Kent Terrace

Kent Terrace is a unified terrace block dating from 1827, designed by John Nash and built by William Smith. It represents one of the final terraces constructed as part of Nash’s Regent’s Park Crown Estate development. The architecture is of a Grecian-Palladian style, incorporating giant Ionic columns in a recessed (antis) format to the centre and terminal features, which are slightly advanced. Unusually for Regent's Park terraces, it faces away from the park itself, backing onto Hanover Terrace Mews, and is set behind forecourt gardens fronting Park Road.

The terrace is four storeys high, including an attic level, and sits atop basements. Each house has two or three windows visible behind the façade. The central section features a five-bay colonnade recessed in antis, along with a pedimented attic and similar one-bay terminal pavilions. Link ranges are positioned at each end, featuring tripartite window bays. Segmental arched doorways and ground floor windows are recessed for one order. First and second floor windows have architraves, with cornices above the first floor. Attic windows are also recessed for one order. The terminal window bays on the first floor are tripartite sashes with segmental arches.

The link ranges incorporate a plat band above the first floor, a second floor sill course with narrow aprons, a main cornice above the second floor, an attic cornice, and a blocking course. A cast iron balcony with a continuous palmette pattern runs along the link ranges, the central section, and the end pavilions, which have stucco balustrades. The boundary is marked by cast iron railings with a tasselled spearhead pattern.