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Private and prestigious, commanding views over 487 acres of royal parkland and gardens, the
property was built originally in 1875, and has been carefully restored and
completely refurbished to provide one of the largest lateral penthouse apartments over three floors with
an internal passenger lift and terraces overlooking Regent’s Park.
Extending to approximately 5,737 square feet (533
square meters), the flexible accommodation is made up of 5
bedrooms, 4 receptions rooms and 5 bathrooms with private terraces and balconies as well as resident’s
parking and a private garage.
7 Cambridge Gate is a unique property with exceptional services to provide an essentially effortless
and stylish way of life.
Entrance Hall / Drawing Room Dining Room / TV Room / Family
Room / Kitchen / Plant Room / Lift AV Room / Utility Room / Large
Master Suite with a Walk in Dressing Room and Large Ensuite Bathroom / 3 Large Bedrooms all with Ensuites / 1 Single Bedroom with EnSuite / Study / Gallery /
2 External Terraces / 2 Balconies Resident’s Parking / Garage
128 years 9 months Lease from the Crown Estate
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King’s CrossSt Pancras
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Russell Square
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TottenhamCourt Road
Holborn
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Regent’sPark
OxfordCircus
GoodgeStreet
BondStreet
MarbleArch
BakerStreet
EdgwareRoad
St. John’sWood
Regent’sPark
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PrimroseHill
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ChalkFarm
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WarwickAvenue London
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Cambridge Gate enjoys the quiet seclusion and security that comes with overlooking one of Central London’s largest parks.
The address falls within the boundary of Regent’s Park, making it the only park in Central London with residential presence.
The City of London is approximately 3.2 miles drive to the East and the West End approximately 2.2 miles to the South. Mayfair hosts some of the world’s finest shops along Bond Street (approx. 1.1 miles), Regent Street (approx. 1.2 miles) and Oxford Street (approx. 1 mile) which are all less than a 25 minute walk.
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1827 saw the completion of the Colosseum, built to house a panorama of London, and was designed by Decimus Burton whose father, James, was John Nash’s highly valued building contractor – both men greatly helping him to start as an architect. Decimus was responsible for many fine pieces of architecture including the Palm House in Kew Gardens and the Giraffe House at London Zoo. After its initial huge success, the popularity of the Colosseum declined and, having stood empty for some time, it was demolished in 1875 and the construction of Cambridge Gate commenced on its site.
Designed by Thomas Archer and Arthur Green, future architects of the Hyde Park Hotel, this fine terrace of houses was financed by a consortium of investors including John Galsworthy, father of the novelist who wrote ‘The Forsyte Sage’. Named with Cambridge Terrace after Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge and seventh son of George III. Cambridge Gate is a confident display of the French Second Empire style and an architectural reaction to the rather staid ‘Kensington Italianate’ manner of most mid-Victorian development. The design combines great height with an incredible
concentration of detail and elegant architectural embellishments, in particular the stylized honeysuckle motif known from ancient times as the ‘anthemion’.
Clad in honey-coloured Bath stone, the façade harmonized with the original buff and Portland stone stucco of Nash’s existing buildings and mixed well with the rest of his grand scheme. Interestingly, Cambridge Gate was one of the last London buildings and mixed well with the rest of his grand scheme. Interestingly, Cambridge Gate was one of the last London buildings constructed with carriages in mind, hence the drive which sweeps in directly from this Royal Park to the front of the terrace, entered through its boundary balustrade, complete with garland-bearing maidens.
In 1946, like many other London buildings, Nos. 1, 2, 6 & 7 were used as temporary Government offices. Cambridge Gate’s very existence was at risk for a number of years but the merits of its exuberant design are now fully appreciated and it is being sympathetically restored and its architectural attributes repaired, reinstating this as one of London’s most distinctive terraces.
Regent’s Park – like St. James’s and Hyde Park, was monastic farmland for five hundred years until Henry VIII took it over in 1539 as a hunting preserve. It was not until the 1790s that John Fordyce, Surveyor General for the Crown Lands, realized that some 500 acres afforded the Crown an exceptional opportunity to enrich the appearance of the capital and so a competition was held to determine the best design for the new estate.
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A unique opportunity to buy a substantial
residential property, in the most exclusive part
of central London.
Price on Application
Stephen Lindsay [email protected]
020 3043 360207870 999 579
PA. Chloë [email protected]
020 3043 3606
Savills St John’s Wood15 St John’s Wood
High StreetLondon NW 8 7NG
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