Former United University Club

The former United University Club, built between 1906 and 1907 by Sir Reginald Blomfield, is a former club-house located at 3 to 5 Pall Mall East in the City of Westminster. Constructed from Portland stone with a slate roof, it showcases an early example of Blomfield's refined Beaux Arts classicism influenced by neo-Gabriel French style, while also incorporating some English neo-Mannerist features.

The building has three storeys, a basement, and a dormered mansard roof. It features a nine-window façade facing Pall Mall East, arranged in a rhythm of 1:3:1:3:1, which was originally 1:3:1 before being extended by Blomfield. The return façade on Suffolk Street is ten windows wide and has also been extended. The entrance includes a recessed porch at the end of the original Suffolk Street front, supported by two Doric columns in antis beneath an entablature.

The ground floor is smoothly rusticated, emphasizing horizontal joints, and features recessed square-headed small pane glazing bar sashes. The upper floors have similar sashes, with groups of window bays framed by full-height channelled piers. On Pall Mall East, the recessed single window bays are flanked by giant Ionic quarter columns, while the wider three-window groups are set in shallow, recessed segmental bows. The design on Suffolk Street is similar, but the recessed bays consist of two windows and are further highlighted by a central engaged Ionic column in antis. The segmental bow three-window group is set forward from the building line.

The building is topped with a deep entablature, a projecting cornice, and a balustraded and panelled parapet adorned with flambeau vases at the corners and above the three-window groups. It features segmental pedimented dormers and a cupola on the ridge. The prominent first-floor balconies are supported by console brackets and have urn-finialed iron railings with ornate scrollwork panels. Additionally, there are iron area railings with coupled urn-finialed standards. The interior does not exhibit the clear axiality typical of a Beaux Arts plan.