1-5, YORK GATE NW1, 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1, 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1

1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1225218
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 1-5, YORK GATE NW1, 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1, 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address:: 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: I
List Entry Number:: 1225218
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: 1-5, YORK GATE NW1, 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1, 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address 1:: 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address 2:: 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address 3:: 1-5, YORK GATE NW1

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address:: 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address:: 1-5, YORK GATE NW1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28281 82125

Details

TQ 2882 SW CITY OF WESTMINSTER YORK GATE 35/36 REGENT'S PARK NWl 5.2.70 Nos 1 to 5(consec.)

GV I

Unified terrace block. c.1821-22 by John Nash as part of his Regent's Park Crown Estate development. Gutted and rebuilt internally as one unit. Stucco; slate roof. Block treated as single free standing composition with the (former) end houses as pavilions and the entrances originally to rear and north ends providing the same palace illusion as at York Terrace East and West q.v. Grecian detail with the same giant Ionic Illissian order as York Terrace. 4 storeys (including attic storey) on basement. 11 windows wide in all with slightly advanced returns with entrances. Rusticated podium ground floor with windows set in deep arcade between end pavilions which each have tripartite segmental arched window. 1st and 2nd floor glazing bar sashes of main range set within giant engaged Ionic colonnade; end pavilions with tall tripartite 1st floor windows with segmental arched blind lunettes and with eared architrave 2nd floor windows. Semicircular arched blind headed attic windows and thermal windows to pavilion attics. Cornice and balustraded parapet over ground floor. Continuous plain frieze and cornice over 2nd floor; attic cornice and blocking course. The 3 window returns have large enclosed porches with Greek Doric columns in antis. Rear elevation has plain pilastraded upper floors. Anthemion patterned cast iron balconettes to 1st floor pavilion windows on front. Grecian palmette finialed area railings. York Gate was a modification in Nash's plan to open up a vista of Hardwick's new church of St Mary, Marylebone Road, q.v. and is balanced by the identical block Nos 8 to 12 q.v. John Nash; John Summerson.

Listing NGR: TQ2828182125

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Legacy System number:: 207702
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Summerson, J, The Life and Work of John Nash, (1980)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.