1-4, SUFFOLK PLACE SW1 (See details for further address information)

This is a symmetrical terrace of four former houses, now offices, located on Suffolk Place. They were built between 1822 and 1823 by John Nash as part of a personal speculative development. The buildings are constructed of stucco with a slate roof, and feature Greek Revival detailing.

The buildings are four storeys high, including an attic, with basements. The fronts are three window wide, composed as a slightly advanced, four-window centrepiece with a pediment, flanked by five-window wide wings. Doorways, positioned to the left, have segmental arches, double-panelled doors, and fanlights featuring a vertical looped pattern. Articulated glazing bar sash windows are screened by a continuous range of three-quarter fluted Greek Doric columns, doubled each end of the front. These columns corbel out from the basement, supporting an entablature and a good Greek Revival wheel pattern iron balcony across the first floor. Full-length casement windows with blind lunette heads, enriched with a shell motif, are set in shallow semi-circular arched recesses on the first floor; the end windows of the wings do not have recesses, and their lunettes are ornamented with a wreath and ribbon design. Recessed glazing bar sashes are present on the second floor. A prominent dentil cornice sits below the pilastered attic storey, which contains rectangular three-light windows. A crowning cornice and a blocking cornice with a shallow pediment over the central piece completes the top, featuring incised panel ornament in the tympanum.

The return elevation to Haymarket is treated as a pedimented, single bay pavilion with a Greek Doric order, a returned balcony framing a display window, and a large tripartite first-floor sash window with shell and fan ornament to a blind lunette-head. The return elevation comprising No. 23 Suffolk Street has a five-window wide front and a central doorway, mirroring the Suffolk Place details. The Doric colonnades stand clear, and the centre windows are blind on the upper floors. The area railings are topped with crescent and spear heads, and have gadroon-pommel finialed standards.

Suffolk Place was built and designed together with Suffolk Street, and remains one of the few surviving examples of John Nash’s Regent Street architecture, alongside the Strand "pepper pots" and the Haymarket Theatre.