The grade I listed residence in Regent’s Park is on sale for £13.95m through Aston ChasePorticoed pavilions and stucco-fronted façades give Hanover Terrace a reputation as the finest and grandest of Sir John Nash’s Regent’s Park terraces. Nash, George IV’s favourite architect, was commissioned to design the terraces in 1822, and in almost two centuries the grade I listed palatial strip has been a destination that has attracted the great, the good and the very wealthy. Sir John Nash’s Hanover houses are best known for their beautiful first-floor drawing roomsFor 13 years No 13 was the home of HG Wells, the prolific writer nominated four times for the Nobel prize for literature, and best known for his works The War of the Worlds, The Island of Doctor Moreau and The Time Machine. Dubbed the “father of science fiction”, Wells bought the property four doors down from the composer Vaughan Williams, and

Source: The Times December 04, 2020 00:05 UTC