Hanover Terrace
1-20, HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1279085
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover Terrace
- Statutory Address:
- 1-20, HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1279085
- Date first listed:
- 14-Jan-1970
- List Entry Name:
- Hanover Terrace
- Statutory Address 1:
- 1-20, HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
- Statutory Address 2:
- HANOVER TERRACE, 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:
- 1-20, HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
- Statutory Address:
- HANOVER TERRACE, 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 27536 82576
Details
TQ 2782 NE and NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER HANOVER TERRACE, 23/18 ;24/4 REGENT'S PARK, NW1 14.1.70 Nos. 1 to 20 (consec.) G.V. I Unified terrace block. 1822-23 by John Nash (built by J.M. Aitkens) as part of his Regent's Park Crown Estate development. Stucco; slate roofs. Long "palace" terrace set back behind garden with drive, with central and terminal Roman Doric porticoed pavilions and ground floor screened by loggia maintaining the palatial illusion. 3 storeys and basement. 3 windows per house. The projecting segmental arcaded rusticated loggia approached by short flights of steps,screens,ground floor doorways and windows. Recessed architraved glazing bar sashes, those on 1st floor with pediments. Doric entablature overall with roundels in metopes and dormers behind blocking course. Central hexastyle pedimented Roman Doric portico over loggia with high-relief subject in tympanum and 3 acroteria statues. Similar tetrastyle porticoes to terminal pavilions. Grecian cast iron balustrade to loggia. Nos. 1 and 20 have porches to their returns. John Nash; John Summerson.
Listing NGR: TQ2753682576
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 210058
- 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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