ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB

ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB, 128, PICCADILLY W1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265671
Date first listed:: 02-Jul-1969
List Entry Name:: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB
Statutory Address:: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB, 128, PICCADILLY W1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1265671
Date first listed:: 02-Jul-1969
List Entry Name:: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB, 128, PICCADILLY W1

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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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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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Location

Statutory Address:: ROYAL AIR FORCE CLUB, 128, PICCADILLY W1

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 28598 79986

Details

TQ 2880 SE 2879 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY Wl (north side) 80/121; 89/3 No 128 (RAF Club) 2.7.69 GV II Originally forming, with western portion of 127 (qv) three private Mansions. 1888 by Aldophus Croft for Gillow and Co. Portland stone faced with ornate enrichment in vaguely Italianate manner. 4 Storeys, basement and slated dormered mansard. Rusticated ground floor with doorways each end with inset Doric columns of polished pink granite. Windows in architrave surrounds with cornices on 1st floor and 2 elaborately modelled 3 storey canted bays of 3 windows each floor. String courses, deeply moulded projecting cornice. Carved RAF emblem in centre of top storey. Stone balustraded area.

Listing NGR: TQ2859879986

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Legacy System number:: 424294
Legacy System:: LBS

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.