The Queen's Cottage
THE QUEEN'S COTTAGE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262486
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Queen's Cottage
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUEEN'S COTTAGE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- II*
- List Entry Number:
- 1262486
- Date first listed:
- 10-Jan-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The Queen's Cottage
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE QUEEN'S COTTAGE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE QUEEN'S COTTAGE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Greater London Authority
- District:
- Richmond upon Thames (London Borough)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TQ 17907 76250
Details
TQ 17 NE 1/3
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW
The Queen's Cottage
(Formerly listed as The Queen's Cottage, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS)
10.1.50
II*
Circa 1772. Said to have been designed by Queen Charlotte. Timber framing filled with brick. Gabled thatched roof. Two storeys with full-height projecting central wing flanked by single storey porches, with hipped, thatched roofs. Windows mullioned and transomed in timber. Used by Queen Charlotte and the Princesses as a Summer house and kept by Queen Victoria for her own use until 1897. Central room upstairs painted by Princess Elizabeth in early C19 to represent interior of a bower.
Listing NGR: TQ1885277464
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 434600
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 485
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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