6-12, QUEEN ANNE'S GATE SW1

A block of large terraced town houses at 6-12 Queen Anne’s Gate, built in 1837 by James Elmes and his son Harvey Londsdale Elmes. Number 6 was originally designed as the Parliamentary Agency Offices. The interiors were gutted and rebuilt, and the corner brickwork and window arrangement were renewed in the 1970s. The building is constructed of yellow stock brick with stucco dressings, and has slate roofs. It rises four storeys, with a basement and dormered mansard. Each house is three windows wide, with Number 6 featuring a quadrant corner with one window and a two-window east return. Prominent Ionic columned stucco portico-porches are raised on pedestals and flanked by steps, with balustraded parapets and paired together centrally. The doorways have panelled doors, sidelights, and fanlights. The windows are recessed glazing bar sashes under flat, gauged arches. A continuous first-floor balcony has a cast iron railing; a stucco sill band runs along the third floor, and a stucco crowning cornice and blocking course tops the building. Cast iron spearhead area railings are present. The rear elevation faces St James's Park, and is stuccoed and symmetrical, featuring three-window bows either side of the centre. A broad bow extends from the basement to the first floor, with a balustraded parapet; above this are three windows to the second and third floors, the latter semicircular arched, culminating in a pediment.