Numbers 1 to 12 Park Square West
1-12, PARK SQUARE WEST NW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1265975
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 12 Park Square West
- Statutory Address:
- 1-12, PARK SQUARE WEST NW1
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- 1999-08-30
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1265975
- Date first listed:
- 05-Feb-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Numbers 1 to 12 Park Square West
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-12, PARK SQUARE WEST NW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 12 PARK SQUARE WEST, REGENT'S PARK NW1
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- 1-12, PARK SQUARE WEST NW1
- Statutory Address:
- NUMBERS 1 TO 12 PARK SQUARE WEST, REGENT'S PARK 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 28547 82203
Details
TQ 2882 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK SQUARE WEST, NWl 36/32 (REGENT'S PARK) 5.2.70 Nos. 1 to 12(consec.) G.V. I Terrace of town houses. 1823-25 by John Nash as part of his Regent's Park Crown Estate development. Stucco; slate roofs. Symmetrically balanced block as mirror image of Park Square East, opposite (in the London Borough of Camden) with end and centre 3 houses advanced. Graeco-Roman detailing. The advanced houses of 4 storeys (including attic storey), the intervening ones of 3 storeys and mansard, on basements. 3-window fronts with the centre break having 2-window fronts flanking central 3-window one. Doorways and ground floor windows set in engaged Ionic colonnade, varied on centre break by rusticated astylar treatment; panelled doors approached by flights of steps with rectangular loop patterned fanlights. Recessed glazing bar sashes, those on 1st floor arcaded with keystones and moulded imposts. Cornice over 2nd floor and secondary cornices to attic storeys over centre and ends with balustraded parapets screening dormered mansards in between. Grecian spear head cast iron area railings. Originally planned by Nash as circus with Park Crescent q.v., Park Square completes the formal approach to Regent's Park from Portland Place and the crescent. John Nash; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ2854782203
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 423278
- 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.
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