EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE

EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, OUTER CIRCLE NW1

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Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266279
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE
Statutory Address:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, OUTER CIRCLE NW1

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1266279
Date first listed:: 05-Feb-1970
List Entry Name:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE
Statutory Address 1:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address 2:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address 3:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS NW1

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:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, OUTER CIRCLE NW1
Statutory Address:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, REGENT'S PARK NW1
Statutory Address:: EAST TUNNEL BENEATH ROADWAY OF OUTER CIRCLE, ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS NW1

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

County:: Greater London Authority
District:: City of Westminster (London Borough)
Parish:: Non Civil Parish
National Grid Reference:: TQ 28174 83560

Details

TQ 2883 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS 6/5 REGENT'S PARK NW1 5.2.70 East tunnel beneath roadway of outer circle - II Pedestrian tunnel beneath road. c 1829, by Decimus Burton for the Zoological Society. Brick vaulted with stucco faced entrance on south side. Semi-circular archway with stucco voussoirs and balustraded parapet between piers; screen wall and pediment above, probably added by Salvin, the Society's architect in the 1860s. Decimus Burton landscaped the gardens and designed the original zoo buildings for the Society from 1826 - 41, influenced by the Paris Jardin des Plantes.

Listing NGR: TQ2817483560

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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.