Description

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

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Royal Academy of Music at Wikipedia
• Royal Academy of Music official website
• Wikidata Q1144673

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Recommended Books

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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Warwickshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  A Buying and Owning a Listed Building: A Brief Guide
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  Cambridgeshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Huddersfield in 50 Buildings
• 
  Drawing up a Local Listed Building Consent Order: Historic England Advice Note 6