RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE

RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262671
Date first listed:: 25-May-1983
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE
Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1262671
Date first listed:: 25-May-1983
List Entry Name:: RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE
Statutory Address 1:: RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW, KEW GREEN, RICHMOND UPON THAMES, TW9 3AB

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.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

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.

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Location

Statutory Address:: RETAINING WALL OF POND IN FRONT OF PALM HOUSE, 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 18704 77026

Details

This list entry was subject to a Minor Amendment on 04/10/2017

TQ 1877 9/53 TQ 1876 10/53

ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS KEW Retaining wall of pond in front of Palm House

(Formerly listed as Retaining wall of pond in front of Palm House, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS)

II 1847 by W.E Nesfield who also designed the four main vistas (Broad Walk, Holly Walk, Pagoda Vista and Cedar Vista). Surmounted by 26 buff terracotta urns and vases.

Listing NGR: TQ1870477026

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Legacy System number:: 434367
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Malden, H E, The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Volume III, (1911), 485
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Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London

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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.