THE NATIONAL CLUB

THE NATIONAL CLUB, KILBURN HIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379255
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: THE NATIONAL CLUB
Statutory Address:: THE NATIONAL CLUB, KILBURN HIGH ROAD

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1379255
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1991
List Entry Name:: THE NATIONAL CLUB
Statutory Address 1:: THE NATIONAL CLUB, KILBURN HIGH ROAD

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

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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:: THE NATIONAL CLUB, KILBURN HIGH ROAD

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: Camden (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 25039 84172

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TQ2584SW KILBURN HIGH ROAD 798-1/58/990 (East side) 05/02/91 The National Club

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Formerly known as: The Grange Cinema KILBURN HIGH ROAD. Former cinema, now club premises. 1914. By Edward A Stone. Stucco, channelled to ground floor. Red and plum coloured brick returns and rear. Slate mansard roof with terracotta cresting; green copper dome surmounted by lantern with cupola above entrance bays. PLAN: rectangular plan on island site. EXTERIOR: 2 storeys. 8 bays to main road plus 3 bay canted corner with main entrance to right. Various doorways to ground floor. Entablature with projecting cornice at 1st floor level. 1st floor entrance bays with round-arched windows having margin glazing with stained glass and keystones flanked by channelled pilasters supporting a projecting cornice and parapet with recessed panels. Symmetrical 1st floor facade to main road with five 5-light windows with patterned glazing bars and stained glass flanked by channelled pilasters supporting a parapet. Centre bay slightly projecting with stepped pediment having an enriched plaque inscribed "The Grange". Each end bay with shallow round-arched niche containing a blind rectangular panel and panel inscribed "The Grange Cinema"; keystone and stepped pediment with festoons. Right hand return of plum coloured brick with red brick quoins and 6 pilasters rising through 1st and 2nd floors to support a red brick entablature at 3rd floor level; 3rd floor central attic of 4 pilasters with pediment flanked by parapet. Rear and left hand return in similar style but plainer. INTERIOR: dramatic, double-height, top-lit foyer with Adam style enrichment; Ionic columns support, on large console brackets, an oval balustrade to the 1st floor lit by stained glass windows and mirrors flanked by enriched pilasters carrying ribs to central oval blind lantern. 1st floor, gained by wide stair, with ornate panelling and plasterwork and some good 1930s light fittings to circulation areas. Massive auditorium with U-shaped balcony on enriched pillars providing enriched plaster arcade to ground floor. Coved, enriched, panelled plasterwork ceiling with intricate detailing on beams and circular air vents. To either side, balconies arcaded. Proscenium arch flanked by large enriched pilasters; widened by MK Matthews, 1927. Seating now removed and side balconies partly masked by bar partitioning.

HISTORICAL NOTE: designed to seat 2,310, The Grange was the largest cinema in Europe when constructed and one of very few surviving examples nationally that display cinema design at its point of departure from theatre planning.

Listing NGR: TQ2503984172

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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.