Chester Terrace, NW1

The elegant and exclusive Nash terraces of Chester Terrace, alongside the eastern edge of Regent’s Park, have proved irresistible to film-makers.

Among the screen characters who live here are: The Nanny (Bette Davis, acting as a scary Mary Poppins to the kiddies) in Hammer’s The Nanny, rich girl Fenella (Hayley Mills) in the dated Agatha Christie mystery Endless Night and it’s seen in Edward Dmytryk’s 1955 adaptation of Graham Greene’s novel The End of the Affair. Gertrude Lawrence (Julie Andrews) faces bankruptcy here in Star! (Robert Wise’s ill-fated attempt to recapture the magic of The Sound of Music) and blackmailer Dennis Price calls on a victim at the opening of Fifties black comedy The Naked Truth.

SS troops march though the terrace’s gate in Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo’s disturbing fake documentary about the UK under Nazi rule, It Happened Here. The Ministry’s ‘mobile HQ’ (a double-decker London bus) trundles past the terraces in The Avengers. Watch Robert Redford driving to the CIA HQ in Tony Scott’s Spy Game, and you’ll recognise the Nash terraces masquerading as ‘Washington DC’.

The Nanny (1965, dir: Seth Holt)
Endless Night (1971, dir: Sidney Gilliat)
The End Of The Affair (1955, dir: Edward Dmytryk)
Star! (1968, dir: Robert Wise)
The Naked Truth (1957, dir: Mario Zampi)
It Happened Here (1965, dir: Kevin Brownlow, Andrew Mollo)
The Avengers (1998, dir: Jeremiah H Chechik}
Spy Game (2001, dir: Tony Scott)