Cavalry & Guards Club 3rd floor completed

The Cavalry and Guards Club is a private members club at 127 Piccadilly, built between 1888 and 1908, largely to designs by Mewes & Davis. There is a range of dining and drawing rooms with bedroom accommodation. The third floor retained the 1908 arrangement of 15 bedrooms with shared bathrooms and WCs.

The client brief was to refurbish the third floor to a good standard, whilst increasing the number of bed spaces and incorporating en-suite facilities with combined heating and cooling.

The refurbished floor now provides 18 bedrooms, 17 with en-suite facilities. This was made possible by the innovative use of vacuum drainage, similar to that used for many decades on ocean cruise liners.

Governed by the Club’s annual cycle, the contract period was just 16 weeks. By working closely with the client and consultants, the contractor completed the works in time for occupation on Cavalry Day in the second weekend in May.

In just four months, the Club’s third floor has been transformed from a very tired set of bedrooms with communal WCs and bathrooms, to a standard worthy of this prime London location in the twenty first century.

Photo provided courtesy of the Cavalry & Guards Club.