# Hanover Terrace

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**Hanover Terrace** overlooks [Regent's Park](/source/Regent's_Park) in [City of Westminster](/source/City_of_Westminster), London, England. The terrace is a Grade I [listed building](/source/Listed_building).[1]

## History

It was designed by [John Nash](/source/John_Nash_(architect)) in 1822.[2] It has a centre and two wing buildings, of the [Doric order](/source/Doric_order), the [acroterion](/source/Acroterion), above which statues and other sculptural decorations of [terracotta](/source/Terra_cotta) are erected. The centre building is crowned by a well proportioned [pediment](/source/Pediment), the [tympanum](/source/Tympanum_(architecture)) of which is embellished with statues and figures. The style of architecture employed by the artist is [Italian](/source/Italianate_architecture) or [Palladian](/source/Palladian_architecture). The [capitals](/source/Capital_(architecture)) are well proportioned in design, and well executed, but the [entablature](/source/Entablature) is weak in profile for the height of the building. The stories of the mansions are lofty, and the domestic arrangement of the various rooms convenient. The situation of this [terrace](/source/Terraced_house) is near the northwestern extremity of the western branch of the park's lake.[3]

During the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War), the Nash buildings around the park, including Hanover Terrace, fell into what one newspaper called "a sad state of neglect … caused by bombing and the ravages of time".[4] An official report commented "there is not a single terrace which does not give the impression of hopeless dereliction".[5] Restoration work followed in the early 1950s.[4] The terrace was mainly occupied by government departments, during and after the war,[6] but by 1957, the freeholder of the terrace, the [Crown Estate](/source/Crown_Estate), had adopted the policy of returning it, and the other Nash terraces, to private residential use,[7] as recommended ten years earlier in the report of a government committee on the post-war future of the terraces.[5]

There are three [blue plaques](/source/Blue_plaque) on houses in the terrace: one at no.10 for [Ralph Vaughan Williams](/source/Ralph_Vaughan_Williams),[8] one at no.11 for [Anthony Salvin](/source/Anthony_Salvin),[9] and one at no.13 for [H. G. Wells](/source/H._G._Wells).[10] Other well-known residents of the terrace included [Edmund Gosse](/source/Edmund_Gosse),[11] the soldier [Sir Alexander Bryce](/source/Alexander_Bryce_(British_Army_officer)), the dancer [Adeline Genée](/source/Adeline_Gen%C3%A9e), the shipowner and philanthropist [Richard Green](/source/Richard_Green_(shipowner)), the MP [Samuel Gurney](/source/Samuel_Gurney_(MP)), the shipping and aviation magnate [Sir Samuel Instone](/source/Samuel_Instone), the publisher [Thomas Longman](/source/Thomas_Longman_(1804%E2%80%931879)), the missionary [Irene Petrie](/source/Irene_Petrie), the racecourse owner [Mirabel Topham](/source/Mirabel_Topham), the artist [Feliks Topolski](/source/Feliks_Topolski), the playwright [Harold Pinter](/source/Harold_Pinter), the historian [Lady Antonia Fraser](/source/Antonia_Fraser) and the architect [Sir Aston Webb](/source/Aston_Webb).[12]

## References

1. ["Hanover Terrace, a John Nash gem on sale for £34m," By Ed Cumming. *The Telegraph*, July 10, 2013.](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/property/luxury-homes/10159529/Hanover-Terrace-a-John-Nash-gem-on-sale-for-34m.html)

1. Shepherd, Thomas Hosmer (1827). [*Metropolitan Improvements: Or, London in the Nineteenth Century, Displayed in a Series of Engravings of the New Buildings, Improvements, &c. by the Most Eminent Artists from Original Drawings, Taken from the Objects Themselves Expressly for this Work*](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5kQYAAAAYAAJ). Jones. pp. [48](https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_5kQYAAAAYAAJ/page/n55)–. Retrieved 21 November 2012.

1. "The Glory of John Nash's London", *The Sphere*, 13 September 1952, p. 395

1. "Nash Houses Turned Down As a New "Whitehall", *Illustrated London News*, 26 April 1947, p. 423

1. "Nash Houses May Be Spared", *Marylebone Mercury*, 11 June 1954, p. 1

1. "Preserving the Nash Terraces", *The Sphere*, 14 December 1957, p. 434

1. ["Ralph Vaughan Williams | Composer | Blue Plaques"](https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/ralph-vaughan-williams/). *English Heritage*. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

1. ["Anthony Salvin | Architect | Blue Plaques"](https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/anthony-salvin/). *English Heritage*. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

1. ["H. G. Wells | Writer | Blue Plaques"](https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/h-g-wells/). *English Heritage*. Retrieved 15 April 2020.

1. "A Critic Criticised", *The Sphere*, 18 April 1931, p. 110,

1. ["Hanover Terrace"](https://www.oxforddnb.com/search?f_0=fulltext&q_0=%22Hanover+Terrace%22), *Oxford Dictionary of National Biography*. Retrieved 22 September 2021

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