Description

TQ 2880 SE 2879 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PICCADILLY Wl
(north side)
80/120; 89/2 No 127 (The Cavalry
Club)
3.7.69
GV II*
Town mansion 1888. Designed by Adolphus Croft for Gillow and Co (with 128, qv).
Extension to right and more alterations by Mewes and Davis for Cavalry Club in
1908. Portland stone, slate roof. 4 storeys, basement and dormered mansard.
9 windows wide and additional bay to right. Rusticated ground floor with central
Doric portico of 4 polished pink granite columns on pedestals and flight of steps;
2 flanking canted large bay windows. 1st floor windows in Gibbs surrounds with
pediments. Upper floors have architraved windows with cornices and pediments.
Modillion bracket crowning cornice and balustraded parapet on high blocking course,
pierced with arched openings for each dormer window. The interior retains a few
late C18 features, viz some of the wrought iron balustrading to the staircase and
2 chimney pieces in the Kent manner to the rear ground floor room etc,

Listing NGR: TQ2861880003

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Cavalry and Guards Club at Wikipedia
• Wikidata Q5054822

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Pevsner's Architectural Glossary (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Introductions)
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  Northamptonshire: Buildings of England Series (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Oxfordshire: North and West (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  The Listed Buildings and Other Principal Structures at the Royal Gunpowder Mills Waltham Abbey
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  Listed Buildings: The Law and Practice of History Buildings, Ancient Monuments and Conservation Areas