York Terrace
{{Short description|Street next to Regent's Park in London}}
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File:York Terrace West, London 24 April 2015.JPG
York Terrace overlooks the south side of Regent's Park in Marylebone, City of Westminster, London, England. York Terrace West is a Grade I listed building.{{NHLE|desc=7, York Gate NW1, 1–33, York Terrace West NW1, 1–33, Regent's Park NW1, 1–33, Outer Circle NW1|num=1066047|access-date=17 May 2020}} York Terrace East contains Grade II listed buildings.{{NHLE|desc=21 and 22, York Terrace East NW1, 21 AND 22, Regent's Park NW1, 21 and 22, Outer Circle NW1|num=1066045|access-date=17 May 2020}}{{NHLE|desc=23, York Terrace East NW1, 23, Regent's Park NW1, 23, Outer Circle NW1|num=1075776|access-date=17 May 2020}}{{NHLE|desc=42–48, York Terrace East NW1, 42–48, Regent's Park NW1, 42–48, Outer Circle NW1|num=1357400|access-date=17 May 2020}} 1–18 York Terrace East is listed at Grade I.{{NHLE|desc=1–18, York Terrace East NW1|num=1066044|access-date=10 August 2020}}
History
It consists of two separate Regency style terraced buildings, York Terrace East and York Terrace West, which are joined by York Gate (built 1813) which frames St Marylebone Parish Church. York Terrace is one of the park's principal buildings.{{cite book|last=Elmes|first=James|title=A Topographical Dictionary of London and Its Environs: Containing Descriptive and Critical Accounts of All the Public and Private Buildings, Offices, Docks, Squares, Streets, Lanes, Wards, Liberties, Charitable, Scholastic and Other Establishments, with Lists of Their Officers, Patrons, Incumbents of Livings, &c. &c. &c. in the British Metropolis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjEQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA352|access-date=21 November 2012|edition= Public domain|year=1831|publisher=Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot|pages=352, 360–}}
As with Cornwall Terrace and Clarence Terrace, York Terrace was constructed by the company of James Burton,{{cite web|url=http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/50182?rskey=dTXFr9&result=1|title=James Burton [Haliburton], Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}} to a design by John Nash{{Cite book|title=The London Encyclopaedia|date=1993|publisher=PaperMac|last1=Weinreb|first1=Ben|last2=Hibbert|first2=Christopher|isbn=0333576888|edition= Rev.|location=London|oclc=28963301|page=1004}} and Decimus Burton.{{cite book|title=Entry for Burton, Decimus: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography}}
There are two blue plaques on York Terrace East, at the Doric Villa at Nos. 19 and 20, for the psychoanalyst Ernest Jones{{cite web |title=Dr Ernest Jones {{!}} Psychoanalyst {{!}} Blue Plaques |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/dr-ernest-jones/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=15 April 2020}} and the actor-manager Sir Charles Wyndham respectively.{{cite web |title=Charles Wyndham {{!}} Actor {{!}} Blue Plaques |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/charles-wyndham/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=15 April 2020}}{{NHLE|desc=Doric Villa|num=1357399|access-date=10 August 2020}}
References
{{commonscat multi|York Terrace West|York Terrace East}}
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{{Source-attribution|Thomas Hosmer Shepherd's 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 (1827)}}
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Category:Decimus Burton buildings
Category:Houses in the City of Westminster
Category:James Burton (property developer) buildings
Category:John Nash (architect) buildings