1-5, Regent's Park Nw1 London, England
Listed Building Data
1-5, Regent's Park Nw1 has been designated a Grade I listed building in England with the following information, which has been imported from the National Heritage List for England. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- List Entry ID
- 1225218
- Listing Type
- listed building
- Grade
- I
- Date Listed
- 5 February 1970
- Name
- 1-5, REGENT'S PARK NW1 (See details for further address information)
- Location
- 1-5, OUTER CIRCLE NW11-5, REGENT'S PARK NW11-5, YORK GATE NW1
- District
- City of Westminster
- County
- Greater London Authority
- Grid Reference
- TQ 28281 82125
- Easting
- 528281.0000
- Northing
- 182125.0000
Listed Building Description
Text courtesy of Historic England. © Crown Copyright, reprinted under the Open Government License.
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
