Perimeter walls and railings including entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road

The perimeter walls and railings of Kensal Green Cemetery, including the entrance gateway opposite Wakeman Road, were built between 1831 and 1833 by John William Griffiths, who was the Surveyor to the General Cemetery Company. The walls are made of yellow-grey-plum stock brick and stand approximately 4 to 5 metres high, constructed in alternating courses of headers and stretchers. The northern side, facing Harrow Road, features a Portland stone coping. The wall has projecting engaged piers topped with shallow pyramidal copings made of Portland stone, and the outer face of the wall has sloping Portland stone coping leading to a lower level. High on the outer wall, there is a sequence of numbered Portland stone tablets.

The western entrance gates are made of cast iron with spearhead rails and are positioned between Portland stone piers in Square 183 of the cemetery. There are also central entrance gates, which are disused, located in Square 80. These gates consist of a pair of cast iron gates with spearhead rails set between two hollow cast iron piers, each topped with an eared pediment and flanked by runs of spearhead rails set into granite kerbs.

The southern perimeter features cast iron railings that are approximately 2 metres tall, alternating with stretches of brick wall that are about 3 metres tall. The railings, which have spearhead finials, are supported by cast iron brackets in a scrolled anthemion design, mounted on a dwarf brick wall with Portland stone coping. Some sections of the railings were missing at the time of inspection. There are two disused gateways along the southern side, located in Squares 20 and 82, each with hollow cast iron piers that have eared pediments, with some parts missing at the time of inspection in 1998.