Tunnel Under Hampton Court Road Near Its Junction with Hogarth Way is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. Tunnel.
Tunnel Under Hampton Court Road Near Its Junction with Hogarth Way
- WRENN ID
- second-rafter-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Tunnel
- OS grid reference
- TQ 142 694
- Coordinates
- 51.41234, -0.35815
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The tunnel under Hampton Court Road, located near its junction with Hogarth Way, dates from the mid to late 18th century and is possibly designed by Capability Brown. It was likely constructed to create a direct route from Garrick's Villa to Garrick's Shakespeare Temple. The tunnel features battered sides made of flint nodules and has a segmental arched vault lined with slag. The southern end of the tunnel is designed to resemble the entrance of a picturesque grotto.
Local climate
Tunnel Under Hampton Court Road Near Its Junction with Hogarth Way 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 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 61% 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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