The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens is a Grade II listed building in the Bromley local planning authority area, England. Garden terraces. 2 related planning applications.
The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens
- WRENN ID
- bitter-gravel-mint
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge MP: Liam Conlon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden terraces
- Address
- The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens, Crystal Palace Park Se19, SE20 8DT
- OS grid reference
- TQ 340 711
- Coordinates
- 51.42319, -0.07381
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens are located in Crystal Palace Park, Penge. The Crystal Palace was designed by Sir Joseph Paxton for the Great Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park and was later dismantled and rebuilt on this site between 1852 and 1854. Although the building itself was destroyed by fire in 1936, the two terraces of the formal garden in front remain. These terraces were also designed by Paxton during the rebuilding. Each terrace features a series of round-headed arches with semi-circular semi-domed niches arranged in groups of three, separated by taller pilasters that extend up into a balustrade. The balustrade has a similar design of narrow round-headed arches, with the taller pilasters topped by vases or statues. There are flights of steps leading down from each terrace at intervals, and the area between the terraces is decorated with fountains and statues.
Local climate
The Upper and Lower Terrace of the Crystal Palace Gardens sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 82% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 33 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 55% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
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