Brook's Club (South of Number 60)
BROOK'S CLUB (SOUTH OF NUMBER 60), ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264849
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Brook's Club (South of Number 60)
- Statutory Address:
- BROOK'S CLUB (SOUTH OF NUMBER 60), ST JAMES'S STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1264849
- Date first listed:
- 24-Feb-1958
- List Entry Name:
- Brook's Club (South of Number 60)
- Statutory Address 1:
- BROOK'S CLUB (SOUTH OF NUMBER 60), 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.
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:
- BROOK'S CLUB (SOUTH OF NUMBER 60), 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 29193 80272
Details
TQ 2980 SW
81/113
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
ST. JAMES'S STREET SW1 (West side)
Brook's Club (South of No 60)
24-2-58
GV
I
Gentlemen's Club, 1778 by Henry Holland; his first major commission. Fine white Suffolk brick with stone dressings, slate roof. Restrained neo-Classical design of the Chambers school.
Three storeys and basement. Five bay front with podium, ground floor having off-centre doorway with stone architrave and cornice, plainly recessed glazing bar sashes under flat gauged arches. Plat band over ground floor from which rises a two storey giant stone order of Corinthian pilasters, coupled to corners, articulating the window bays and supporting an entablature with delicate frieze, dentilled and bracketed cornice, the centre three bays pedimented with oval relief in tympanum and flanking, balustraded parapet with urns. The first floor windows have alternating segmental and triangular pediments. Three window return to Park Place has similar pilaster and cornice treatment with pedimented first floor window flanked by Venetian windows to end bays. Extension to left, 1889, in plainer manner with rectangular bay windows, by MacVicar Anderson. Good cast iron area railings. Rear of original block has two full height bows.
Interior has remodelled staircase under glass dome and two very fine upper rooms; the Subscription Room with carved ceiling, one of the side Venetian windows and restrained, severely simplified elegant decoration by comparison with Adam work of same date. The adjoining Venetian windowed room shows equal restraint and the centre of rear wall is apsed. Behind one of the rear bows there is a circular room on each floor.
Survey of London; vol XXX
Listing NGR: TQ2919380272
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426767
- 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. 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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