6 1/2 AND 7, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237161
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 6 1/2 AND 7, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address:: 6 1/2 AND 7, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II*
List Entry Number:: 1237161
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
Date of most recent amendment:: 01-Dec-1987
List Entry Name:: 6 1/2 AND 7, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address 1:: 6 1/2 AND 7, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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

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

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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Location

Statutory Address:: 6 1/2 AND 7, 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 29823 80508

Details

TQ 2980 SE and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK STREET, SW1 71/102 Nos 6½ and 7 5.2.70 (formerly listed as the Society of British Artists and Gallery) G.V. II* Former institution and gallery, now offices. c1823 by John Nash with James Elmes. Stucco, slate roof. Graeco Roman. 3 storeys and attic storey. 3 windows wide. Advanced arcaded ground floor - podium supporting an imposing Roman Doric, giant, pedimented portico screening 2 storeys of architraved sash windows. Small square attic windows and crowning cornice and blocking course. Interior by Elmes and Nash much altered by office development behind facade but retaining gallery now as part of No 1 Hobhouse Court. The Society of British Artists was founded by James Elmes (father of Harvey Lonsdale Elmes of St George's Hall fame) in 1823 and he was the editor of Shepherd's "Metropolitan Improvements" etc. Important survival of Nash's street architecture in the Regent Street manner. Survey of London; Vol XX. John Nash; John Summerson Dictionary of British Architects; Howard Colvin

Listing NGR: TQ2982380508

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:: 428377
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.