, 104, PALL MALL SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1225841
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Reform Club
- Statutory Address:
- THE REFORM CLUB, 104, PALL MALL SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1225841
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Reform Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE REFORM CLUB, 104, PALL MALL SW1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE REFORM CLUB, 104, PALL MALL SW1
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- City of Westminster (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 29636 80277
Details
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1 82/66 (south side) 5.2.70 No. 104: The Reform Club G.V. I Gentlemen's Club, 1837-41 by Charles Barry. Portland stone ashlar, with rusticated quoins, low pitched tiled roof. The mature accomplishment of Barry's palazzo style first introduced by him at the Travellers' Club next door. 2 main storeys and attic storey, on podium-basement. 9 windows wide with 8-window west return and garden elevation repeating entrance front. Central entrance, approached by flight of steps, has tall, Peruzzi-inspired Roman doorway with eared architrave and carved jambs, rich double consoles supporting dentilled and modillioned cornice-hood. Recessed original casement windows, those on ground floor in architraves rising from pedestal-course with console-flanked apron panels below and consoled cornices above; the 1st floor windows treated as Ionic columned and pedimented aedicules also rising from pedestal-course with shallow, console bracketed balustered balconettes, their bases as forward breaks in the ground floor cornice; architraved attic casements with sills breaking from sill course; the whole front finished off with a finely carved great Roman eaves cornice carried all the way round. Tall panelled chimney stacks with bracketed cornices. Stone balustrade to area raised on rusticated plinth with 2 iron lampstandards surmounting the dies flanking steps. To left is a slightly recessed 2 storey, 1-window wide extension with rusticated semicircular arched doorway and 1st floor balustrade to set back 1st floor. The grand club interior also conceived in the Italian manner, organised about a central almost square saloon "cortile" with coved glazed roof, the ambulatories on both floors screened by a 2 storey peristyle with Corinthian yellow marble columns above Ionic ground floor ones; Italian Renaissance staircase rising between solid walls to return in 2 flights; magnificent library behind the garden front divided into 3 sections by columns; morning room with half-size copy of the Parthenon frieze; splendidly rich colour scheme; much of original furniture as designed by Barry etc. (Loose items of furniture not covered by listing.) Following the Travellers' Club, a most influential design. Survey of London; Vol. XXIX.
Listing NGR: TQ2963780274
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422824
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, Vol. 29, (1960)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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