17, Exeter Street Wc2

No. 17 Exeter Street is a Grade II listed building located in the City of Westminster, built between 1863 and 1864 by Charles Octavius Parnell as the Victoria Sporting Club. The building features a stucco exterior with a slate roof and showcases a lush Italianate-Baroque style at the corner, while the flanks are more simply detailed. It consists of three main storeys raised on a basement, with an attic storey above.

The façade facing Exeter Street is eight windows wide, with a bowed projecting corner and a three-window return to Wellington Street. The corner entrance has a flight of steps leading up to a deeply recessed doorway, which is semicircular arched and flanked by coupled rusticated columns. The adjoining bays on each front are treated as part of the overall design, featuring oculi in the tympana of archivolts above the windows, which are also flanked by coupled rusticated pilasters.

The first floor is similarly elaborated with a Venetian window. The flanks of the building have channelled arcaded ground floor windows, while the upper floors feature architraved and keystoned sash windows. A sill band runs along the first floor, with a cornice above it and a pseudo-parapet serving as a sill course to the second floor. The main entablature has a modillion cornice that breaks forward over the corner feature, and there is a cornice and blocking course at the attic storey. The building occupies a prominent corner site.