Gloucester Crescent, Camden
Photograph of the crescent in 2016 | |
| Type | Italianate style |
|---|---|
| Area | Primrose Hill |
| Location | London |
| Quarter | Camden |
| Postal code | NW1 |
| Construction | |
| Completion | 1840s |
| Other | |
| Designer | Henry Bassett |
| Known for | Britain's, so-called, cleverest street |
Gloucester Crescent is an 1840s Victorian residential crescent in Camden Town in London which from the early 1960s gained a bohemian reputation as “the trendiest street in London” and "Britain's cleverest street" when it became home for many British writers, artists and intellectuals including Jonathan Miller, George Melly, Alan Bennett and Alice Thomas Ellis.
Gloucester Crescent was designed in the Italianate style by the architect Henry Bassett, and completed in the 1840s. It runs off the nearby Oval Road. Many of the homes on the crescent are Grade II listed buildings including no. 23, the terraces nos. 3 to 22 and 24 to 29, and nos. 60 and 61.
The London branch of the School of Sound Recording is located in The Rotunda at 42 Gloucester Crescent.