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Latitude: 51.5054 / 51°30'19"N
Longitude: -0.1461 / 0°8'45"W
OS Eastings: 528766
OS Northings: 180125
OS Grid: TQ287801
Mapcode National: GBR CG.CJ
Mapcode Global: VHGQZ.FF49
Plus Code: 9C3XGV43+5H
Entry Name: 101-104, Piccadilly W1
Listing Date: 5 February 1972
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1265714
English Heritage Legacy ID: 424200
Also known as: Embassy of Japan in the UK
ID on this website: 101265714
Location: Mayfair, Westminster, London, W1J
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: West End
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St George, Hanover Square
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Embassy
TQ 2880 SE
80/115
CITY OF WESTMINSTER
PICCADILLY W1 (north side)
Nos 101 to 104 consec.
GV
II
Large former Club premises. 1890 by Colonel Edis for the Junior Constitutional Club. White marble and Portland stone, slate roof. Free Italian and Flemish Renaissance detailing. 4 storeys, high basement and 2 attic storeys. Broad 5 window symmetrical front. Doric order to ground floor with pairs of polished granite columns flanking windows and central entrance up steps. Upper floors have flanking and central 2 storey canted bay windows with carved decoration. Arcaded and balustraded windows to 1st and 2nd floors and paired windows to 3rd floor. Enriched cornices and 3 ornamental gables, with 2 storeys of attic windows, and double stone dormers breaking balustraded parapet with altered dormers above. High balustrade to area surmounted by 6 cast iron lamp standards.
Apparently the first building in London to be entirely faced in marble.
Listing NGR: TQ2876180123
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