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Carlton House Terrace is a street in the St James's district of the City of Westminster in London. Its principal architectural feature is a pair of terraces, the Western and Eastern terraces, of white stucco-faced houses on the south side of the street, which overlook The Mall and St. James's Park.
Carlton House Terrace itself was designed and built by John Nash, the successful Regency architect, between 1827 and 1833. The freehold of Number 5 belongs to the Crown Estate [ 5 ] and the lease was held by the Earls of Caledon from 1830 until 1929, and its residents included Lord Palmerston ; John Hay , the U.S. Ambassador ; Emerald, Lady ...
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square.Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar.
Carlton House, sometimes Carlton Palace, was a mansion in Westminster, best known as the town residence of King George IV, particularly during the regency era and his time as prince regent. It faced the south side of Pall Mall , and its gardens abutted St James's Park [ a ] in the St James's district of London.
The work was completed in January 2011 and the new spaces include a new 150-seat Wolfson Auditorium are available for public hire. In addition to offices for its staff 10 - 11 Carlton House Terrace is used for academy conferences and events [7] and parts of the building are available on a private hire basis for events. [8]
The column is set at the top of a monumental flight of steps forming a break in Carlton House Terrace, The ensemble was designed by architect John Nash as an emphatic southern termination of his Via Triumphalis from Regent's Park to Westminster, envisaged and mostly realised 1815–1820.
The Carlton House Fête was hosted on 19 June 1811 by the Prince Regent, the future George IV, at his London residence Carlton House. [1] Ostensibly held to honour the exiled Louis XVIII and French royal family , it functioned as a celebration of the establishment of George as Regent on behalf of his father George III . [ 2 ]
The "Fonthill Casket", an iron cassone, damascened with gold and silver: the first of Morrison's commissions from the Spanish metalworker Plácido Zuloaga. Morrison's houses at Fonthill and on Carlton House Terrace, Westminster, contained Persian carpets, Chinese porcelain, Greek gems and gold work, and miniatures.