5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1237160
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address:
5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1237160
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address 1:
5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

The scope of legal protection for listed buildings

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Corrections and minor amendments

Location

Statutory Address:
5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:
Greater London Authority
District:
City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:
Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:
TQ 29834 80499

Details

TQ 2980 SE and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK STREET, SWl 71/104 : 82/10 5.2.70 No 5 G.V. II* Terraced house. c1826 by G Ledwell Taylor as part of Nash's Suffolk Street-Suffolk Place development. Stucco, slate roof. 3 storeys, attic storey and basement. 2 windows wide. Channelled ground floor with channelling struck to semicircular arched openings: recessed panelled door with fanlight to left and recessed glazing bar sash window to right. Recessed glazing bar sashes, those on 1st and 2nd floors with architraves and the full length 1st floor ones with pediments on consoles. Block cornice over ground floor, main dentil cornice over 2nd floor and crowning cornice to attic. Bowed cast iron balconettes to 1st floor. Cast iron spear head area railings. The demolished No 4 was of the same design and Ledwell Taylor was probably introduced through his friendship with Edward Cresy who built No 6 for himself. Important survival of street architecture in Nash's Regent Street manner. Survey of London: Vol XX. John Nash : John Summerson Dictionary of British Architects; Howard Colvin

Listing NGR: TQ2983480499

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:
428375
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
Survey of London in Trafalgar Square and neighbourhood The Parish of St Martin-in-the-Fields Part 3: Volume 20 , Vol. 20, (1979)

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.

Ordnance survey map of 5, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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