Brook'S Club (South Of Number 60)

Brook's Club, located south of number 60 on St. James's Street in the City of Westminster, is a gentlemen's club built in 1778 by architect Henry Holland, marking his first major commission. The building is constructed of fine white Suffolk brick with stone dressings and features a slate roof, showcasing a restrained neo-Classical design influenced by the Chambers school.

The club consists of three storeys and a basement, with a five-bay front that includes a podium. The ground floor has an off-centre doorway framed by a stone architrave and cornice, with plainly recessed glazing bar sashes beneath flat gauged arches. Above the ground floor is a plat band, from which rises a two-storey giant stone order of Corinthian pilasters, coupled at the corners. These pilasters articulate the window bays and support an entablature adorned with a delicate frieze and a dentilled, bracketed cornice. The central three bays are pedimented, featuring an oval relief in the tympanum and a balustraded parapet with urns. The first-floor windows are topped with alternating segmental and triangular pediments. The return to Park Place mirrors this treatment, with a pedimented first-floor window flanked by Venetian windows at the end bays. To the left, there is an extension added in 1889 by MacVicar Anderson, designed in a plainer style with rectangular bay windows. The property is further enhanced by good cast iron area railings, and the rear of the original block features two full-height bows.

Inside, the club has a remodelled staircase beneath a glass dome and two elegantly designed upper rooms. The Subscription Room boasts a carved ceiling and one of the side Venetian windows, with a restrained and simplified decoration that contrasts with the Adam work of the same period. The adjoining room, also featuring Venetian windows, maintains a similar level of restraint, with an apsed center on the rear wall. Behind one of the rear bows, there is a circular room on each floor.