Vad Ladies Club is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 December 1987. Club premises. 2 related planning applications.
Vad Ladies Club
- WRENN ID
- former-chimney-moon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 December 1987
- Type
- Club premises
- Address
- Vad Ladies Club, 44, Great Cumberland Place W1, City of Westminster, W1H 7BS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 277 812
- Coordinates
- 51.51575, -0.15982
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The VAD Ladies Club is a corner block of four terraced townhouses that have been combined into a single club premises, dating from around 1800 as part of the Portman Estate development. The building is constructed of multicoloured stock brick with channelled stucco ground floors and features concealed slate roofs, except for the northernmost house which has a visible roof. It stands four storeys high with a basement and has an added dormered mansard roof on the northernmost former house. The façades are three windows wide, and the doorways have been altered to windows, with the main entrance located on the Upper Berkeley Street front, featuring a Tuscan columned stucco porch. The upper floors have recessed sash windows under flat gauged arches. A plat band finishes the ground floor stuccowork, while crowning stucco cornices and blocking courses adorn the top. The first floor includes cast iron window guards and a full-width bracketed balcony on the former corner house. Additionally, there are cast iron urn finialed area railings on both fronts. This building is included for its group value only.
Local climate
Vad Ladies Club sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 51% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 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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