Richmond Palace Wall

RICHMOND PALACE WALL

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Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379965
Date first listed:
10-Jan-2000
List Entry Name:
Richmond Palace Wall
Statutory Address:
RICHMOND PALACE WALL

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Official list entry

Heritage Category:
Listed Building
Grade:
II
List Entry Number:
1379965
Date first listed:
10-Jan-2000
List Entry Name:
Richmond Palace Wall
Statutory Address 1:
RICHMOND PALACE WALL

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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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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.

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Location

Statutory Address:
RICHMOND PALACE WALL

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 17572 74858

Details

TQ 1774 NE RICHMOND PALACE WALL

22/20/10109

GV II


Garden wall, early C16, formerly dividing the Privy Garden and Privy Orchard of Richmond Palace, built 1498 - 1501 for Henry VII, repaired from C18, raised 1938-9. Red brown brick in English bond, c 4.5 m high. Chamfered brick coping above courses of dentil and dog- tooth brick work. Probably C20 inserted round arched and square headed openings, now blocked. Wall raised by 2.3 m in 1938-9 in stock brick with crenellations. Southern end of separate build on different alignment, brown brick, some in Flemish bond, repaired. Northern end, obscured behind lean to garden building, at break in C16 walling.

Prince Henry's Richmond, Sabine Eiche, Apollo, Nov. 1998
Richmond Palace Surrey, An Archaeological Post- Excavation Assessment, Museum of London Archaeological Service, June 1998
An Archaeological Survey of Richmond Palace, Surrey, B.Cowie, J.Cloake, Post Mediaeval Archaeology, forthcoming, 2000


Listing NGR: TQ1759274843

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479433
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Sources

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Eiche, S, Apollo in Prince Henrys Richmond November, (1998)

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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.

Ordnance survey map of Richmond Palace Wall

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