Hanover Terrace

Hanover Terrace is a unified terrace block dating from 1822-23, built as part of John Nash's development of Regent's Park Crown Estate, and constructed by J.M. Aitkens. The terrace is set back behind a garden with a drive, designed to evoke a palatial character with Roman Doric porticoed pavilions at both ends and in the centre, with a ground floor loggia maintaining this impression. The building is three storeys high with a basement, featuring three windows per house. A projecting, segmental arcaded and rusticated loggia, approached by short flights of steps, screens the ground floor doorways and windows. The upper floors have recessed architraved glazing bar sash windows, those on the first floor being topped by pediments. A Doric entablature runs along the length of the terrace, with roundels in the metopes and dormers positioned behind a blocking course. The central portico is hexastyle with a pediment containing a high-relief subject in the tympanum and three acroteria statues. Similar, but smaller, tetrastyle porticoes are present on the terminal pavilions. The loggia is edged by a Grecian cast iron balustrade. Nos. 1 and 20 have porches on their returns.