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TQ 2882 SE CITY OF WESTMINSTER PARK CRESCENT, Wl 36/23 (east side) 5.2.70 Nos. 1 to 6 (consec,) 8, 10, 12 and 14 (Including No. 98 Portland Place) G.V. I Quadrant of town houses forming eastern half of crescent. 1812 (restored after war damage) by John Nash and the earliest feature of his Regent's Park development. Stucco faced; slate roofs. Simple spacious Grecian detailing distinguished by the unifying sweep of the ground floor colonnade. 4 storeys (including attic storey) and basement. 3 window-wide fronts, the end houses have very slightly advanced fronts as terminal pavilions with returns to Marylebone Road and Portland Place respectively, the latter with colonnade returned as well. The colonnade of coupled Ionic columns on square plinths uniformly screens the basement areas and ground floors with balustraded parapet to terrace over dentil corniced entablature; the channelled ground floor has square headed recessed doorways (some altered to windows) and recessed glazing bar sashes. Between the end pavilions the 1st floor glazing bar sashes are semicircular arched and recessed for 2 orders; square headed recessed glazing bar sashes to 2nd floor and attic storey. The end pavilion houses have square headed windows in shallow architraves, with cornices over on 1st floor, and semicircular arched attic storey windows; similar fenestration to their returns but the ground floor windows to Marylebone Road also semicircular headed. Cornice and blocking course over 2nd floor; attic cornice and balustraded parapet over the intervening houses and shallow block pediments with acroteria to terminal pavilions. Cast iron spear head area railings in the intercolumniations. Park Crescent is Nash's sweeping introduction to Regent's Park, via Park Square q.v., from the axis of Portland Place and is the southern half of the vast projected circus in his 1811-12 scheme. John Nash; John Summerson. History of the King's Works; VI.

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