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Latitude: 51.5235 / 51°31'24"N
Longitude: -0.1517 / 0°9'6"W
OS Eastings: 528326
OS Northings: 182127
OS Grid: TQ283821
Mapcode National: GBR B8.31
Mapcode Global: VHGQS.BY5Z
Plus Code: 9C3XGRFX+98
Entry Name: Royal Academy of Music
Listing Date: 2 October 1987
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1239816
English Heritage Legacy ID: 417824
ID on this website: 101239816
Location: Marylebone, Westminster, London, NW1
County: London
District: City of Westminster
Electoral Ward/Division: Marylebone High Street
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: City of Westminster
Traditional County: Middlesex
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Greater London
Church of England Parish: St Marylebone
Church of England Diocese: London
Tagged with: Conservatory University Higher education institution Architectural structure Educational organisation
TQ 2882 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER MARYLEBONE ROAD, W1
35/37 (North side)
2.10.87 Royal Academy of Music
II
Academy. 1910-11 by Sir Ernest George and Alfred B Yeates. Red brick with
generous stone dressings, channelled stone ground floor and stone faced
centrepiece; slate roofs. Large symmetrical composition with centre block and
projecting wings designed as a scaled up free version of an English baroque
country house. 5 storey and basement centre block with dormers in steeply hipped
roof and wings with podium-ground floor and double height upper storey. Centre
block 6 windows wide with 2-window centrepiece and 3-bay wings. Ground floor of
centrepiece built out to form large porch with semicircular arched keystoned
entrance and 1st floor sill band carried over as cornice. Recessed glazing bar
casements, semicircular arched with keystones on ground floor; the 1st to 3rd
floor windows vertically linked by stone architraves and aprons with bold
segmental pediments over those on 2nd floor to flanking bays and triangular
pediments in centrepiece; attic storey with segmented arched windows in
centrepiece and stone framed corniced and keyed oeils-de-boeuf in flanking bays.
Rusticated quoins; centrepiece main floors flanked by giant Ionic pilasters
rising to deep entablature carried across block and returned to sides and attic
eaves cornice with bold segmental pediment on consoles over centrepiece
containing oeil-de-boeuf framed by 2 large reclining figures. Casemented dormers
and symmetrically grouped lofty stone banded and corniced arch panelled chimney
stacks. The wings balance but differ slightly; left hand one with central,
vertically linked stone architraves, 1st floor window and 2nd floor console
pedimented half dormer, flanking carved panels; the right hand wing (housing
Duke's Hall) with advanced quoined and pedimented centrepiece with semicircular
arched windows; both wings have angle quoins, vases on parapets and steep, almost
pyramidal slate roofs with same tall chimney stacks as main block, to flanks.
Listing NGR: TQ2832682127
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