Cambridge Gate

Cambridge Gate
General information
TypeResidential
Architectural style
Renaissance revival
LocationLondon, England
Coordinates51°31′37″N 0°08′43″W / 51.526815°N 0.145373°W / 51.526815; -0.145373
Completed
1877
Design and construction
ArchitectsArcher & Green
Listed Building – Grade II
Official name
Numbers 1-10 and Attached Railings
Designated14 May 1974
Reference no.1244289

Cambridge Gate is a terrace of ten houses on the eastern side of Regent's Park in London. The terrace along with the gates and railings are Grade II listed.

History and description

The houses were built on the former site of Decimus Burton's London Colosseum. Following its demolition in 1875, it was built as an addition to Cambridge Terrace to its north, they were designed by Archer & Green in a high Victorian French Renaissance style. The architects ensured Cambridge Gate neatly mirrored its neighbour, with its string courses remaining parallel; both are named for Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, one of George IV's brothers.

Of a bath stone facing, rare in London, the houses are of a unique style among the many terraces around Regent's Park which are otherwise typical of Regency tastes, with their long fronts of unified stucco facades. Its design likely inspired the large mansion block of Harley House on Marylebone Road, by Boehmer & Gibbs, two former assistants of Archer & Green.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Numbers 1-10 and Attached Railings, Non Civil Parish - 1244289 | Historic England". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
  2. ↑ "The Colosseum | British History Online". www.british-history.ac.uk. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
  3. ↑ Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher, eds. (1995). The London encyclopaedia (Rev. ed.). London: Macmillan. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-333-57688-5.
  4. ↑ Cherry, Bridget; Pevsner, Nikolaus, eds. (2002), London. 3: North West / by Bridget Cherry and Nikolaus Pevsner (1. publ. by Yale Univ. Press ed.), Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, p. 622, ISBN 978-0-300-09652-1
  5. ↑ Gray, A. Stuart (1985). Edwardian Architecture: A Biographical Dictionary. London: Wordsworth Editions. p. 29. ISBN 0-7156-2141-6.