Chester Terrace

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Chester Terrace is a street in Camden, London. By car it can be entered only from Regents Park "Outer Circle" road. By foot it can also be reached from Albany Street.

All 42 houses on this street are Grade I listed buildings, designed by John Nash (architect) and built by James Burton in 1825. Five of the houses are semi-detached. There are huge Corinthian arches at either end. On top of the arches are the words "Chester Terrace" on a blue background, probably the largest street signs in London. The street has the longest unbroken facade in the Regents Park area, though probably the least decorated of those by Nash. Most of the houses have a garage at the back and some have internal lifts. All have 3 floors plus a lower ground floor. House prices are in excess of four million pounds.

The official address of Nash House in 3 Chester Terrace, but the main entrance is on Chester Row. On the west side of this building is a bust of John Nash, looking identical to the bust on All Souls Church, Langham Place. There are two blue plaques on the street, one for Charles Robert Cockerell and one for John Salmond. Somewhere in this street John Profumo lived in 1963. His mistress Christine Keeler, later lived in Chester Close North, which is only 100 yards away. An episode of The Avengers (TV series) used this location in the episode called "You'll Catch your Death" (1968). It was also featured in the 1997 film version of "Keep The Aspidistra Flying". The street is mentioned in the book "All Roads Lead to Calvary" by Jerome K. Jerome. He used the location again in the story "Malvina of Brittany".