The Garrick Club

TQ 3080 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER GARRICK STREET, WC2 72/26 No. 15: 14.1.70 The Garrick Club G.V. II* Gentleman's Club. c.1860 by F. Marrable. Portland cement render, slate roof. Large Italianate palazzo. 3 tall storeys on basement and dormered mansard. 7 windows wide. Deeply channelled ground floor, with vermiculated rustication to basement, has enriched architraved semicircular arched portal, to right of centre, containing the flight of steps up to lobby doors. Segmental arched basement lights in plinth and tall architraved ground floor sash windows, 1st floor tall piano nobile windows with balustrading and segmental pediments. 2nd floor windows set in festooned frieze with long console brackets to projecting modillion main cornice. Rusticated and vermiculated quoins, applied pedestal with sill course to 1st floor. The main cornice is surmounted by balustrade with 4 dies developed as corniced chimney stacks. Rich Italianate mouldings to interiors with spacious open well top lit staircase with ornate cast iron balustrade; unique collection of theatrical paintings,due to association, from the Club's inception, with the theatre. Survey of London; Vol.

Listing NGR: TQ3011680828