Cavalry and Guards Club

At the Hyde Park Corner end of Piccadilly, the Cavalry and Guards Club has occupied 127 Piccadilly since 1890, when Captain Weatherall of the 20th Hussars offered the newly formed Cavalry Club use of the building. Mewes and Davis, fresh from designing the Ritz, rebuilt the clubhouse between 1907 and 1909; the result is a Grade II* listed mansion with a checkerboard-floored entrance hall and a wrought-iron staircase climbing through three storeys, largely unchanged since. The Guards Club, founded in 1810, merged with the Cavalry Club in 1976, bringing military portraits, silver and eight hundred members with it; the Club bought the freehold outright in 1987 rather than see the building converted into a hotel.

Eight function rooms sit across three floors. The Coffee Room runs the length of the first floor, its tall windows overlooking Green Park; the Field Marshals' Room, hung with portraits of the Club's namesakes, has its own entrance onto Piccadilly and opens to the terrace by French doors. Smaller rooms include the Chetwode, Waterloo, Peninsular, Queen Elizabeth and Double Bridal, the last two named for a portrait of the Club's former Lady Patron and a Chairman's horse respectively. A glass-roofed conservatory off the courtyard serves as an informal bar.

All events are hosted or sponsored by a member, and the Club's banqueting team plans everything from an usher's lunch to a reception for three hundred guests. Fully licensed for members and their guests, the Club also makes its 38 bedrooms available alongside a function booking.