CHAPTER 9: CARLTON HOUSE TERRACE AND CARLTON GARDENS When
Carlton House was pulled down the development of the site was
considered in conjunction with a scheme for the improvement of
St. James's Park. For this John Nash prepared a plan showing
three terraces of houses along the north of the Park and three
of unequal size along the south where the Wellington Barracks
now stand. Two of the northern terraces were erected, being the
Carlton House Terrace East and West of to-day, but those on the
southern portion were not proceeded with and the proposals for
forming a quadruple avenue in The Mall were modified, though
improvements of a similar character were subsequently carried
out for the Victoria Memorial. The Park itself Nash laid out in
the Repton manner breaking up the straight lines of the canal
into the present lake with islands. The two blocks of terrace
houses were designed by Nash and their erection superintended by
James Pennethorne. Nash intended to link these two blocks by
building a large domed foun