Privy Garden is a Grade II listed building in the Richmond upon Thames local planning authority area, England. A Early Modern Garden.
Privy Garden
- WRENN ID
- hollow-hinge-alder
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Richmond upon Thames
- Constituency
- Twickenham MP: Munira Wilson (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Garden
- Period
- Early Modern
- Address
- Privy Garden, Hampton Court
- OS grid reference
- TQ 157 683
- Coordinates
- 51.40278, -0.3377
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Privy Garden at Hampton Court, dating possibly from around 1700, features ten lead vases. These vases are decorated with gadrooning and have foliated handles topped with naked female figures. They also include a band of foliage with masks. The vases are set on Portland stone bases and are arranged along the terrace and on the stairways on either side.
Local climate
Privy Garden 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 83% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- 1 Group of Five Vases and Base, About 20 Yards West of Wimpole Hall
- 2 Pair of Vases at Ends of Terrace on West Front of Biddick Hall
- 3 Pair of Ornamental Vases Flanking Main Avenue to Wentworth Woodhouse West Front Approximately 130 Metres West of House
- 4 Pair of Vases Immediately to South-South-East of Tor Royal
- 5 Stone Vase on East Bank of gardens at Powis Castle
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