Royal Air Force Club

The Royal Air Force Club is a Grade II listed building located on the north side of Piccadilly in the City of Westminster. Originally built in 1888 by Aldolphus Croft for Gillow and Co., it was designed as part of three private mansions. The building is faced with Portland stone and features ornate decoration in a vaguely Italianate style. It stands four storeys tall, with a basement and a slated dormered mansard roof. The ground floor is rusticated, with doorways at each end flanked by inset Doric columns made of polished pink granite. The windows are surrounded by architraves with cornices on the first floor, and there are two elaborately modeled canted bays, each with three windows per floor, rising three storeys. The building is accented by string courses and a deeply moulded projecting cornice. A carved RAF emblem is prominently displayed in the center of the top storey, and there is a stone balustraded area.