The Eccentric Club
THE ECCENTRIC CLUB, 9-15, RYDER STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265094
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Eccentric Club
- Statutory Address:
- THE ECCENTRIC CLUB, 9-15, RYDER STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II
- List Entry Number:
- 1265094
- Date first listed:
- 01-Dec-1987
- List Entry Name:
- The Eccentric Club
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE ECCENTRIC CLUB, 9-15, RYDER 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:
- THE ECCENTRIC CLUB, 9-15, RYDER 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 29320 80309
Details
TQ 2980 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER RYDER STREET SW1 81/91 Nos 9 to 15 (odd) (The Eccentric Club) II Built as chambers, opened as hotel and now a Club. 1864 by John Norton. Red brick with blue brick and tile polychrome dressings and banding and terracotta trim. Unusual brick "Lombard" Romanesque-Gothic style for the West End. 4 storeys. 6 bays wide, the eastern end an extension of 1900 in matching style. 2 windows and doorway with round arches on granite columns flanked by broad segmental arched club entrande to right (with c. 1900 canopy) and carriage arch to left,both with shafted jambs. The 1st and 2nd floors have semicircular arched windows with blue bricks patterning the impost bands, the arches and the spandrels. The 3rd attic floor has small pairs of round arched windows with shafted jambs and terracotta imposts. Heavy quatrefoil pierced painted terracotta balcony across 1st floor and similarly pierced individual balconies on heavy brackets to 2nd floor. Narrow coursing bands of coloured tiles between storeys, the top floor with a "pedestal" of diapering; corbelled cornice below parapet. The carriage way has always provided access to the rear of Christie's King Street Auction Rooms. Survey of London; volXXXIX
Listing NGR: TQ2932080309
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 426073
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Survey of London in The Grosvenor Estate in Mayfair Part 1: Volume 39 , Vol. 39, (1977)
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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