Houses in Suffolk Street
Houses in Suffolk Street
Record No
140529
Title
Houses in Suffolk Street
Description
Front elevation of 8-12 Suffolk Street, Westminster. Numbers 8, 9 and 11 (there was no number 10) are Grade II* listed buildings, listing number 1237162 built in 1823 by John Nash. 12 Suffolk Street is part of a Grade II* building, listing number 1264251, built in 1822-23 by Lewis William Wyatt as private speculation as part of John Nash’s Suffolk Street to Suffolk Place development. A three-storey terrace of houses with attic rooms and basement, and a stucco finish. The front door to number 8 has a large sign fixed to the right of the door for a firm of Land Agents. A man can be seen looking out of the window towards the camera. There is a flagpole protruding from the wall between two of the first-floor windows. There appears to be folded sun blinds above the door and ground-floor window. Number 9 has the names of the occupiers carved into the stonework on either side of the door. Number 11 has several name plaques on the walls beside the front door. The frontage of the terrace has cast-iron railings with the entrance to the basements at the opposite end from the front doors. There are several signs fixed to the railings saying that cars must not park there. There is a fire hydrant sign fixed to the bottom of the balustrade between numbers 8 and 9. There is a street lamp column at the front of the pavement by the door to number 8. Numbers 12 to 14 form a three-storey terrace with basements and attic rooms with dormer windows. The front door to number 12 is adjacent to the door to number 11. Several people are standing outside the door to number 13. There are several motor cars parked on both sides of the road. The building at the end of Suffolk Street facing the camera is a hotel, destroyed in the Blitz of World War II and rebuilt after the war. There is a blue plaque on the wall of number 14 for the artist Richard Dadd, (1817-1886) who lived there for a period. All these buildings have since been renovated are mostly offices. Number 8 is part of the Embassy to the Philippines.
Date of execution
1939
Section
The London Archives
Collection
LCC Photograph Library
Medium
photograph
Catalogue No
SC_PHL_01_533_B8751
London picture map location
Exact
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