| Gloucester Gate | |
|---|---|
 Gloucester Gate | |
| Location | Regent's Park |
| Coordinates | 51°32′05″N0°08′50″W / 51.5346°N 0.1473°W Coordinates: 51°32′05″N0°08′50″W / 51.5346°N 0.1473°W |
| Built | 1827 |
| Architect | John Nash |
Listed Building – Grade I | |
| Designated | 14 May 1974 |
| Reference no. | 1078322 |
  Shown in Westminster | |
Gloucester Gate is a residential facility in Regent's Park, London. It is a Grade I listed building. [1]
The building was designed by John Nash and built by Richard Mott, being completed in 1827. [1] The building, which features a range of fluted pilasters of the Ionic order on pedestal bases, was originally built as eleven terraced houses. [2] No. 6 was the home of the pharmaceutical entrepreneur, Sir Henry Wellcome, [3] while No. 15 was the home of the author, W. W. Jacobs. [4]
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The Kingston House estate and Ennismore Gardens in Knightsbridge is a green, dual-character area within the western limits of the City of Westminster in London. The first-named is immediately south of Hyde Park, London taking up the park's semi-panorama row of 8 to 13 Princes Gate (demolished) and otherwise, as to more of its wings, set around the east of Princes Gate Garden including a terrace of houses №s 1 to 7 Bolney Gate. The second-named is a garden square of 59 tall creamy-white terraced houses and the approach road to Prince of Wales Gate, Hyde Park as well as the identical-size public, square green of the church that is since 1956 the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of the Dormition of the Mother of God and All Saints facing which green are its anomalous outlier row for a London garden square, №s 61 to 66. The relatively small, broad-fronted house set against the Consulate-used pairing at №s 61 to 62 is № 60 and as with the other 65 numbers of Ennismore Gardens is a listed building.