6, Suffolk Street Sw1

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