Palm House To Nuffield Lodge

TQ 2782 NW CITY OF WESTMINSTER PRINCE ALBERT ROAD, NWl 23/3 (west side) Palm House to Nuffield 17.9.81 Lodge G.V. II * Palm house. c1824 by Decimus Burton as part of a continuous group with the stabling, designed as a screen against "unpleasant objects" in relation to the villa. Glass and iron on brick plinth with a flight of stone steps and backed by a tendered wall. The iron and glass frame forms quarter-ellipsed with close-set glazing bars of umbrella-like construction, carved on 3 concentric T-section purlins each supported at intervals by standards. Glazed barred vaulted entrance fronted by attenuated columns with moulded lintel and segmental, radial glazed, fanlight-pediment. This palm house is one of Burton's first experiments in the structural use of iron and glass.

Listing NGR: TQ2725782921