6, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
6, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264250
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 6, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
- Statutory Address:
- 6, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1264250
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- 6, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
- Statutory Address 1:
- 6, 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.
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 6, 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 29832 80505
Details
TQ 2980 SE and NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK STREET, SWl 71/103 : 82/9 5.2.70 No 6 G.V. II* Terraced house. 1823-24 by Edward Cresy for himself, as part of Nash's Suffolk Street-Suffolk Place development. Stucco, slate roof. Individual un-Nash-like facade based on Palladio's house in Vicenza and no doubt both fruit and advertisement of Cresy's Italian tour with Ledwell Taylor. 3 storeys, attic storey and basement. Narrow tall 1 window front with blind flanking windows to upper floors. Channelled ground floor slightly advanced with square headed doorway to right and tripartite recessed sash window. Block cornice-plinth over ground floor from which rises tall, archivolt arched window with looped fan glazing to head, between engaged Ionic columns carrying breaks in modillion corniced entablature; this acts in turn as sill band to 2nd floor architraved and corniced window set between fluted Corinthian pilasters rising from the entablature breaks below to carry the break in the 3rd floor entablature above which is an architraved attic window; crowning modillion cornice and blocking course. Royal Arms in stone over ground floor window. Cast iron spearhead area railings. Part of an 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: TQ2983280505
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 428376
- 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.
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