6, Suffolk Street SW1 is a Grade II* listed building in the Westminster local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 February 1970. Terraced house.
6, Suffolk Street SW1
- WRENN ID
- dim-parapet-vetch
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Westminster
- Constituency
- Cities of London and Westminster MP: Rachel Blake (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 February 1970
- Type
- Terraced house
- Address
- 6, Suffolk Street SW1, City of Westminster
- OS grid reference
- TQ 298 805
- Coordinates
- 51.50857, -0.13056
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
No. 6 Suffolk Street is a terraced house built between 1823 and 1824 by Edward Cresy for himself, as part of the Suffolk Street-Suffolk Place development designed by John Nash. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate roof and features a unique facade that draws inspiration from Palladio's house in Vicenza, reflecting Cresy's Italian tour with Ledwell Taylor.
The house stands three storeys high, with an attic storey and a basement. It has a narrow, tall one-window front flanked by blind windows on the upper floors. The ground floor is slightly advanced and features a channelled design with a square-headed doorway to the right and a tripartite recessed sash window. Above this, a tall, archivolt arched window with looped fan glazing is framed by engaged Ionic columns, which support breaks in a modillion corniced entablature. This entablature serves as a sill band for a second-floor window that is architraved and corniced, set between fluted Corinthian pilasters. These pilasters rise from the entablature breaks below and support a break in the third-floor entablature, which is topped by an architraved attic window. The building is crowned with a modillion cornice and a blocking course. Additionally, the Royal Arms are carved in stone above the ground floor window, and cast iron spearhead area railings complete the exterior.
No. 6 is part of an important collection of street architecture that reflects Nash's Regent Street style.
Local climate
6, Suffolk Street SW1 sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 98% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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