5, Suffolk Street Sw1

No 5 Suffolk Street is a terraced house built around 1826 by G Ledwell Taylor as part of Nash's Suffolk Street-Suffolk Place development. The building is constructed of stucco with a slate roof and has three storeys, an attic storey, and a basement. It is two windows wide. The ground floor features channelled work with semicircular arched openings, a recessed panelled door with a fanlight to the left, and a recessed glazing bar sash window to the right. The first and second floors have recessed glazing bar sashes, with architraves on both floors and full-length first-floor windows topped with pediments on consoles. There is a block cornice above the ground floor, a main dentil cornice over the second floor, and a crowning cornice at the attic level. The first floor has bowed cast iron balconettes, and there are cast iron spearhead area railings. The now-demolished No 4 was of the same design, and Ledwell Taylor likely became involved in the project through his friendship with Edward Cresy, who built No 6 for himself. This building is an important example of street architecture in the style of Nash's Regent Street.