Royal Air Force Club is a Grade II listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 July 1969. Club. 18 related planning applications.
Royal Air Force Club
- WRENN ID
- graven-groin-hawk
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 July 1969
- Type
- Club
- Address
- Royal Air Force Club, 128, Piccadilly W1, City of Westminster, W1J 7PY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 285 799
- Coordinates
- 51.50419, -0.14852
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Royal Air Force Club sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 18 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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