The Athenaeum
THE ATHENAEUM, 107, PALL MALL SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1225842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Athenaeum
- Statutory Address:
- THE ATHENAEUM, 107, PALL MALL SW1
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- Reference:
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1225842
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- The Athenaeum
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ATHENAEUM, 107, PALL MALL SW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- THE ATHENAEUM, WATERLOO PLACE 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 ATHENAEUM, 107, PALL MALL SW1
- Statutory Address:
- THE ATHENAEUM, WATERLOO PLACE 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 29688 80305
Details
TQ 2980 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PALL MALL, SW1 82/62 (south side) No. 107: The Athenaeum 5.2.70 G.V. I Gentlemen's Club. 1826-30 by Decimus Burton for this famous club for "scientific and literary men and Artists" initiated by Croker. Stucco faced, concealed roof. Highly accomplished Graeco-Roman design balancing Nash's former United Services Club. 2 principal storeys and unobtrusive set back attic storey (added by T.E. Colcutt 1899-1900) , basement. 7-window wide entrance front to Waterloo Place, 5-window wide elevations to Pall Mall and garden. Smooth rusticated ground floor has central tetrastyle Roman Doric portico to Waterloo Place with coupled columns and terminal antae on pedestals with steps between them; ground floor plate glass sashes in architraves with plain margins, recessed for one order with voussoired flat arches. 1st floor windows are French casements in architraves with flanking panelled strips and acanthus consoles carrying cornices. The alternative triglyphs of the Doric entablature over the ground floor are ingeniously developed as brackets supporting the 1st floor cornice-balcony with slender cast iron Grecian baluster rails and corner pedestals bearing tripod lamps; stone balustrade over portico, the centre bay solid and surmounted by pedestalled gilt statue of Athene carved by E.H. Baily. A particular feature of the design is John Henning junior's version of the Panathenaic frieze, carved in Bath stone now painted a la Wedgwood, which together with the enriched cornice and balustraded parapet grandly finishes off the "piano nobile". Panelled stone parapet to the area of 1894. Very distinguished interior with basilican entrance hall, the "nave" tunnel vaulted and original light fittings between the Grecian columns, redecorated by Alma Tadema; grand club staircase rises straight out of the hall in one flight to split into two and returns to 1st floor landing over the hall's tunnel vault, lit by octagonal dome - the upper part of intermediate landing wall treated as pseudo-portico with gilded plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere; morning room and coffee room suitably Grecian and great tripartite drawingroam behind garden front on 1st floor; main library with gallery and spiral staircase of 1856 by Burton, etc. Survey of London; Vol. XXIX.
Listing NGR: TQ2968880301
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 422826
- 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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