Description

CITY OF WESTMINSTER SUFFOLK PLACE SWl TQ 2980 SE Nos 1 to 4 consec. (including former 82/25 No 3 now part of 6 Haymarket and No 5.2.70 23 Suffolk Street) GV II* Symmetrical terrace of former houses, now offices. 1822-23 by John Nash. Stucco, slate roof. Greek RevivaL details. 4 storeys, including attic storey, and basements. 3 window wide fronts composed as 4 window, slightly advanced, pedimented centre with 5 window wide wings. Doorways, placed to left, are segmental arched with double panelled doors and fanlights of vertical looped pattern; doorways and ground floor glazing bar sashes are articulated and screened by a continuous range of ¾ fluted Greek Doric columns, doubled each end of front, corbelled out from basement and supporting entablature and good Greek Revival wheel pattern iron balcony across 1st floor. Full length casement windows to 1st floor with blind lunette heads enriched with shell motif, set in shallow semi-circular arched recesses; the end windows of the wings are not however set in recesses and their blind lunettes have wreath and ribbon ornament; recessed glazing bar sashes to 2nd floor; main dentil cornice below pilastered attic storey with rectangular 3-light windows and crowning cornice and blocking cornice with shallow pediment over centre- piece, the tympanum with incised panel ornament. The return to Haymarket is treated as pedimented single bay pavilion with Greek Doric order and balcony returned framing display window, large tripartite 1st floor sash window with shell and fan ornament to blind lunette-head and the pedimented attic with central square window flanked by oculi. The return comprising No 23 Suffolk Street elevation has same details as Suffolk Place with a 5 window wide front and central doorway. The Doric colonnades standing clear; centre windows blind on upper floors. The area railings have crescent and spear heads, and gadroon-pommel finialed standards. Suffolk Place was built and designed together with Suffolk Street largely on the personal speculation of Nash and the whole remains with the Strand "pepper pots" and the Haymarket Theatre the only surviving example of Nash's Regent Street architecture. Survey of London; vol XX John Nash: John Summerson

Listing NGR: TQ2980880489

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