The Constitutional Club is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Club. 13 related planning applications.
The Constitutional Club
- WRENN ID
- buried-basalt-torch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Club
- Address
- The Constitutional Club, 86, St James's Street Sw1, City of Westminster, SW1A 1PL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 292 801
- Coordinates
- 51.50524, -0.13841
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Constitutional Club is a gentlemen's club built in 1862 by James Knowles, junior, originally for the Thatched House Club, later known as the Civil Service Club and Union Club. The building features brown stone and a slate roof, showcasing a very ornate High Victorian style with Italianate and Renaissance details. It has four storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof.
The ground floor consists of four bays, including a doorway on the right set within a semicircular arched opening, complete with hood moulds and carved imposts. The spandrels and wall surface between these openings are richly carved with spreading foliage, which also climbs up the large corbel supporting the central two-storey oriel. This is flanked by round-headed windows on the first floor and square-headed windows on the second floor, while the top floor features enriched arcaded windows. The building is topped with a bold crowning cornice and round arched dormers.
Inside, the club boasts equally bold stuccowork and mouldings. Notably, the Dining Room contains a reset early 19th-century chimney piece from Carlton House Terrace.
Local climate
The Constitutional Club sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 13 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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