12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1264251
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address:
12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II*
List Entry Number:
1264251
Date first listed:
05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:
12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1
Statutory Address 1:
12-14, 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:
12-14, 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 29811 80535

Details

TQ 2980 NE CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK STREET, SWl 71/100 Nos 12 to 14 (consec) 5.2.70 G.V. II* Terraced houses. c1822-23 by Lewis William Wyatt as part of Nash's Suffolk Street-Suffolk Place development. Incised coursed stucco, slate roofs. 3 storeys, basement and dormered mansards. Each front 1 window wide. Channelled ground floor with doorways to left but No 13 with former doorway to right as well, all square headed as are recessed sashes except for semicircular arched one of No 12, and framed by Tuscan pilasters supporting block cornice and the console brackets of the 1st floor bombé iron balconettes; the 1st floor windows architraved with shallow consoles to pediments over and shallow architraves to 2nd floor sashes. Rusticated quoins each end of row and main entablature with parapet balustraded in front of dormers. The right hand door of No 13 formerly gave access to 2 separate houses flanking rear courtyard. Cast iron crescent and spear headed area railings with plume finials. Nos 12 to 14 were a private speculation by L W Wyatt who lived at No 13 from 1823 to 1829. Survey of London; Vol XX. Dictionary of British Architects; Howard Colvin.

Listing NGR: TQ2981180535

Legacy

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

Legacy System number:
428379
Legacy System:
LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Colvin, H M, A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840, (1978)
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 12-14, SUFFOLK STREET SW1

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