Devonshire Club

DEVONSHIRE CLUB, 50, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1235890
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
Devonshire Club
Statutory Address:
DEVONSHIRE CLUB, 50, ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1235890
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
Devonshire Club
Statutory Address 1:
DEVONSHIRE CLUB, 50, ST JAMES'S STREET 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.

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Corrections and minor amendments

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.

Understanding list entries

Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
DEVONSHIRE CLUB, 50, ST JAMES'S STREET 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 29142 80356

Details

TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ST. JAMES'S STREET SW1 81/112 (West side) No 50 (Devonshire Club) 5.2.70 GV II Gentlemen's Club. 1827 by Benjamin D. Wyatt and Philip Wyatt, altered 1870-75 by C. J. Phipps; originally Crockford's. Portland stone with rusticated ground floor and quoins. Augustan classicism. 3 storeys and basement. 5 windows wide. Central columned entrance with side windows and canted bay windows flanking each end of ground floor. 3 window centrepiece on upper floors articulated by engaged giant order of Corinthian columns, rising to main entablature, the 1st floor windows of centrepiece with segmental pediments whilst the flanking bays have tripartite Corinthian columned windows under triangular pediments. The main crowning entablature has dentil and modillion cornice and balustraded parapet capped with urns; enriched 2nd floor sill band. Stone balustraded wall to area and stone balustrades to 1st floor windows. Grand club interior with top lit staircase with oval dome. Crockford's was the first club to initiate the transition from neoclassical to French Rococo-inspired decoration and the dining room chimneypiece is a surviving example of Wyatt's original interior in this style; the decoration is otherwise principally of the 1870s in French and Italian taste. Survey of London; vol XXX The Devonshire Club and 'Crockford's' ; H. R.Waddy,1919

Listing NGR: TQ2914280356

Legacy

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Legacy System number:
426725
Legacy System:
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Sources

Books and journals
Waddy, H R, The Devonshire Club and Crockfords, (1919)
Survey of London in The Parish of St James Westminster Part 1 South of Piccadilly: Volumes 29 and 30, Vol. 30, (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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