Principal Entrance Gates and Railings Fronting Kew Green, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew is a Grade II* listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 May 1983. Gates, railings.
Principal Entrance Gates and Railings Fronting Kew Green, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- WRENN ID
- hollow-jade-sepia
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Richmond Park MP: Sarah Olney (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 May 1983
- Type
- Gates, railings
- Address
- Principal Entrance Gates and Railings Fronting Kew Green, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, TW9 3AB
- OS grid reference
- TQ 187 775
- Coordinates
- 51.48443, -0.29134
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The principal entrance gates and railings fronting Kew Green at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew were designed by Decimus Burton in 1848, with ironwork crafted by Walker of Rotherham. The gates feature a foliated and scrolled design, highlighted by an armorial centre-piece, and are set within a mitred framework that includes two rows of anthemion pattern dog-rail. An elaborate overthrow adds to their grandeur. There are matching single side entrance gates, all positioned between Portland stone piers adorned with garlanded panels created by John Heming Jnr. The central piers are topped with vases that were originally part of an earlier pair of entrance gates to Kew Palace. The spear-headed railings include a smaller, closely-set spearheaded dog-rail that forms a quadrant on either side of the entrance, terminating in coupled, fused Portland stone piers with urns.
Local climate
Principal Entrance Gates and Railings Fronting Kew Green, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 90% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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