KEW OBSERVATORY
List Entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: KEW OBSERVATORY
List entry Number: 1357729
Location
KEW OBSERVATORY, OLD DEER PARK
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Greater London Authority
District: Richmond upon Thames
District Type: London Borough
Parish:
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: I
Date first listed: 10-Jan-1950
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 205571
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List entry Description
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History
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Details
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5028 OLD DEER PARK
Kew Observatory
TQ 1775 8/1 10.1.50
I
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Designed by Sir William Chambers. Built 1768-9 when Dr Stephen Demainbray, a tutor
to the royal family, persuaded George III to take an interest in a transit of Venus.
Chambers conceived the design in terms of a small villa with canted bays on the north
and south fronts creating a pair of conjoined octagonal rooms on one axis. Apart
from the raising of the side roofs to the level of the observing chamber sometime
after 1884 the building remains unaltered.
Three storeys, including basement. Stuccoed. Five windows wide; staircase either
side of first floor entrance. Basement rusticated. Cornices above first and second
floors. Balustraded parapet. Square headed, moulded windows, some pedimented. Dome
to roof, carrying observatory equipment.
Interior not seen.
(See - John Harris, Sir William Chambers. 1968. Zwemmer.)
Listing NGR: TQ1715975781
Selected Sources
Books and journals
Harris, J, Sir William Chambers Knight of the Polar Star, (1970)
Other
Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in England, Part 17 Greater London
National Grid Reference: TQ 17159 75781
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