47, Parliament Street Sw1

TQ 3079 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARLIAMENT STREET, SWl 92/24 (east side) 5.2.70 No 47 G.V. II* End of terrace former clubhouse. 1864-66 by C O Parnell,built as the Whitehall Club. Portland stone, slate roof. "Florid Italian" (sic definition of the period) palazzo, in richly modelled and carved C16 Venetian manner. 3 tall storeys with attic storey in frieze, raised on basement. 3-window wide front, 3 groups of windows to Derby Gate return and 4-window wide rear. Rusticated elevations with entrance in centre of Derby Gate return; archivolt arched portal rising through basement and ground floor with much relief carving above and flanked on ground floor level by pairs of Ionic pilasters. The ground floor windows either side treated as Venetian windows set in shallow panels flanked by Ionic pilasters and with carved spandrels. To Parliament Street the ground floor windows have pilastered jambs and archivolt arches whilst the 1st floor windows are architraved with pediments on consoles, framed on the ground floor by an engaged coupled column Ionic order and on the 1st floor by a Corinthian engaged order. The lst floor to Derby Gate has tripartite architraved windows with segmental pediments over centre lights set in shallow panels framed by Corinthian pilaster order. 2nd floor windows architraved with cornices on consoles. Oval attic windows set in frieze below cornice. Plat band over basement, ground floor entablature broken forward over capitals and with engaged urns to corners; 2nd floor entablature confined to window bays; deep and richly carved frieze beneath the crowning, enriched, modillion cornice; stone "Venetian" chimney stacks above corners. Parnell was also architect of the equally rich Italianate Army and Navy Club since demolished.

Listing NGR: TQ3018779771